Food News

baking bread

Homemade bread is in vogue

Not only because we spend more time at home due to the Corona pandemic, many of us now like to bake our daily bread ourselves once in a while. The mills offer many varied baking mixtures for this...

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Radar

Short notes - Kurz notiert (January)

Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages...The food notes are about the QS guidelines and checklists published for 2022, titanium dioxide as a...

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corn on the cob

Expansion of the GMO detection spectrum for maize / corn

AGROLAB LUFA is continuously expanding the spectrum of detection methods for genetically modified organisms.                                                                                         ...

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RASFF

Fruit and vegetables: Current postings on the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF)

Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented about remarkable results found in our own...

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Analytics

Fruit and vegetables: Current residue report from AGROLAB laboratories

Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories.                                           ...

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Tracktor in the field

Non-renewal of authorization for active pesticide ingredients

The authorisation for the fungicidal active substance Indoxacarb was no longer renewed.                                                                                                               ...

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Lettuce field

Fruit and Vegetables: Approval for pesticide actives extended

The duration of approval for cypermethrin and further nine actives has been extended.                                                                                                                ...

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colorful vegetables

Official food monitoring: Pesticide residues 06-08/21

The 2nd quarterly evaluation of the BVL on the official controls on pesticide residues in food for the period June - August 2021 in Europe is available.                                             ...

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Container

Intensified import controls in EU

The concept for import controls at the EU's external borders has been changed and supplemented by so-called risk profiles. This leads to changes in the regular import controls for food from third...

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Vitamin D

Vitamin D - often overdosed

In the spring of 2021, the German Consumer Organizations conducted a close examination of foods fortified with vitamin D and frequently found overdoses.(1) In the spring of 2021, the German...

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christmas cookies

Alarming results of the BVL in zoonosis monitoring

Zoonoses are infectious diseases transmissible from animal to human and from human to animal. The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) warns, among other things, of Shiga...

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herbs and spices

EU-wide survey about authenticity of culinary herbs and spices

The European Commission published the results of the first survey on the authenticity of herbs and spices launched by the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety and supported by the Joint...

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Alarm

Alert notices from RASFF concerning food

In this section we repeated alert notices from the RASFF system of the European commission issued in the previous month, which we thought to be noteworthy and of interest to our clients. In this...

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Muesli with milk

Nutritional information may not refer to a preparation

The German food company Dr.Oetker has been defeated at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the last instance. The German food company Dr.Oetker has been defeated at the European Court of...

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Radar

Short notes - Kurz notiert (December)

Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages...The food notes are about European Agri-Food Fraud Network (FFN) report, Netherlands introduces...

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RASFF

Fruit and vegetables: Current postings on the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF)

Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented about remarkable results found in our own...

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Analytics

Fruit and vegetables: Current residue report from AGROLAB laboratories

Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories.                                           ...

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Fruit

Change of Maximum Residue Level (MRL)

Up-to-date information on changes to MRLs for fruit and vegetables will be compiled here following their publication. However, we do not announce any EU projects of this kind.                       ...

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Radieschen

Still no maximum residue limits for radish leaves

Do you have a „déjà vue“ with this headline? Then you belong to the regular and particularly attentive readers of AGAROLAB RADAR. In July we had already reported on this topic. Do you have a...

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Waldpilze

Wild mushrooms still slightly contaminated with radioactivity

Mushroom lovers beware! Even 35 years after the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, elevated levels of caesium are still being measured in wild mushrooms in some regions. Mushroom lovers beware! Even...

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Kaffee

Trieste - Coffee Capital of Italy

Nowhere else in Italy people drink so much coffee as in the northern Italian port city. Nowhere else in Italy people drink so much coffee as in the northern Italian port city.   The "nero" is...

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