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Supermarkt

EU-JRC study on changing food composition

Is our food getting healthier? Consumers are paying more attention to nutritional information, and not just because of the Nutri-Score® labelling on many products. Is our food getting healthier?...

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Cadmium

New EU maximum levels for lead and cadmium

The EU Contaminants Regulation (EU) 1881/2006 regulates, among other things, the maximum levels for heavy metals. The regulation has now been revised for lead and cadmium. The EU Contaminants...

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Corn

Ergot and ergot alkaloids - EU Regulation published

The EU maximum levels for ergot alkaloids and ergot sclerotia in certain cereals and cereal products have been published in Regulation (EU) 2021/1399. The EU maximum levels for ergot alkaloids...

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Tropanalkaloide

Tropane alkaloids - EU Regulation published

EU maximum levels for tropane alkaloids in certain foods have also now been published in Regulation (EU) 2021/1408. EU maximum levels for tropane alkaloids in certain foods have also now been...

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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...

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Pesto

Basil pesto in the consumer test

The Austrian consumer magazine VKI had 13 different pesto preparations from the grocery stores tested. Only the five organic products were free of pesticide residues. The Austrian consumer...

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Radar

Short notes - Kurz notiert (October)

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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Corn

GMO maize: Expansion of the testing spectrum

AGROLAB LUFA has expanded its portfolio to include additional GMO maize varieties. Our food and feed laboratory AGROLAB LUFA has expanded its portfolio to include additional GMO maize varieties....

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RASFF

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

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. Here we present a retrospective monthly...

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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. Up-to-date...

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Fruit and Vegetables: Approval for pesticide actives extended

The approval for the herbicides propoxacrabazone and clopyralid was extended. The term for the herbicides propoxycarabazon and clopyralid were extended. Propoxycarabazone was previously removed...

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Johannisbrot

Ethylene oxide was in carob flour

There was great excitement in early July 2021 after further findings of ethylene oxide/2-chloroethanol in various compound foods. Where did these residues come from? The EU working group has located...

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Fruit jelly bears with vitamins

Food supplements for children contain excessively high doses

Many parents think they are doing their children a favour by giving them additional vitamins and minerals in the form of nutritional supplements. The Bavarian Consumer Center has found that...

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Baby

Definition of "pesticide residues" in baby food changed

The clarification of the terminology has been planned and discussed for a long time. Now the EU Commission has presented two new regulations. The clarification of the terminology has been planned...

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Burger Patties

Study shows nutritional differences between meat substitutes and the original

Food technologists are using all the tricks of the food design toolbox to make burger patties made from vegetable raw materials similar in taste and texture to the original beef patty. Food...

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raw salmon

Organically bound arsenic perhaps not so harmless after all?

Arsenic occurs as an undesirable contaminant in drinking water, rice and fish, among other things, although there are also natural causes of elevated levels. Arsenic occurs as an undesirable...

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alert

Alert notices from RASFF concerning food: New ethylene oxide / 2-Chlorethanol alerts and no end in sight

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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Radar

Short notes - Kurz notiert (August)

Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages...The food notes are about pesticides, DIN draft for food deliveries, tomato paste and food fraud We...

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Medicine

AGROLAB LUFA adds avermectines to its veterinary drug residue portfolio

A further LC-MS analytical package has been validated for the monitoring of avermectine residues in milk & dairy products, meat and fish.                                                    A...

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RASFF

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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