Nomad Foods is probably less well known than its brands in the frozen food sector - Iglo and Findus
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This month our short notes are about new EU-Organic law, MRL acrylamide in infant formulae, Human health risk assessment of aluminium, Veggie burger and Vegan Cheese and some others..
For a few years now in Italy, the ACCREDIA agency has been issuing the RT-11 production certification which regulates the presence of GMO-risk raw materials (soya, maize, rape, cotton and beet).
Dr. A. Verwey has developed a highly sensitive assay to detect and quantify ethylene oxide/2-chloro-ethanol traces in seeds and nuts.
Our PCR team at AGROLAB LUFA in Kiel has developed a new animal species detection. We can now also detect kangaroo (family: Macropodidae).
AGROLAB LUFA GmbH has changed its microbiological methods for the detection and quantification of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria spp in food to the RAPID`L.mono® technology.
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented with remarkable results found in our own laboratories in residue analysis.
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories.
Authorisations for the following chemical active substances have been extended in Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1511 of 16 October 2020:
The authorisation for the use of the active substance thiophanate-methyl has expired and, as a rule, the maximum residue limits are also subsequently reduced to the limit of determination.
Up-to-date information on changes to MRLs will be compiled here following their publication. However, we do not announce any EU projects of this kind.
In the current report of the BVL (Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety) and the RKI (Robert Koch Institute) on food-borne outbreaks in Germany in 2019, bacterial infections are listed as the main cause.
The European Commission has published the Annual Report for 2019 on the European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF).
One manufacturer thought he had found a new marketing trick and advertised food supplements with the promise that they would provide protection against infection with the coronavirus.
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
This month our short notes are about new EU-Organic law, MRL acrylamide in infant formulae, Human health risk assessment of aluminium, Veggie burger and Vegan Cheese and some others..
Real truffles are among the most sought-after edible mushrooms and can achieve top prices of up to 10,000 €/kg with good quality. It is an ideal candidate for adulteration, which is why it was selected as an example matrix for the development of analytical methods suitable for routine use in the "Foodprofiling" project.
Our PCR team at AGROLAB LUFA in Kiel has developed two new animal species detections. We can now also detect more exotic poultry: Ostrich (Struthio camelus) and pheasant (Phasianus colchicus).
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented with remarkable results found in our own laboratories in residue analysis.
The approval for the use of the active substance in Bromoxynil expires. The approval for Ethametsulfuron-methyl was denied. As a rule, the maximum residue limits are also subsequently reduced to the limit of determination.
In some regions in Germany, increased contents of the ergot fungus Claviceps purpurea could be detected in the grain of the 2020 harvest.
“MOAH should not be present in infant formula and follow-on formula” is the conclusion of the EFSA Standing Committee in their latest risk assessment in February 2020.