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If products from countries outside the European Union do not comply with the valid import regulations with regard to plant protection product residues, suppliers have the option of applying for exemptions.
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 countries into the EU.
The German Society for Nutrition (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. (DGE), together with its partner organisations in Austria (ÖGE) and Switzerland (SGE), has updated the reference values for the daily intake of dietary fibres, pantothenic acid and magnesium.
Selenium is one of the essential trace elements and is involved in redox processes in the body, which is why it is often advertised as an anti-ageing miracle cure. On the other hand, it is toxic and carcinogenic in higher doses.
The working group "Microbiological guideline and warning values" of the DGHM (German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology) has adopted a recommendation for frozen fruit and two drafts for dried fruit/fruit powder and dried mushrooms.
Regulation (EU) 2021/2142 introduces maximum levels for the opium alkaloids morphine and codeine for poppy seeds and those containing poppy seeds.
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.
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 purpose.
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The food notes are about the QS guidelines and checklists published for 2022, titanium dioxide as a food additive and other topics.
AGROLAB LUFA is continuously expanding the spectrum of detection methods for genetically modified organisms.
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 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.
The authorisation for the fungicidal active substance Indoxacarb was no longer renewed.
The duration of approval for cypermethrin and further nine actives has been extended.
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.
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 countries into the EU.
In the spring of 2021, the German Consumer Organizations conducted a close examination of foods fortified with vitamin D and frequently found overdoses.(1)
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 toxin-forming E. coli (STEC).
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 Research Centre (JRC).
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.
The German food company Dr.Oetker has been defeated at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the last instance.
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