The Nutri-Score is alive...
...which can be seen from the fact that the Nutri-Score Steering Committee has adopted an update of the calculation basis for beverages, which will apply from 1.1.2024.
Short notes - Kurz notiert (06/23)
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
Short notes - Kurz notiert (06/23)
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
Krótkie notatki - Short notes (06/23)
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
AGROLAB RADAR and ChatGPT?
Currently, a discussion is developing around the AI-based application ChatGPT by the American company OpenAI and similar text machines. Of course, we have also considered to what extent we could have the RADAR created by an AI-based software in the future.
Analytical News: New DNA sequencing method introduced for crustaceans
Our molecular biology department at AGROLAB LUFA in Kiel has successfully expanded its range of identification methods. With the help of the new DNA sequencing procedure, crustaceans (Crustaceae) can now also be identified clearly and quickly.
Analytical News: New pesticide package for polar pesticides
The laboratory team for pesticide analysis at AGROLAB LUFA has developed a new multi-method for the determination of polar pesticides (anions) that promises significant advantages for our customers compared to previous methods.
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). Via this link you can download a table from the European Rapid alert system (RASFF) with important notifications from product category fruit & vegetables.
Fruit & vegetables: Actual 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. Critical results with respect to max. residue level
Update on the French import ban on cherries
The French government issued an import ban on fresh cherries on 25.3.2023. We reported on this in the previous issue of AGROLAB RADAR (April 2023). The decision has now been amended.
No further EU approval for Oxamyl
The approval of the active substance Oxamyl, which belongs to the carbamates and was used as an insecticide, will not be renewed. The EU Commission has announced the non-renewal of the authorisation of Oxamyl
Nitrosamines in food cause concerns
This is the conclusion reached by EFSA in its assessment of the risk to public health associated with the presence of nitrosamines in food. Ten nitrosamines found in food are carcinogenic and genotoxic.
Alert notices from RASFF concerning food (except for fruit & vegetables - see special section)
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.
EU Monitoring Programme for Pesticide Residues 2024-2026
The EU monitoring programme for pesticide residues in food is designed to ensure compliance with maximum levels and assess the risk of exposure for European consumers through a Community test plan that is updated annually. Commission Regulation 2023/731 of 3 April 2023 established the programme for the period 2024-2026.
Short notes - Kurz notiert (05/23)
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
Short notes - Kurz notiert (05/23)
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
"International Conference on GMO Analysis and New Genomic Techniques"
"Times are changing and we are changing with them".
This sentence characterised the conference.
Work - learn the language - arrive in Germany
AGROLAB offers its employees with a migration background free German courses, once a week and directly at the workplace.
AGROLAB Ibérica obtains accreditation for melamine determination in food and feed products
Melamine is an organic compound that has historically appeared as an illegal additive in food and feed. However, it can also unintentionally enter food through food contact materials such as plastic items, can linings, paper, cardboard and adhesives.
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). Via this link you can download a table from the European Rapid alert system (RASFF) with important notifications from product category fruit & vegetables.
Fruit & vegetables: Actual 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.