The Directorate General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission (DG SANTE) has published the Management Plan on Health and Food Safety, where it describes political priorities and...
The European agricultural lobbyists received their Christmas present already in November. The European Food Safety Authority EFSA came to the conclusion that new genetic engineering methods such as...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has developed a tool to help food business operators decide when to apply the best before date or use by date to their products.
The European Food Safety...
Nine out of ten consumers in Germany like the new Nutri-Score label, which will enable them to distinguish between healthier and less healthy foods in the supermarket at a glance without having to...
The British authorities have already published which labelling requirements will apply to food products that are sold in the UK by EU-based manufacturers after 31.12.2020.
The British authorities...
The Dutch-British food giant not only sees a trend business in the meat and milk alternatives, but also sees a growing future market in the innovative vegetable substitute products
The...
Nomad Foods is probably less well known than its brands in the frozen food sector - Iglo and Findus
Nomad Foods is probably less well known than its brands in the frozen food sector - Iglo and...
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...
Since its foundation in 2017, the agricultural laboratory has been a partial member of the Federal of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations (FOSFA). Full membership was applied for in summer 2020 and...
AGROLAB GC FID has been given a second life in Tanzania. Use of modern analytical technology at the Mwenge University in Moshi.
AGROLAB GC FID has been given a second life in Tanzania. Use of...
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...
Dr. A. Verwey has developed a highly sensitive assay to detect and quantify ethylene oxide/2-chloro-ethanol traces in seeds and nuts.
Dr. A. Verwey has developed a highly sensitive assay to...
Our PCR team at AGROLAB LUFA in Kiel has developed a new animal species detection. We can now also detect kangaroo (family: Macropodidae).
Our PCR team at AGROLAB LUFA in Kiel has developed a new...
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.
AGROLAB LUFA...
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...
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...
Authorisations for the following chemical active substances have been extended in Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1511 of 16 October 2020:
Authorisations for the following chemical...
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.
The...
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.
Up-to-date information on changes to MRLs...
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...
The European Commission has published the Annual Report for 2019 on the European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF).
The European Commission has published the Annual Report for 2019 on...