The general labelling obligation for surface treatment agents for fruit and vegetables in Germany was published without taking into account objections from the trade associations.
The general...
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 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...
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages...The food notes are about new guidelines for allergens in food, Nutri-Score labeling and EU monitoring...
Ethanol is an important industrial chemical. It can be produced by chemical synthesis or, as it has been for thousands of years, by alcoholic fermentation using special yeasts that grow on...
A couple of new analytical packages for the monitoring of veterinary drug residues in eggs, meat and dairy products have been established recently. Get more details in the article itself.
A...
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...
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...
With Regulation (EU) 2021/726 of 4 May 2021, the EU Commission shortened the approval period for the active substance flutriafol, as no extension application was submitted.
With Regulation (EU)...
The authorisation for the use of the active substance alpha-Cypermethrin has expired. Residual stocks must be used up by 12/07/2022.
The authorisation for the use of the active substance...
The approval for the following chemical agents was extended:
The duration for the active substances is usually extended by one year if the review of the authorisation takes longer than originally...
Attentive RADAR readers have already noticed: in the EU Rapid Alert System (RASFF), Salmonella and Campylobacter alerts in poultry products represent a high proportion.
Attentive RADAR readers...
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...
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages...The food notes are about new guidelines for allergens in food, Nutri-Score labeling and EU monitoring...
Purines are organic compounds and in the form of the purine bases adenine and guanine, they are important building blocks of DNA. Purines are mainly ingested in animal foods. However they are also...
In addition to the total arsenic content, AGROLAB LUFA now also determines the proportion of free, inorganic arsenic in foodstuffs, food supplements and also animal feed.
In addition to the total...
Metals such as arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury are important environmental pollutants, particularly in areas with high anthropogenic pressure. Their presence, even in traces can cause serious...
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and tropane alkaloids are secondary plant constituents that are undesirable in food and feed due to their harmful potential.
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and tropane alkaloids...
For years, sulfur dioxide and sulphites have been used as an effective additive to improve the preservation of multiple foods: beverages, preserves, sausages, dried fruit, fish and shellfish,...
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...
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...