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The revision extends existing maximum levels to further animal foodstuffs that were not previously listed in the Regulation. The maximum levels for dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs for sheep meat are now also applied to goat meat.
The results of the Max-Rubner-Institute (MRI) for Cereal Safety and Quality on the mycotoxin contamination of the 2022 cereal harvest are available. While no major abnormalities were found in the 1500 wheat samples submitted for DON and ZEA, the 680 rye samples look poorer this year compared to last year with regard to ergot contamination.
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The food notes are about the mercury monitoring 2022, MRL proposals for veterinary drugs and other topics.
Finally, the 10th "Recent Advances in Food Analysis" (RAFA) conference was held in Prague.
In addition to the microbiological risks posed by human pathogenic bacteria, fungi and spoilage agents, increasing attention must also be paid to viruses in matters of food hygiene and consumer protection.
AGROLAB LUFA's range of services in the field of detection of genetically modified organisms in soya and Canola has been supplemented by further events.
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 use of the active ingredient penflufen is now only permitted for treating cereal seed.
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.
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
The food notes are about the mercury monitoring 2022, MRL proposals for veterinary drugs and other topics.
The "total milk" allergen test detects the two typical allergenic milk proteins ß-lactoglobulin and casein together.
Growing concern about antibiotic resistance 'forces' the extension of the search for pharmacologically active molecules also in eggs.
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.
Up-to-date information on changes to MRLs for fruit and vegetables will be compiled here following their publication. However, we do not announce any EU projects of this kind.
As of August 8, 2022, foods containing titanium dioxide (E 171) may no longer be marketed.
The EU Commission has set new maximum levels for other foods that may contain hydrocyanic acid (HCN), cyanides or cyanogenic glycosides to ensure that their consumption does not exceed the ARfD.
Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin produced by fungi of the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium and is present as a contaminant in food and its maximum permitted level in food is regulated within the EU.
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.
Ethylene oxide or 2-chloroethanol residues are found not only in food but also in food additives. Maximum residue limits have now been set for food additives.

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