Food News
The authorisation for the use of the following active substances will expire sooner than originally decided. As a rule the maximum residue limits are also subsequently reduced to the limit of determination.
Is our food getting healthier? Consumers are paying more attention to nutritional information, and not just because of the Nutri-Score® labelling on many products.
The EU Contaminants Regulation (EU) 1881/2006 regulates, among other things, the maximum levels for heavy metals. The regulation has now been revised for lead and cadmium.
The EU maximum levels for ergot alkaloids and ergot sclerotia in certain cereals and cereal products have been published in Regulation (EU) 2021/1399.
EU maximum levels for tropane alkaloids in certain foods have also now been published in Regulation (EU) 2021/1408.
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 Austrian consumer magazine VKI had 13 different pesto preparations from the grocery stores tested. Only the five organic products were free of pesticide residues.
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
The food notes are about European Agri-Food Fraud Network (FFN) report, Netherlands introduces NutriScore and many other exciting topics.
AGROLAB LUFA has expanded its portfolio to include additional GMO maize varieties.
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.
The approval for the herbicides propoxacrabazone and clopyralid was extended.
There was great excitement in early July 2021 after further findings of ethylene oxide/2-chloroethanol in various compound foods. Where did these residues come from? The EU working group has located the cause.
Many parents think they are doing their children a favour by giving them additional vitamins and minerals in the form of nutritional supplements.
The Bavarian Consumer Center has found that preparations for children contain too high a dosage, which entails health risks.
The clarification of the terminology has been planned and discussed for a long time. Now the EU Commission has presented two new regulations.
Food technologists are using all the tricks of the food design toolbox to make burger patties made from vegetable raw materials similar in taste and texture to the original beef patty.
Arsenic occurs as an undesirable contaminant in drinking water, rice and fish, among other things, although there are also natural causes of elevated levels.
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 pesticides, DIN draft for food deliveries, tomato paste and food fraud
A further LC-MS analytical package has been validated for the monitoring of avermectine residues in milk & dairy products, meat and fish.

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