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The EU Commission has shortened the approval period of several active substances with Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/856, as we have reported. Here is a note on cyanotraniliprole from the small print.
Authorisations for the following chemical active substances have been extended in the implementing regulation (EU) 2020/2007 of 8 December 2020:
The authorisation for the use of the active substance Mancozeb has expired. Residual stocks must be used up by 04.01.2022.
Checking of antibiotics presence in foodstuffs is a topic of primary interest in view of the increasing attention consumers are paying to animal welfare and to the quality of the food. Moreover, a reduction in these substances makes it possible to deal pragmatically with the phenomenon of drug resistance.
Even though only about 20% of German consumers have been medically diagnosed with lactose intolerance, 90% of all consumers regularly buy these products.
This code of practice gives detailed guidance on allergen management throughout the whole supply chain and also supplements the General Principles of Food Hygiene and the ongoing work on allergen labeling by the Codex Committee on Food Labelling.
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.
A study of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) found that 48% of the population view “superfoods” as part of a healthy diet, while 8% are linking risks with their consumption.
In November, voluntary use of the "Nutri-Score" developed in France was approved in Germany. But what about simplified nutrition information for food in the rest of Europe?
Regulation (EU) 2020/2040 now sets maximum levels for certain pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) in certain foods for the first time.
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The food notes are about the revision of the qs guidelines, antibiotics in veterinary medicine, Guidance for date marking, IT Tool food labeling and some more
We have successfully passed the audit conducted by the National Accreditation Body (ENAC) in accordance with UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for the determination of dietary fiber and fatty acid composition in feed, raw materials and foodstuffs.
The laboratory of instrumental tests developed the determination of sugars using the HPLC method and was positively evaluated by the Polish Centre for Accreditation.
Allergies cannot be cured, so a good food declaration is all the more important for those affected.
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 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 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.
The approach to import controls at the EU's external borders has been changed and supplemented by so-called risk profiles. This leads to changes in the regular import controls at Frankfurt airport, an important gateway for fruit and vegetables from third countries into the EU.
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 planning assumptions, for the period 2020-2024
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 CRISPR/Cas do not pose greater dangers than the "classic" plant breeding methods.
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.
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