Food News
Hier finden Sie Kurznachrichten aus dem Lebensmittelsektor.
Here you will find news in brief from the food sector.
Last month, the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) issued a warning about genetically modified papaya. We may have been the laboratory that discovered this unauthorised admixture in a bag of fresh papaya cubes.
EU Regulation 2024/2711 has reduced the maximum permissible levels for the active substance thiacloprid, which was already banned in 2020. The new limits will apply from 12 May 2025.
Following the first hype surrounding Dubai chocolate and given that it is sold at prices that cannot be justified even by the high cost of pistachios, it was inevitable that food inspectors would take a very close look at these products.
There are plans to introduce maximum levels for non-dioxin-like PCBs (NDC-PCBs) in other foods of animal origin.
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in laboratory AGROLAB LUFA (Kiel, Germany).
Residues of the persistent chemicals PFAS and their degradation product TFA have been detected in many European wines.
AESAN warns about the risk of botulism in vacuum-packed or modified atmosphere packaged foods.
Stefan Balkaran successfully defended his master's thesis at the Faculty of Chemistry and Analytical Sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam with a presentation in front of his university examiners Dr. Jeroen Kool and Dr. Isabelle Kohler and an audience of another 40 interested fellows .
This Japanese condiment is as much a part of sashimi, sushi and other dishes as soy sauce and pickled ginger. Real wasabi (Eutrema japonicum) is rare, expensive and often replaced by horseradish paste.
Here we provide you with a monthly retrospective and selective summary of relevant reports from the European rapid alert system RASFF.
Regulation (EU) 2025/787 of 24 April 2025 extended the authorisations of active substances used in plant protection products.
The EU Commission plans to introduce maximum levels for the sum of 3-MCPD (expressed as the sum of 3-MCPD fatty acid esters and free 3-MCPD) and glycidyl fatty acid esters in composite foods (end products).
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 client.
The two largest European dairy cooperatives, DMK Group (Germany) and Arla Foods (Denmark), plan to merge their operations.
Hier finden Sie Kurznachrichten aus dem Lebensmittelsektor.
Here you will find news in brief from the food sector.
Here we provide you with a monthly retrospective and selective summary of relevant reports from the European rapid alert system RASFF.
France renews the ban on the import, import and placing on the market of fresh fruit and vegetables from countries outside the European Union that have been treated with thiacloprid-based plant protection products
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.
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in laboratory AGROLAB LUFA (Kiel, Germany).
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 client.

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