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.
As part of the transnational governance of the Nutri-Score, the steering committee has finalised the process of revising the algorithm for calculating the Nutri-Score. The scientific committee's recommendations for beverages were adopted on 30 March 2023.
Mineral oil components can enter food in various ways, e.g. via packaging and lubricants in food production. They are analytically divided into the groups MOSH (Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbons) and MOAH (Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons).
AGROLAB LUFA announces that a new ELISA test for the detection of pecan nut has been successfully launched, validated and accredited.
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF).
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories.
The approval of the active ingredient dimoxystrobin, which was used as a fungicide, will no longer be renewed.
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 2021, the EU Member States established an "Alert and Cooperation Network" ("ACN"), which includes the online platform of the Rapid Alert System (iRASFF), from which we present important messages to you every month in our AGROLAB RADAR.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has proposed to the EU Commission to ban the production and marketing of perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS). A decision is not expected before 2025.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) published their assessments of the sweetener aspartame on July 13.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1510 amended the maximum permissible levels for cadmium for tiger nuts and certain cultivated mushrooms.
The two meat giants signed an agreement to work together in northern Germany.
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Deregulation of genetically modified organisms in food, feed and agriculture is being sought in the EU and also in the UK.
The microbiology lab team in Kiel announced that the serological typing of salmonellae has been successfully accredited by the DAkkS. Despite declining numbers, salmonella is the most common cause of foodborne illness outbreaks.
This is a commercial rapid test commonly used for screening for antibiotic inhibitors in milk. The so-called Delvotest®T is validated by the French AFNOR, but is only carried out in a few laboratories as an accredited method, ...
Water activity is one of the most important quality parameters in the food and pharmaceutical industries. This characteristic, abbreviated aw, is the ratio of the partial vapour pressure over the test sample to the partial vapour pressure over perfectly pure water.
Our team of analysts in the instrumental laboratory has successfully implemented the determination of acrylamide in food and has been accredited by the Polish Accreditation Centre.
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF).
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories. Critical results with respect to max. residue level