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Cup of tea

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and tropane alkaloids are secondary plant constituents that are undesirable in food and feed due to their harmful potential. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and tropane alkaloids...

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Smoked Salmon

For years, sulfur dioxide and sulphites have been used as an effective additive to improve the preservation of multiple foods: beverages, preserves, sausages, dried fruit, fish and shellfish,...

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RASFF

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...

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Analytics

Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories. Here we present a retrospective monthly...

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Agrar

The approval for the following chemical active ingredients was renewed in COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/566: The approval for the following chemical active ingredients was renewed...

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fruit basket

Up-to-date information on changes to MRLs will be compiled here following their publication. However, we do not announce any EU projects of this kind. Up-to-date information on changes to MRLs...

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Container

The concept for 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 for food from third...

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Think

With the "BfR Consumer Monitor", the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment regularly tries to determine how the public's trust in food safety is doing. With the "BfR Consumer Monitor", the...

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alert

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 this...

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Radar

Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages...The food notes are about new guidelines for allergens in food, Nutri-Score labeling and EU monitoring...

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online conference

This year, for well-known reasons, the conference will be held as a virtual event. It is dedicated to the topics of food safety, labelling and authenticity. This year, for well-known reasons, the...

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Soja

By means of COMMISSION DECISION (EU) 2021/64 of 22 January 2021, the European Union approve the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified...

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Eggs

Egg consumption in Europe is growing steadily year by year, with an increase of 2.5% in 2021 compared to 2019. In Italy, production for the past year, 2020, stood at 12.6 billion eggs. Egg...

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Rainbow trout

We have developed further specific PCR systems for the determination of three economically important edible fish. We have developed further specific PCR systems for the determination of three...

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Nuts

AGROLAB Ibérica already has all the nut allergens of Regulation (EU) 1169/2011, on the food information provided to the consumer, accredited under the ISO 17025 standard. AGROLAB Ibérica already...

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RASFF

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...

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Analytics

Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories. Here we present a retrospective monthly...

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Vietnam Market

The study, commissioned by the European Parliament, provides an overview of the most important trends in the use of plant protection products in developing countries. The study, commissioned by...

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Table grapes

The LAVES (Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Oldenburg) examined in 2020 a total of 34 samples of table grapes for pesticide residues. 94% of the samples were...

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overseas containers

Ethylene oxide is a highly toxic and reactive gas used to kill animal pests in warehouses and overseas containers. Ethylene oxide is a highly toxic and reactive gas used to kill animal pests in...

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Babynahrung

Currently, differences in definition exist for "pesticide residues" in food for general consumption and for baby food. Currently, differences in definition exist for "pesticide residues" in food...

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