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market

Marketing standards are rules describing the quality of products that are marketed to consumers. For agricultural products e.g. fruit and vegetables they define uniform trade characteristics with...

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alarm

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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Organic food

...is the conclusion of a PwC study that has just been published. According to the study, 90% of consumers occasionally and 37% regularly buy organic products. ...is the conclusion of a PwC study...

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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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soja

Our laboratory AGROLAB LUFA GmbH successfully expanded its portfolio for the analysis of genetically modified organisms (GMO). From now on, 15 genetically modified soy plants permitted for import...

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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...

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Pestizide

Insecticidal active ingredient alpha-cypermethrin may soon no longer be used. Insecticidal active ingredient alpha-cypermethrin may soon no longer be used.   Initially, an extension of the...

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Paragraf

The approval for the following chemical active ingredients was extended in the Implementing Regulation 2021/52 (EU) of January 22, 2021: The approval for the following chemical active ingredients...

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Raw

AESAN has published a Guideline for the verification of Listeria monocytogenes sampling in work areas and equipment used in the production of ready-to-eat foods. AESAN has published a Guideline...

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Environment

The Nutri-Score, which has just been accepted in many European countries, determines the nutritional value of a product and displays it in a simplified way using a colour code from green to red. Now...

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Mealworm bread

Yellow mealworms: approval as a novel food expected this year                                                                                                Yellow mealworms: approval as a novel...

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Fries

Process contaminants are not naturally present in food: The processes of baking, frying, grilling can induce the presence of undeserved substances harmful to human health in food.od expected this...

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alarm

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 the revision of the qs guidelines, antibiotics in veterinary medicine,...

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challenge mastered

AGROLAB has met the challenges of the changeover to the new accreditation standard with flying colours. Almost half a year before the expiry of the extended transition periods, the standard...

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Dr.A.Verwey

AGROLAB has recently acquired a commercial and office building in Barendrecht, near Rotterdam. The new building is to be put into operation as laboratory by the end of 2021 after a complete...

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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 with 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...

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Blackberries

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...

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Paragraf

Authorisations for the following chemical active substances have been extended in the implementing regulation (EU) 2020/2007 of 8 December 2020: Authorisations for the following chemical active...

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