The laboratory team for pesticide analysis at AGROLAB LUFA has developed a new multi-method for the determination of polar pesticides (anions) that promises significant advantages for our customers compared to previous methods.
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF). Via this link you can download a table from the European Rapid alert system (RASFF) with important notifications from product category fruit & vegetables.
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
The French government issued an import ban on fresh cherries on 25.3.2023. We reported on this in the previous issue of AGROLAB RADAR (April 2023). The decision has now been amended.
The approval of the active substance Oxamyl, which belongs to the carbamates and was used as an insecticide, will not be renewed. The EU Commission has announced the non-renewal of the authorisation of Oxamyl
This is the conclusion reached by EFSA in its assessment of the risk to public health associated with the presence of nitrosamines in food. Ten nitrosamines found in food are carcinogenic and genotoxic.
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.
The EU monitoring programme for pesticide residues in food is designed to ensure compliance with maximum levels and assess the risk of exposure for European consumers through a Community test plan that is updated annually. Commission Regulation 2023/731 of 3 April 2023 established the programme for the period 2024-2026.
Cocoa beans can absorb toxic heavy metals such as cadmium from the soil. In some cultivation areas, especially in South America, the soils are sometimes considerably contaminated with heavy metals.
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"Times are changing and we are changing with them".
This sentence characterised the conference.
Melamine is an organic compound that has historically appeared as an illegal additive in food and feed. However, it can also unintentionally enter food through food contact materials such as plastic items, can linings, paper, cardboard and adhesives.
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF). Via this link you can download a table from the European Rapid alert system (RASFF) with important notifications from product category fruit & vegetables.
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories.
The approval periods for abamectin and other active substances were extended and changes regarding their use were newly regulated in Commission implementing regulations (EU) 2023/515 of 8.3.23 (valid from 12.4.2023) and (EU) 2023/689 of 20.3.23 (valid from 18.4.23).
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.
On 25 March 2023, the French government once again imposed an import ban on fresh cherries. This time, the trade restriction applies if the cherries come from countries where the active substance phosmet is still approved for treatment.
Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. received approval from the National Biosafety Commission of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation to grow and market its HB4 wheat.
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.
Scientists at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen discover mutagenic substances in vegetable oils with a high content of unsaturated fatty acids.
EU Regulation (EU) 2023/465 sets new maximum levels for inorganic arsenic in rice and rice products, infant formulae, complementary foods, fruit juices and table salt from 26.3.23.