The antioxidant ethoxyquin (EQ) is one of a number of legally permitted additives that are added to the fish-meal used in fish feed in order to prevent it from becoming rancid. A small percentage of the additive is incorporated in the flesh of the fish. A person who regularly consumes 300 g salmon a day […]
That was the message from Jennifer Tucker, deputy administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s NOP, who spoke Jan. 10 at The Packer’s Global Organic Produce Expo. “The rule will be a game-changer,” Tucker said. The “Strengthening Enforcement Rule,” now being reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget, particularly applies to uncertified handlers and […]
Our partner bilacon, located in Berlin is now a registered GMP+ laboratory (GMP+ certification number: GMP0505128). GMP stands for Good Manufacturing Practice and GMP+ was introduced to ensure reliable laboratory analysis within the feed chain. From 01 January 2020, only GMP+ registered laboratories may carry out the analysis of critical contaminants in feed. bilacon has […]
The insecticide chlorpyrifos may no longer be used in the entire European Union from the end of January 2020. Chlorpyrifos is one of the most commonly used pesticides in agriculture, killing lice, fruit flies and other pests, and is used in fruit and cereal crops. Chlorpyrifos has been suspected of influencing human brain development […]
It seems obvious that no pesticide residues should be detectable in organic products. But even organic products cannot always be completely free of harmful substances. From air and water, for example, pesticides can get into the soil and then into the plants. Pesticides used in the neighbourhood also occasionally drift onto organic fields. Occasionally, organic […]
Terpenes are molecules constructed from isoprene units that occur naturally in plants. As secondary metabolites, they have a wide range of functions such as attracting pollinating insects, protecting against herbivores or as growth regulators. Terpenes are the main component of essential oil and have a decisive influence on the aroma of plants products such as […]
The pesticide chlorpyrifos does not meet the criteria required by legislation for the renewal of its approval in the European Union, EFSA has said in a statement. The approval period for chlorpyrifos expires in January 2020, and the manufacturers’ application for renewal is currently being evaluated under the EU’s peer review system for approval of […]
After eating smoked salmon, two people died of Listeria infection in Australia. The Australian Department of Health, investigating three Listeria infections in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales determined that cases occurred in people over 70 years of age with significant underlying diseases. Two deaths occurred in New South Wales and Victoria. The probable source […]
There is an elephant in the room called undernourished population worldwide. It is the population that has no access or wealth to healty food resulting undernutritent, overnutritent and micronutritent deficiencies. As a matter of fact, about 815 million people are chronically cacotrophic. (FAO et al., 2017) over two billion people are facing deficiencies of micronutrient […]
There has been a paper released on Listeria monocytogenes recently named “Whole room disinfection with hydrogen peroxide mist to control Listeria monocytogenes in food industry related environments” It is about a study that has been testing whole room disinfection with H2O2 kills L. monocytogenes under conditions relevant for food industry. The results in this study […]
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