Nitrosamine Alerts: EMA Published an Updated Version for the Q&A Documents on Nitrosamine Impurities News Nitrosamine Alerts: EMA continues updating the document “Questions and answers for marketing authorisation holders/appli...
Food Safety in Europe: 2022 Annual Report of the Alert and Cooperation Network (RASFF, AAC and FFN) Alerts Last 19th June 2023 the European Commission published its 2022 report of the Alert and Cooperation Network. The report c...
Antibiotic residues in honey Vet Drugs According to EU legislation that is in force, the use of antibiotics in beekeeping is not allowed. Nonetheless, multiple...
Nitrosamine alerts: EMA never stops updating Q&A documents on nitrosamine impurities Alerts EMA continues updating the document “Questions and answers for marketing authorisation holders/applicants on the CHMP Op...
Listeria monocytogenes: new food alerts notified Microbiology Listeria is a family of bacteria consisting of several species, among them Listeria monocytogenes is the only pathogenic...
Hepatitis A in soft fruits: new alerts notified Alerts Hepatitis A is an inflammation of the liver caused by the HAV virus, mainly associated with inadequately prepared or was...
Nitrosamine alerts: on 20 may 2022, EMA updated the Q&A documents on nitrosamine impurities Alerts 20 May 2022 - EMA/409815/2020 Rev.9 EMA has updated the document “Questions and answers for marketing authorisation hold...
Titanium dioxide: feed recall date approaching! Alerts Based on EFSA's negative opinion of 5 May 2021 on the safety of use of titanium dioxide (TiO2) in animal feed, feed mate...
Peanut in soybean lecithin Alerts European Regulation no. 1169/2011 requires that the 14 most important substances that can trigger allergies or intoleran...
Joint ecdc-efsa rapid outbreak assessment of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to chocolate products Microbiology As of 8 April 2022, 150 confirmed and probable cases of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported in nine EU/...
Determination of Ethylene Oxide and Propylene Oxide and their metabolites Alerts A year and half after the first notification about the presence of ethylene oxide residues in sesame seeds, in Belgium,...
The 2020 European Union report on pesticide residues in food Alerts Last 30th March 2022, The European Food Safety Authority published the EU 2020 report on pesticide residues in food. The...
Nitrosamines alert: extended deadline to submit data on NDMA and other impurities in products containing azithromycin Pharmaceuticals Between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, the Competent Authorities has testing on a representative b...
Nitrosamines alerts: recall saga seems to be never ending Alerts Since June 2018, pharmaceutical companies' efforts to identify nitrosamine impurities have not stopped. Patient safety i...
Nitrosamines alert: Potential for endogenous formation of NDSRIs (nitrosamine drug substance-related impurities) Pharmaceuticals Recently, FDA is pushing to investigate the presence of certain types of nitrosamine impurities - formed in several drug...
Nitrosamine alerts: EMA defined acceptance limit for N-nitrosomorpholine in pharmaceutical products Pharmaceuticals 29 June 2021 - EMA/409815/2020 Rev.4 EMA has updated the document “Questions and answers for marketing authorisation hol...
Ethylene oxide in foods, new european alert Alerts Ethylene oxide is largely used to sterilize materials and instruments used in surgery and for medical devices, but it is...
Nitrosamine alerts: new deadlines for sartans Alerts In November 2020, the CHMP adopted an Opinion concluding that the outcome of the Article 31 referral on angiotensin-II-r...
New presence of nitrosamines in antibacterial drugs based on rifampicin in EU and US Pharmaceuticals New investigations havepermitted to detect the presence of nitrosamine impurities (1-nitroso-4-methyl piperazine, MeNP)...
Nitrosamines alert: update from the European medicines regulatory network Pharmaceuticals The European medicines regulatory network has agreed to extend the deadline to complete step 1 (risk evaluation) as desc...