Quinolizidine Alkaloids in Lupins Contaminants Quinolizidine alkaloids are secondary metabolic products that serve plants as defense and protection against herbivores....
Inorganic Arsenic in Food: EFSA Confirms Health Concerns Regulatory Updates In the environment, arsenic occurs naturally and forms many different compounds in combination with either inorganic or...
Endocrine Disruptors: Avoiding Contamination Contaminants Nearly 800 substances considered as disruptors... What are Endocrine Disruptors? According to the WHO and Regulation (EC...
Cosmetics & Microbiological Contamination: Products Recalled from the Market! Regulatory Updates In the past few years, several cosmetic products have been recalled from the US market due to microbiological contaminat...
16th Amendment to the EU Regulation on Food Contact Materials Regulatory Updates Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1442 of 11 July 2023 is amending the Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on food conta...
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...
Climate Change and Emerging Food Safety Risks Food Safety Climate change refers to long-term shifts in weather patterns and average temperatures on Earth. These are mainly caused...
How to Ensure Food Packaging Safety? Sensory The food packaging market is on the rise. According to Statista (2022), the global market value was 305 billion USD in 2...
PBDEs in Food: New Public Consultation by EFSA on Health Risks Regulatory Updates PBDEs (PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ethers) are a class of chemical substances known as brominated flame retardants (BFRs). A...
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...
Key Outcomes of the 4th International Congress on Mineral Oil Contaminants in Food Events On June 5-6th 2023, Mérieux NutriSciences, together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fettwissenschaft e.V., hosted the...
Heavy Metals Remain a Key Concern for the Baby Food Manufacturing Sector Contaminants A recent study by Consumer Reports compared the levels of heavy metals in baby foods from 2018 to 2023 and found that so...
Pfas in air Contaminants Pfas in air: what analysis in one of the most complex matrices? The presence of PFASs, often documented for water, also...
PFAS in water Contaminants Water is one of the most tested environmental matrices for the presence of PFAS. Water can be a vehicle for contaminatio...
Nitrosamines: EFSA Opinion published Regulatory Updates Nitrosamines are chemical compounds, some of which are considered genotoxic and carcinogenic, formed by the reaction bet...
New EU Food Contaminants Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 Regulatory Updates After numerous amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 on contaminants, the European Commission has deemed it appropr...
The 2021 European Union report on pesticide residues in food Regulatory Updates Last 26th April 2023, The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published the EU 2021 report on pesticide residues in fo...
Nanomaterial testing accredited since 2018 Services Nanomaterials are used across almost all industrial sectors and product categories, whether food, cosmetics, industrial...
Nitrosamine impurities, welcome to our dedicated labs Pharmaceuticals Mérieux NutriSciences has a deep experience in nitrosamines analyses in foods, feeds, tobacco, water, cosmetics and phar...
Perfluorocarboxylic acids (C9-C14 PFCAs) and their salts banned in the EU as 25th February 2023 Regulatory Updates Linear and branched perfluorocarboxylic acids containing 9 to 14 carbon atoms in the chain (‘C9-C14 PFCAs’), their salts...
A list of heavy metals accredited for testing cosmetic products Services Mérieux NutriSciences is glad to announce that our CosmeticLAB has obtained the accreditation for a list of heavy metals...
Maximum levels of Arsenic and Inorganic Arsenic in food in EU Regulatory Updates Arsenic occurs naturally in the environment but industrial emissions and its use in fertilisers and pesticides have cont...
Emerging mycotoxins and climate change Contaminants Mycotoxins are toxic substances produced by certain types of fungi and are present in many foods and animal feeds. Emerg...
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...
New EU maximum levels of Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in certain foodstuffs Contaminants Last 8th December 2022, the Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2388 of 7 December 2022 was published amending Regulat...
Arsenic and inorganic arsenic: draft regulations for certain foods Regulatory Updates Arsenic is a ubiquitous metalloid. It is naturally present in the environment: rocks, soil, and volcanic emissions can c...
Chemical food contaminants: present and future Contaminants Contaminants are chemical compounds that may be present in food because of production, processing, packaging, and transp...
New maximum levels for dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in certain foodstuffs Regulatory Updates On October 24th 2022, the Regulation (EU) 2022/2002 was published, regarding Regulation (EU) 2022/2002, and concerning m...
New EU recommendation on monitoring Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in food and feed including methods of sampling and analysis Contaminants On the 26th August 2022, the Recommendation (EU) 2022/1431 on Monitoring the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances - PFA...
New EU Regulation setting maximum levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9 -THC) in hemp seeds and products Regulatory Updates Last 12th August 2022, it was published the Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1393 amending Regulation (EC) No 1881/...