Analytical and food law topics

Analytical topics

 

• additives and their analysis (purity requirements, detection in the food matrix, contaminant analysis)
• JECFA (FAO/WHO) methods; § 64 methods
• Cooperation between reference laboratories (national – European)

Food law issues

 

• Food law regulations (e.g. Regulation (EC) 1333/2008)
• Scientific questions (including technological effectiveness)
• Purity criteria (Regulation (EU) 231/2012)
• Demarcation questions additives / processing aids / nutrients / food ingredients (e.g. dietary fiber as additives or nutrient)
• Exchange on developments in the approval of additives in the EU
• Labelling of additives in food and in business-to-business distribution
• Safety issues regarding additives (e.g. discussion of current EFSA opinions)

Position papers and statements

Further publications

Please note that access to the publications in "food chemistry" is reserved for subscribers of the journal only.

 

• Poster presentation by the Working Group Additives at the Food Chemistry Days 2025
• Häseler, J. (2025) Conference Report II “Dietary Fiber – Much More Than Ballast”
• Sieg, J. (2025) Concentrated dietary fiber based on the J. Rettenmaier portfolio
• Bunzel, M. (2025) Can analytical methods map the chemical diversity of dietary fiber?
• Nagel, A. (2025) Reformulation of foods with extrinsic fiber
• Kerlikowsky, F. (2025) Dietary fiber – a nutritional physiology perspective
• Scherb-Forster, J. (2025) Plant fiber preparations for food – Between additive and nutrient, food fraud or benefit?
• Gelbert, J. (2025) Food law interpretation issues from the perspective of the food industry
  

Literature references and further links

References

 

• Ed. Muermann | Rexroth | Sumfleth: Handbook of Food Additives, Behr's Verlag, Hamburg
• P. Kuhnert: Encyclopedia of food additives, 4th ed., 2014, Behr's Verlag, Hamburg
• R. Matissek & M. Fischer: Food Analysis, 2nd ed. Springer Spektrum, 2021
• Michael and Irene Ash: Handbook of Food Additives, 3rd Ed., Synapse Information Resources Inc., 2008
• Jim Smith: Food Additive User's Handbook, Springer science+business media, LLC, 1996

Further websites:

 

• Germany
  BMEL - Authorisation and use of food additives
  BfR - Food Additives
  BfR - Commission for Food Additives, flavorings and Processing Aids
  German Food Association - additives
  VCI - Guideline for Good Hygiene Practice in the Production of Food Additives
  

• EU
  European Commission - Additives
  EFSA - Food additives
  

• Codex Alimentarius
  Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA)
  Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA) Online Database
  JECFA – Database on Evaluations of JECFA
  JECFA – Combined Compendium of Food Additives Specifications

 

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