The working group is made up of professionally competent members from surveillance and industry, research and trade laboratories and deals with analytical issues from the following areas:
DNA-based analysis
Protein / peptide based analysis
Anke Rullmann
Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office Karlsruhe
Email: anke.rullmann@cvuaka.bwl.de
Dr. Daniela Bartsch
Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL)
Email: daniela.bartsch@cvua-mel.de
Ute Schröder
Max Rubner Institute
Institute for Safety and Quality of Milk and Fish, Hamburg
Email: ute.schroeder@mri.bund.de
Term of office 2023 - 2025
? Genetically modified / genome-edited organisms in food, feed and seeds
? Allergens in food
? authenticity of food
o Species identification (plant and animal species)
o External additives (e.g. soy protein in meat, ...)
? Novel foods (e.g. insects)
? Method development committee of the LAG (regional committee on genetic engineering)
Tasks):
Method development for the detection of genetically modified microorganisms or GMOs according to GenTG
Contact Person:
Mrs. Anke Belter
State Office for Environmental Protection Saxony-Anhalt
Reilstrasse 72
06114 Halle (Saale)
? AVID working group on Molecular Biological Methods in Animal Disease Diagnostics
Tasks):
Optimization and standardization of molecular biological examination procedures for AVID method collection
Organization of comparative examinations
Contact Person:
Dr. Wolfgang Gäde
State Veterinary and State Investigation Office
Haferbreiter Weg 132-135, 39576 Stendal
? DIN standards committee for food and agricultural products (NAL)
Tasks):
Standardization and standardization
Contact Person:
Dr. Tom Resler
DIN German Institute for Standardization V.
Saatwinkler Damm 42/43, 13627 Berlin
? Section 64 of the LFGB working group to develop methods for identifying foods produced using genetic engineering
Tasks):
Method development and validation
Contact Person:
PD Dr. Joachim Mankertz
Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety BVL
Section 503: "National reference laboratories for residues of pharmacologically active substances and GMOs"
P.O. Box 110260
10832 Berlin
? § 64 LFGB working group development of molecular biological methods for plant and animal species differentiation
Tasks):
Method development and validation
Contact Person:
Dr. Claudia Brünen-Nieweler
Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office Münsterland - Emscher - Lippe (CVUA-MEL)
Josef König Str. 40, 48147 Münster
? Section 64 of the LFGB - working group on Molecular Biological Methods - Microbiology
Tasks):
Method development and validation
Contact Person:
Dr. Dietrich Mäde
State Office for Consumer Protection Saxony-Anhalt, Food Safety Department
Freiimfelder Str. 68, 06112 Halle (Saale)
? Section 64 of the LFGB working group on food allergens
Tasks):
Method development and validation
Contact Person:
Dr. Ulrich Busch
Bavarian State Office for Health
and food safety
Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleissheim
? working group PCR analysis of the Division feed in the VDLUFA
Tasks):
Method development and validation
Contact Person:
Dr. Sabine Domey
Thuringian State Agency for Agriculture (TLL)
Naumburger Str. 98, 07743 Jena
? European network for GMO laboratories (ENGL)
Tasks):
Validation, method development, harmonization of procedures
Contact person (in Germany):
Dr. Lutz Grohmann
Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
Genetic Engineering Division 405 - Traceability, Verification Procedures, Biosafety Clearing House
Mauerstrasse 39-42, 10117 Berlin
? working group for food-associated viruses (ALV)
Tasks):
Expert group "Food Associated Viruses"
Contact Person
Prof. Dr. Becker
Technical University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe
Life Science Technologies
Campusallee 12, 32657 Lemgo
? Subcommittee "polymerase chain reaction for the detection of microorganisms"
Tasks):
Standardization of examination procedures
Contact Person:
Dr. Kornelia Berghof-Jäger
BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH
Hermannswerder Haus 17, 14473 Potsdam
? ERFA Molecular Biology working group (Switzerland)
Task (s) and sub-working groups:
GMO analysis / animal species differentiation / microorganisms / allergens
Contact Person:
Dr. Rene Köppel
Cantonal Laboratory Zurich
Fehrenstrasse 15
8032 Zurich (Switzerland)
? Microbiology and Molecular Biology Division (Austria)
Task:
Molecular biological methods (e.g. mycology)
Contact Person:
Dr. Andreas Adler
Working Group of Agricultural Research Centers in Austria (ALVA)
Austrian Agency for Health
and food security GmbH
Institute for Animal Nutrition and feed
Wieningerstraße 8, A 4021 Linz
1) General (all topics) or start pages
Information platform of the EU on food allergens:
www.foodallergens.info/
US-FDA Information about Food Allergens:
http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/FoodAllergens/default.htm
2) Consumer Information
German nutritional advice and information network (DEBInet):
www.ernaehrung.de/tipps/nahrungsmittelallergien/
3) Analytics
Activities from the MoniQA project:
https://www.moniqa.org/
4) Allergen research
Officially recognized allergens:
www.allergen.org/
Allergome information platform (not peer-reviewed):
www.allergome.org/
FARRP Allergen Database (peer-reviewed):
www.allergenonline.com/
Informall (EU project) database (peer-reviewed):
www.ifr.ac.uk/protall/database.html
Allergen Data Collection (maintained only up to 2002):
www.food-allergens.de/
CSL Allergen Database: allergen.csl.gov.uk
5) Details on allergies/toxicological assessment
Allergy prevention action alliance:
www.allergiepraevention.de/
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