liquors

working group on liquors

Objectives of the working group on liquors

     

  • Exchange of information on the production, composition and labeling of liquors and any problems associated with them
  • Development of compromise solutions with regard to the legal assessment of spirits and beverages containing liquors
  • Statements on legislative projects and changes to existing legal regulations at EC and national level regarding spirits and beverages containing liquors
  • Preparation of position papers on current issues

Members

18 active and 12 corresponding members from the areas of research and teaching, monitoring, industry and freelance food chemists

leadership of the working group

chairwoman

Nicole Oschwald
SGS Institute Fresenius
Roederstr. 8-10
79104 Fribourg
Phone: 0761 / 29648-20
nicole.oschwald@sgs.com

Deputy Chairman

Dipl.-Ing. Siegbert Henning
First Meissen specialty distillery
Prince of the Lips
Email: meissener-spec.brennerei@t-online.de

secretary

John Fox
Bavarian State Office for Health
and Food Safety (LGL)
johannes.fuchs@lgl.bayern.de

Term of office 2023 - 2025

Topics of the last meetings

The topics of the last session included the following:

     

  • The BMELV representative invited as a guest reported on new or planned legal spirits regulations; In doing so, both the EU law, in particular the implementing regulation for "compound terms" and the EU food information regulation, as well as the national spirits law (AGeV) and the technical documents to be drawn up for geographically protected information (here in particular grain / Kornbrand) reported; The changes for the alcohol and spirits market with regard to the abolition of the spirits monopoly from January 1, 2018 were also briefly discussed.
  • Examples of compound terms with regard to the future implementation regulation; a collection of examples is encouraged
  • Whiskey: Production using the wort method
  • Legal issues relating to labeling, e.g. B. "Vugelbeerpunsch", fruit spirit with fruit extract, mixture of fruit distillates
  • Old bread brandy: name, raw materials used, manufacturing conditions
  • Permissible additives for liquors
  • Limits for plasticizers
  • Use of antibiotics
  • Status of European data collection to establish a guideline value for ethyl carbamate
  • New elections of the chairman, his deputy and the secretary

Position papers

     

  • Use of compound terms, allusions and the term ‘mixture’ in the description and presentation of liquors (2022) ( pdf )
  • Application of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013 with regard to the labelling of liquors and other foodstuffs containing compound terms or allusions (2015) ( pdf )
  • Ethyl carbamate in stone fruit spirits (2006, updated 2010) ( pdf )
  • Application of the amended liquors Regulation (EC) No. 110/2008 ( pdf )
    Here: Use of so-called "compound terms" (decision trees)
    prepared by the LChG Working Group Liquors together with the BMELV

Downloads

Annual Report 2023

Annual Report 2022

Annual Report 2021

Annual Report 2020

Annual Report 2019

Annual Report 2018

Annual Report 2017

Annual Report 2016

Annual Report 2015

Annual Report 2014

Annual Report 2013

Annual Report 2012

Annual Report 2011

Annual Report 2010

Annual Report 2009

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