Focus of work

The current focus of work is currently:

 

• Nutritional labeling: including tolerances
• Functional foods
• Nutritional and health claims for food
• Extracts
• Nutrition in communal catering
• Nutritional profiles
• Sports nutrition
• Nanotechnology for food

News

• Vitamin conversion tables (2025) ( pdf )

Position papers

 

• Vitamin conversion tables (2025) ( pdf )
• Position paper of the German Society for Food Chemistry on the claims "fructose-free" and "low-fructose" (2025) ( pdf )
• Position paper of the German Society for Food Chemistry on the claims "lactose-free" and "low-lactose" (2018) ( pdf ) Appendix ( pdf )
• Dietary fiber: current perspective from a legal and analytical point of view (2012) ( pdf )
• Recommendations on tolerances for nutrient variations in nutritional labelling (2009) ( pdf )
• Recommendations for achieving a needs-based food supply in community catering for senior citizens (2008) ( pdf )
• Are the terms "nutrition" and "nutrient" changing? (2008) ( pdf )
• Guidelines for the assessment of supplementary balanced diets (2003) ( pdf )
• Statement on the nutritional labelling of food products (2003) ( pdf )
• Statement on fructooligosaccharides and inulin (2003) ( pdf )
• Revision of the LChG's 1989 statement on dietary fiber ( 2002 )
• Statement on the scientific substantiation of health claims for food products (2002) ( pdf )
• Statement on the labelling of allergenic components in food (2000) ( pdf )
• Statement on nutritional labelling (1992) ( pdf )
• Statement on sports nutrition (1991) ( pdf )

fundamental papers

In order to distinguish between statements by the Executive Board of the LChG (on legislative projects) and position papers (positions formulated by one or more AGs and which are supported by the Board as the position of society as a whole), basic papers contain overviews of specific topics that serve to form opinions and reflect the current state of knowledge.

 

• Measures, products and substances for weight management - a current inventory ( pdf ) ( list of substances ) - July 2015
• Sports nutrition and sports nutrition: A current inventory ( pdf )
• Appendix: Overview of nutrients and other substances with (nutritional) physiological effects that are used in sports nutrition. No statement is made as to their admissibility under food law. ( table )
• Basic paper of the Food Chemical Society on plant extracts in food ( pdf) (Status: April 2022)
  List of further reading Plant extracts ( pdf )

Archive

 

• Position paper of the Food Chemistry Society on the terms "lactose-free" and "low-lactose" prepared by the working group "nutritional issues" from 2005 ( pdf ).
• Publication replaced by position paper 2018 ( pdf ) Appendix ( pdf )
• A guide to the assessment of plant extracts in food using the example of secondary plant compounds (2005) ( pdf )
• Vitamin conversion tables (2006) ( pdf ) ( Replaced by Vitamin conversion tables (Nov. 2025, see Current)

 

Contributions to the discussion and information

 

• Status report on "vegetarian and vegan foods" ( pdf ) - December 2017
• D. Schweizer: "Put up for discussion: nutritional profiles - access requirements for nutrition and health claims" ( pdf )
• A. Hahn and A. Ströhler: "Importance of nutritional factors for the acid-base balance - current status of the discussion" ( pdf )