Meet the FOCOS team at the 14th edition of the Rapid Methods Europe Conference! Bert Popping will chair two sessions: Scientific session: Food and feed integrity Final plenary session: Rapid analysis and diagnostics, what further? RME2022 is the 14th conference in the Rapid Methods Europe series dedicated to innovations and breakthroughs in rapid analysis & [...]
Bert Popping will speak at the Fresenius "Food Allergen Conference" (German language). Bert will address the following points: What has happened so far: Codex Allergen Expert Consultations and the new recommendations on PAL PAL management in the food industry with the help of test reports? Consumer Protection, Feasibility and Outlook for Europe [...]
While having a single threshold for precautionary food allergen labelling (PAL) seems attractive at first sight, the analytical challenges and the labelling need to consider food matrices and consumers’ literacy levels.
The new recommendations on food allergen thresholds from the ad hoc Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergens has been published.
This event is organized by MoniQA and hosted by FOCOS. The industry segment food has seen numerous developments in the past few years. So it is a good time to ask the question “What’s Next?”. As such, the human microbiome got into the focus of researchers and risk assessors. Novel proteins are being [...]
This is the food allergen newsfeed, containing the latest information on developments and events from around the world.
The big 8 food allergens have been listed in Codex Alimentarius since the 1990s. After more than twenty years, it was time for a review. And while the number of food allergens on this list remained the same, the allergens on it have changed.
