Risk assessment: Essential ingredient for greater food safety

BfR organizes international symposium in Costa Rica

21-Nov-2024 - Pineapples from Costa Rica or fruit juices from Brazil - Latin America and the Caribbean are among the most important import countries for the European Union. International cooperation is needed to strengthen food safety and consumer health protection in both regions. The third Latin American and ...

analytica 2024: Food analysis for sustainable nutrition

From PFAS to microplastics: focus on new harmful substances

16-Nov-2023 - From meat-free cold cuts to vegan salmon, the food market is changing. More and more consumers want to eat sustainably, but without sacrificing the taste of familiar products. “Modern analytical methods play a key role in the development of alternative foods, which is why analytica is ...

analytica 2024 presents the laboratory world of tomorrow

Focus topics are digitization and sustainability

11-Oct-2023 - The international laboratory industry will meet in person again in spring 2024 at analytica in Munich from April 9 to 12. The world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology covers the entire spectrum of laboratories in industry and research, and places great ...

POWTECH and PARTEC 2023 – three days of processing and particle technology at the highest level

27-Sep-2023 - From 26 to 28 September 2023, POWTECH in Nuremberg will once again become the hot spot for international experts in processing technology from a wide range of user segments, especially the food and feed, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. In four exhibition halls, 553 exhibitors from 27 ...

Bulk solids industry cautiously optimistic for 2023

Manufacturers in the ventilation and process technology sectors are cautiously optimistic about the future after surviving the Corona crisis

20-Jul-2023 - POWTECH, Europe's leading trade fair for mechanical processing, analysis and handling of powders and bulk solids, will be held in Nuremberg from September 26-28. The VDMA special show will be there again this year - with eleven exhibit exhibitors and, for the first time, under the joint ...

Ciguatoxins in sea fish: sophisticated testing strategy enables clarification of fish poisonings

BfR can reliably detect poisoning with ciguatoxins by combining different test methods

24-Mar-2022 - Poisoning with ciguatoxins after consumption of a sea fish meal is still rare in Germany. However, ciguatera, as the disease is called, is one of the most frequent fish poisonings worldwide that do not have a bacterial origin. Against the background of the expansion of global trade in sea fish ...

Hahn-Schickard and Endress+Hauser found joint venture Endress+Hauser BioSense

26-Jul-2021 - Securing the food supply is the explicit goal of the joint venture between Endress+Hauser and Hahn-Schickard. To this end the two partners have now founded the company Endress+Hauser BioSense GmbH. Its aim is to make rapid on-site molecular analyses possible, which can be used, for example, to ...

Mintel Celebrates its 20th Anniversary in Asia Pacific

26-Nov-2020 - Mintel,the experts in what consumers want and why, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in Asia Pacific. The company opened its first APAC office in Australia in 2008 and began offering market intelligence services to the wider region. Today, Mintel has offices in China, Singapore, Indonesia, ...

analytica 2020: The world’s leading trade fair extends its reach with analytica virtual

First complementary laboratory fair

14-Aug-2020 - analytica gets a digital extension. With the new format analytica virtual, the world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology also enables those exhibitors and visitors to participate who due to travel restrictions cannot come to Munich. In addition, parts of the ...

Anti-pollution food and drinks

An emerging but lucrative segment

23-Jul-2019 - Anti-pollution has the potential to become an on-trend and highly lucrative product claim in the food and drinks sector. Against this backdrop, manufacturers must act quickly to capitalize on the opportunity and take credible steps to actually address the issue of pollution, rather than simply ...