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Dr David Jukes, The University of
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Food Law News - UK - 2014
FSA Update,28 February 2014
CONTAMINANTS / ADDITIVES / ENZYMES – FSA Food Safety Policy Update (February 2014)
This latest issue of our periodic update bulletin provides you with information on the key developments within the Food Safety Policy.
The attached summary of news items details the areas covered in this bulletin, and clicking on the associated links will take you directly to the relevant material.
You may also wish to note that the Chemical Safety Division has recently merged with the Hygiene and Microbiology Division and is now called Food Safety Policy. As a result of this we are considering whether to extend this bulletin to cover matters relating to feed and food hygiene/microbiology.
This would considerably increase the size of the bulletin and the size of the distribution list. I would therefore appreciate your feedback on whether you would like the the update to continue and, if so, whether it should be expanded to cover feed and food hygiene/microbiology. Please send your comments to:Benjamin.nketiah@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk
A copy of the Update is available on this site. See: Food Safety Policy Update (February 2014). A listing of the topics covered is given below.
SUMMARY OF NEWS ITEMS
Environmental Contaminants (Inorganic)
- Lead – draft maximum limits: Commission Regulation1881/2006 (as amended)
- Arsenic - draft maximum limits: CommissionRegulation 1881/2006 (as amended)
- 2 and 3 MCPD Esters/ Glycidyl Esters – draftmonitoring recommendation
- Perchlorate
- UK total diet study of meals and other elements (andacrylamide in selected categories)
Process Contaminants
- Acrylamide and Furan survey 2014-2018
Environmental Contaminants (Organic)
Dioxins and PCBs
- •Monitoring and Reduction
- •Baltic Salmon
- •Reallocation of non-compliant feed ingredients to thefood chain
- •PCBs in dogfish
- •Separate limits for dioxin-like PCBs
- •Brominated flame retardants (BFRs)
- •Perfluorinated compounds
- •Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Mycotoxins
Developments in EU policy
- Concerning Commission Regulation (EC) No.1881/2006 (as amended) in regard to the setting ofmaximum levels for citrinin in red yeast rice
- Concerning Regulation (EC) 1881/2006, as amended as regards maximum levels of erucic acid in vegetable oils and fats and foods containing vegetable oils and fats
- Concerning Regulation (EC) 1881/2006, as amended as regards maximum levels of ergot in certain cereal grains
- Concerning Regulation (EC) No 1152/2009 imposing special conditions governing the import of certain foodstuffs from certain third countries due to contamination risk by aflatoxins
- Concerning a Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 401/2006 as regards methods of sampling of large lots, spices and food supplements, performance criteria for T-2, HT-2 toxin and citrinin and screening methods of analysis
Guidance Documents and Codes of Practice
- Guidance on the application of Commission Recommendation 2013/165/EU on the presence of T-2 and HT-2 toxin in cereals and cereal products
- Good practices to reduce presence of opium alkaloids in poppy seeds
- Code of Practice for Weed Control to Prevent and Reduce Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid (PA) contamination in Food and Feed
- Proposed draft Annex for the prevention and reduction of aflatoxins and ochratoxin A contamination in sorghum
Preparation of discussions in advance of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food, 31 March - 4 April 2014
Scientific opinions EFSA and other risk assessment bodies
- Tropane alkaloids
- DON - consumption estimates
- Effect of increasing DON MLs for certain semi-processed food
- Effect of processing on the levels of nitrate
- Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in herbal teas
- Risk assessment of mycotoxins in cereal grain (Norway)
- DON and acetylated derivatives and masked mycotoxins
Research commissioned/proposed:
- Survey on sterigmatocystin in food
- Determination of masked mycotoxins in cereals and cereal-based foods
- Occurrence of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in food
- Ergot alkaloids in cereal grain
- Development of an electronic database for the collating of industry T-2 and HT-2 mycotoxin occurrence data
- Call for research proposals from DG Research
- Request for data
Food Allergy Update
- EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation (EU FIC) – implementation of EU rules into UK law
Flavourings, Food Enzymes, Food Additives and Food Contact Materials
Flavourings
- Union list of smoke flavourings
- Union list of flavouring
Food Enzymes
Food Additives
- FSA guidance on food additives legislation
- Food additives in meat
- Food supplements for children
- Colours in food guidance
- EFSA opinion on aspartame
- University of hull study on aspartame
Food Contact Materials
- EFSA launches second stage of BPA consultation
- Amendment to Commission Regulation (EU) No10/2011 on Plastic Materials and Articles intended to come into contact with food.
- Union Guidance on Food Contact Materials published
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