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Food safety laboratories involved in pesticide residue monitoring typically employ a multi-residue LC-MS/MS method for the quantification of an ever increasing list of target pesticides. In this study we present two methods developed for the analysis of a wide range of polar pesticides using the Shimadzu LCMS-8050...
23 December 2014 | By John Holah, Jim Taylour and Steven Ackers Holchem Laboratories Ltd
In Europe, disinfectants (biocides) used in the food industry are controlled by a range of legislation, but two are key in determining the level of disinfectant that can be taken up by foodstuffs after the disinfectant’s legitimate use. Regulation (EC) No 396/20051 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or…
The purpose of this free white paper is to provide an overview on current thinking within the food industry for how best to manage pesticide residue risk in food products and supply chains.
23 October 2014 | By European Food Safety Authority
New guidance from EFSA sets out for the first time a harmonised methodology for calculating exposure to pesticides for four major population groups - operators, workers, residents and bystanders...
21 October 2014 | By European Food Safety Authority
The French food safety agency and the European Food Safety Authority are organising a joint conference on October 28 and 29 to present an overview of the latest developments in knowledge on occupational exposure to pesticides...
14 July 2014 | By EPRW 2014
New Food was in attendance at the 10th European Pesticide Residues Workshop in Dublin from 30 June – 3 July 2014...
10 July 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
EFSA is launching a public consultation on draft guidance that enables scientists to predict environmental concentrations of plant protection products and their transformation products in soil...
21 May 2014 | By EFSA
EFSA presents the fifth EU annual report on pesticide residues in food for 2011. This infographic highlights how EFSA and Member States work together to monitor residues of these substances.
1 May 2014 | By Stewart Reynolds Senior Scientist, Food Quality and Safety Programme, Food and Environment Research Agency
Information about pesticide residues in the food we produce, import, sell and consume is important to anyone involved in the food industry and to us all as consumers of food. Each year throughout the European Union, around 100,000 samples of food are collected and tested for pesticide residues. This is…
24 June 2013 | By Carl K. Winter, Markus Lipp, Jeffrey Moore
Pesticide biomonitoring: applications and limitations for food safety risk assessment (Carl K. Winter Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis)Novel yeasts, novel flavours (Markus Lipp and Jeffrey Moore US Pharmacopeial Convention)
13 December 2012 | By José Bernal del Nozal, Pilar Manzano, Juan Carlos Diego, María Jesús Nozal, Carmen Ferrer, Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba
Studying the influence of the potato variety and frying oil on fatty acid content of commercial potato crisps (José Bernal del Nozal, Pilar Manzano, Juan Carlos Diego and María Jesús Nozal - IU CINQUIMA, Analytical Chemistry Group, University of Valladolid)LC-MS/MS and pesticide residue analysis in food (Carmen Ferrer and Amadeo…
27 April 2011 | By Russell IPM
Russell IPM has launched bio rational alternative to Methyl bromide for the control of Indian Meal Moth in food processing and storage facilities...
15 December 2010 | By Gerry Broski, Food Safety Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Renzo Boni, Laboratory Manager, Conserve Italia
There are currently over one thousand recognised pesticides utilised in the production of foodstuffs worldwide, with the requirement for pesticide usage growing as consumer demand for food at a low cost and out of season increases. With pesticides such as lindane and carbendazim linked with cancer, fertility problems and hormone…
