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Working groups

food laboratories

food laboratories

Working group food laboratories

Members

Food chemists from private non-official food laboratories and other organisational units (NGOs) who hold management positions – also in an advisory capacity – in the interests of active consumer protection and food safety

Objectives

Exchange of information and ideas on current topics in the food industry, food analysis and food monitoring, quality management and nutritional issues

Professional discussions on the following topics

  • Consumer protection and food safety
  • Crisis management
  • Nutritional issues
  • Food quality
  • Allergens and thresholds
  • Novel Food, Health Claims Regulation
  • Hygiene management, quality management
  • Official controls to verify compliance with food and feed law (General Administrative Regulation on the Framework for Monitoring – AVVRÜb)


Promoting cooperation between the working groups

  • Food laboratories
  • Food industry
  • Food monitoring
  • quality management and hygiene
  • nutritional issues

Management

Chairwoman

Jeannette Schwab
Institut Kirchhoff Berlin GmbH
030 85102824
js@institut-kirchhoff.de

Secretary

Dr. Katrin Hoenicke
katrinhoenicke@eurofins.de


Term of office 2024 - 2026

As of March 2024 (pdf)

Position paper of the Food Chemistry Society on the reporting obligation for laboratories, as of October 2019 (pdf)

Position paper of the working groups Food Industry, Food Monitoring, Quality Management & Hygiene, Food Laboratories, Elements and Element Species, and Pesticides of the Food Chemistry Society (LChG) on the indication and application of expanded measurement uncertainty – version dated 25 April (2018) (pdf​​​​​​​)

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