by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 8, 2019 | Food Fraud
What is food fraud? Do you remember the horse meat scandal? It originated in Ireland at the beginning of 2013, when food inspectors found out that beef meat sold at common supermarkets contained considerable traces of horse meat. From there, over 15,000 tests were...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 30, 2019 | Food Safety
What are import food and export food requirements between China an the EU? What do you need to know? Ham treated with pesticides, fake powdered milk, expired meat sold to fast food chains and baby formula contaminated with melamine are just a few examples of the long...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 24, 2019 | Food Safety
In the early sixties hardly anybody knew how heat sealing machines work. For those of you that were born in or before the sixties, you may remember your lunch choice being made through a glass shelf on a café counter top, where the selection on offer was a bland...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 19, 2019 | Algemeen
In March 2017 the EU parliament and the commission adopted Regulation 2017/625 on Official Controls on food and feed – Official Controls Regulation. Most of its provisions will be applied in December 2019. The new Regulation incorporates (and repeals) several...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 11, 2019 | Algemeen
On 15 March 2017 the Official Controls Regulation on the food supply chain was adopted by the EU Parliament and Commission in Regulation 2017/625 on . The news didn’t make too many waves in the industry, perhaps because – at least for the immediate future...
