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Aflatoxins can occur in foods such as groundnuts, tree nuts, maize, rice, figs and other dried foods, spices, crude vegetable oils and cocoa beans, as a result of fungal contamination before and after harvest. Several types of aflatoxins are produced naturally. Aflatoxin B1 is the most common in food and among the most potent genotoxic and ...
Sep 13, 2023 · Mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) comprise a wide range of chemical compounds obtained mainly from petroleum distillation and refining. They are categorised into two main groups referred to as MOSH (Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbons) and MOAH (Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons). MOH can enter food in many ways - through environmental ...
Salmonellosis is the second most common zoonotic disease A zoonotic disease or zoonosis is a disease caused by germs that spread between animals and people after campylobacteriosis in the EU, and Salmonella is a common cause of foodborne disease An illness caused by foods or drinks which have been contaminated by toxins or harmful microbes (e.g. bacteria, viruses) outbreaks.
Nov 18, 2022 · The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) runs 2 crisis preparedness training events annually and selected chemical contamination as the scientific domain for its 2022 activities. The 4 specific exercise learning objectives of the 2022 EFSA and the Bulgarian Risk Assessment Center on Food Chain (RACFC) crisis preparedness workshop were: (a) to improve how and when collaboration takes place ...
Nov 26, 2020 · In the kitchen of the consumer, two main transmission routes are relevant for quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA): the cross‐contamination route, where a pathogen on a food product may evade heating by transmission via hands, kitchen utensils and other surfaces, e.g. to non‐contaminated products to be consumed raw; and the heating route, where pathogens remain on the food ...
Jun 9, 2011 · The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published its fast track risk assessment on consumer exposure to STEC/VTEC (Shiga toxin or verotoxin producing E.coli) through the consumption of raw vegetables and provided advice on options to mitigate the risks of possible food contamination and human infection. The strain (STEC O104:H4) responsible for the current outbreak in Germany, although ...
Jul 20, 2011 · The principle of the evaluation is to apply the cleaning efficiency of a recycling technology or process, obtained from a challenge test with surrogate contaminants, to a reference contamination level for post consumer PET, conservatively set a 3 mg/kg PET for a contaminant resulting from possible misuse. The resulting residual concentration of ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical substance used in combination with other chemicals to manufacture certain plastics and resins. BPA is used for example in polycarbonate plastic, a transparent and rigid type of plastic used to make water dispensers, food storage containers and reusable beverage bottles. The substance is also used to produce epoxy ...
Sep 17, 2020 · EFSA has set a new safety threshold for the main perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that accumulate in the body. The threshold – a group tolerable weekly intake (TWI) of 4.4 nanograms per kilogram of body weight per week – is part of a scientific opinion on the risks to human health arising from the presence of these substances in food. PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals that are ...
Apr 20, 2020 · EFSA has assessed the risks to public health from Listeria contamination of vegetables that are blanched – scalded in hot water or steam for a short time – before they are frozen. They conclude that the risks associated with the consumption of these products is lower than for ready-to-eat foods such as smoked fish, cooked meat, sausages, pâté, soft cheese – which are usually associated ...
