‘Transparency’, ‘Traceability’, ‘Sustainable standards’, ‘good agricultural practices’ and ‘zero-deforestation’ are all fine terms which [alongside many others] have emerged in connection with the cocoa sector’s certification process. But does the reality of this process justify using such terms...
This report presents the results of the 17th inter-laboratory comparison (ILC) organised as a proficiency test (PT) by the European Union Reference Laboratory for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (EURL PAHs) on the determination of the four EU marker PAHs, benz[a]anthracene (BAA), benzo[a]pyrene...
La Unión Europea (UE) es el mercado único más grande del mundo. Muchos exportadores de todo el mundo quieren vender sus productos en el mercado de la UE y, por tanto, satisfacer la gran demanda de los consumidores. A veces los exportadores consideran que carecen de información sobre cómo exporta...
This report presents the results of the tenth inter-laboratory comparison (ILC) organised by the European Union Reference Laboratory for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (EU-RL PAHs) on the determination of the four EU marker PAHs, benz[a]anthracene (BAA), benzo[a]pyrene (BAP), benzo[b]fluoranth...
A European collaborative trial has been conducted to validate an analytical approach comprising method procedures for the determination of milk fat and the detection and the quantification of cocoa butter equivalents (CBEs) in milk chocolate. The whole approach is based on (i) comprehensive stan...
Acrylamide (AA) is a substance that has found widespread application in industry, e.g. for the purification of drinking water and in food packaging. Due to its toxicological properties, legal limits have been set for both drinking water and for migration into food....
A European collaborative study has been conducted to validate an analytical procedure for the quantification of cocoa butter equivalents in cocoa butter and plain chocolate. In principle, the fat obtained from plain chocolate according to the Soxhlet principle is separated by high-resolution gas...
