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BfR - Department 8: Safety in the Food Chain (BfR - SIN)

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Description

The main focus of the department safety in the food chain (including four different units) is the assessment of risks by intake of contaminants, residues and other undesirable substances from food and feedstuff. The following National Reference Laboratories are attached to the Department: National Reference Laboratory for Dioxins and PCBs in Food and Feed, for Mycotoxins, for monitoring of marine Biotoxins, for Additives for Use in Animal Nutrition and Senior Expert Office for the Import Control of Wine in accordance with the Wine Monitoring Ordinance. Other focusses are the analyses of product identity and the retraceability of food. Therefore strategies and methods to prove the authenticity of food are developed. The risk of residues in food of animal origin are assessed in terms of pharmacological active substances and veterinary drugs. The main focus of the unit „contaminants“ is to initiate and perform research projects, e.g. to develop analytical methods for contaminants or other substances that showed possible hazards in the early risk detection The field of work “feed safety” comprises all parts of the feed- manufacturing-chain, i.e. primary products, manufacturing of feedstuff and the feeding of production animals and domestic animals. Experiments are performed on production animals to study the carry over of undesirable substances in feed into food of animal origin. Furthermore, the department has some research activities, e.g. in the development of concepts to determine potentially toxicological substances and their metabolites in food and feedstuff. The Department supports the following BfR Committees: 'Feeds and Animal Nutrition', 'Contaminants and Other Undesirable Substances in the Food Chain', 'Wine and Fruit Juice Analyses', and 'Pharmacologically Active Substances and Veterinary Medicinal Products'.

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Activities

  • Research

Coordinated projects

Contact

BfR - Department 8: Safety in the Food Chain (BfR - SIN)
Marienfelde 07/5
12277 Berlin
Berlin
Germany

Phone: Telefon: +49-(0)30-18412-2362
Email: 8(@)bfr.bund.de

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