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MRI - National Reference Centre for Authentic Food (MRI-NRZ)
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Max Rubner-Institut - Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food (MRI)
Coordinated projects
- Arrangement of contacts to existing collections of authentic food reference materials necessary for food authenticity related projects
- Detection of added enzymes in food using mass spectrometry
- Development and provision of analytical databases for data evaluation for the official food control authorities.
- Development and provision of knowledge databases for the official food control authorities.
- Development of analytical methods for food authenticity control
- Development of rapid and user-friendly DNA-based tests for fish species verification
- Interface between/recommendation of project partners or of subject specific information concerning food authenticity research resp. method development
- Organisation of a collaborative ring trial for plant sample authentication by DNA barcoding
- Organization of a collaborative ring trial for real-time PCR-based detection of species adulteration in sheep and goat milk products
- Organization of subject-specific events
- Pooling and provision of subject-specific information using an online platform
- Production and provision of spiked food samples for ring trial based method validations of the § 64 LFGB working groups of the Federal Offfice of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
- Stable isotopes for the differentiation of eggs from barn, free-range and organic farming in the German food retail industry
- Support of the official food control authorities with the validation of analytical methods for food authenticity control for a final use as official analytical method according to § 64 LFGB
Contact
MRI - National Reference Centre for Authentic Food
(MRI-NRZ)
E.-C.-Baumann-Straße 20
95326 Kulmbach
Bavaria
Germany
Phone: 09221 803-1
Email: kontakt(@)mri.bund.de