Quality & Analytics

Sensory quality of fresh meat

How is the quality of fresh meat ordered? What are the most common deficiencies in which species? Does boar taint increase on pork? The new expert knowledge of the DLG (German Agricultural Society) provides answers. It contains the test results of the DLG quality tests for spiced and unseasoned fresh meat ...

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DLG complements its award portfolio with "product classics"

(DLG). A consistently high product quality is a key factor for the sustainable market success of food. The DLG (German Agricultural Society) now takes this into account with its new "DLG Classics" award. Only a product that has successfully participated in the DLG quality tests for at least five consecutive years and has received an award can lead to it ...

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KIN Food Institute: New Online Course for Food Lab Employees

As of January 2018, the KIN Food Institute is offering an online seminar for staff in food laboratories: MicroQLab. The course focuses on the requirements of DIN EN ISO / IEC 17025, which is the basis of work in all testing and calibration laboratories worldwide, and closes knowledge gaps in the correct implementation of quality management requirements ...

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Taste in words, colors and shapes

(DLG). About taste can not be argued when all speak the same language. Therefore, sensory perception must be translated into a verbal and non-verbal language, which all serves as a basis for communication. How this can be achieved in practice, explained the Lebensmitteltag sensors of the DLG (German Agricultural Society) ...

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Hardly drug residues

"The meat of pigs, poultry and cattle in the German market is loaded only in individual cases with drugs. That was the main is" National Residue Control Plan ". For him, the control of foodstuffs has almost 60 000 examined product samples of animal origin. Antibiotics were in 4 percent of 170 samples from non-EU countries detectable, but only in 0,1 18 000 percent of samples from the EU ... "

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Counterfeiting of food of animal origin in future be more readily detected

Berlin.Does the feta cheese and cow's milk? Is processed in the beef salami and pork? These and other questions about adulteration of food of animal origin at the center of today officially launched the research project "Animal ID"The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). "Illegal admixtures of meat, if they are discovered, unsettle not only consumers, but can also pose health risks", says BfR President Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel.

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