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25.11.2022 - Foods

89th Conference of the ALTS published

The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has published the resolutions of the 89th ALTS working conference (ALTS: Working group of experts in the field of food hygiene and foods of animal origin).

The following resolutions are included:

-      Prominent images of fruits in connection with the highlighted indication "STRAWBERRY" or "BANANA" in the main display of a dairy product with only 0.1% fruit juice

-      Designation "cooked ham" for cooked cured products from chicken

-      Temperature requirements for sushi with raw fish, crustaceans and mollusks and/or parts thereof, as well as sashimi at the retail level

-      QUID in meat products that are made using meat from various animal species

-      Mechanical recovery of residual meat from larynx and trachea

-      Defrosting notice for raw ham cubes made from originally frozen raw ham

-      "...mett in the style of a fresh onion mett sausage" - differentiation of mett from fresh mett sausage/onion mett sausage

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Source: 

Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) - https://www.bvl.bund.de 

Link: https://www.bvl.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/01_Lebensmittel/ALS_ALTS/ALTS_Beschluesse_89_Arbeitstagung_Jun_22.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2