State General Laboratory Annual Report 2018

33 State General Laboratory Annual Report 2018 0 30 60 90 120 150 Official Control of Plastic products in contact with food over the years 2008 - 2018 2010 2009 2018 2017 2008 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Total analysed samples Non-compliant samples Number of samples Official Control of plastic products in contact with food over the years 2008-2018  Genetically Modified Organisms (Detection of GMOs in food and feed containing soya, maize, rice, honey, papaya, oilseed rape, flax).  Meat fraud (Beef, pork, chicken-poultry, horse, turkey, fish).  Allergens (Milk, soya, egg, fish, crustacean, peanut, mustard, celery, hazelnut, almond, walnut, pistachio, gluten, sesame, lupin, mollusks and cashew).  Microbiological quality of foodstuffs ( Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter spp., Cronobacter spp ., coagulase-positive staphylococci, staphylococcal enterotoxins, Bacillus cereus, Enterobacteriaceae, Escherichia coli , Shiga toxin - producing E. coli, E. coli O157, Clostridium perfringens , aerobic and anaerobic colony count, yeasts and moulds, noroviruses, hepatitis A virus).  Food supplements (Anabolic Steroids, Stimulants, Vitamins, Heavy metals, PDE- 5 analogs, pharmaceutical substances for weight loss (Sibutramine HCl, Synephrine, Hydrochlorothiazide, Caffeine, Phenolphthalein, Triamterene, 2,4-Dinitrophenol), 1,3-DMAA (1,3-Dimethylamylamine) and other pharmaceutical substances as Levodopa in Food Supplements).  Novel Foods / Nutrition and health claims of foodstuffs (according to EU Regulations 258/97, 2283/2015 and 1924/2006 respectively).

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