26 | STATE GENERAL LABORATORY Plant toxins in foodstuffs: tropane alkaloids, pyrrolizidines alkaloids, opium alkaloids in certain foodstuffs, dioxins and PCBs. Radioactivity levels in foodstuffs (gamma radionuclides such as Cs-137, Cs-134, K-40 and Sr-90 in milk) and in feed supplements (Cs-137). Materials and products in contact with food and various substances, including endocrine disrupters (overall & specific migration of substances: polyadipates, cadmium, lead, aluminum, barium, cobalt, copper, iron, lithium, manganese, zinc, nickel, formaldehyde, phthalates, primary aromatic amines, melamine, styrene, bisphenol A, etc.) Genetically Modified Organisms (detection and quantification of GMOs in food and feed containing soya, maize, rice, honey, papaya, oilseed rape, flax, potato, wheat, sugar beet) Meat fraud (beef, pork, chicken-poultry, horse, turkey, goat, sheep) Fish fraud (detection of salmon, tuna and squid species, sardines) Milk products fraud (detection and quantification of cow, sheep and goat) Allergens (detection and quantification of 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). Food supplements [anabolic steroids, stimulants, vitamins, heavy metals (Hg, Pb, Cd, As), PDE- 5 inhibitors (sildenafil, vardenafil, tadalafil), pharmaceutical substances for weight loss (sibutramine, synephrine, hydrochlorothiazide, caffeine, phenolphthalein, triamterene, 2,4-dinitrophenol), and other pharmaceutical substances as yohimbine and levodopa in food supplements). Novel Foods / Nutrition and health claims of foodstuffs (according to EU Regulations 2283/2015 and 1924/2006 respectively). Chart 6: Foodstuffs control for allergens (2010-2022) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Complying samples Positive-non complying samples Samples >LOD <LOQ Positive-under monitoring samples 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 2021 2022
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