News and updates
LQM joins the GBA Group
The GBA Group, founded in 1989, specialising in food, environmental and pharmaceutical analysis and LQM, a leading laboratory and global provider of analytical services, inspection and consultancy in the Food and Environmental sectors, have announced their future together. The coming together of the two companies creates additional value for our...
MINERAL OILS (MOSH AND MOAH) AND 3-MCPD MIGRATION ON BAKING PAPER
Germany has notified RASFF of mineral oil contamination (MOSH and MOAHs) and the migration of 3-MCPD into baking paper forms used as wrapper of muffins . This paper comes from China and has been introduced to the EU through Spain being distributed to other member countries (Germany, Slovakia and Slovenia). MOSH AND MOAH Mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOHs)...
FIPRONIL. ALERT EXTENDED TO CHICKEN MEAT
The number of countries where FIPRONIL contaminated eggs have been distributed continues to grow. There are already 17 countries where eggs have been distributed according to the RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed). ...
NEW EUROPEAN REGULATION ON ACRYLAMIDE
The European Commission has approved a Regulation on mitigation measures and the reference levels of acrylamide which is expected to take effect in the second quarter of 2018. The text of the Regulation includes practices to reduce the content of acrylamide , not only in cultivation and production processes but also in households. These practices will be...
LQM expands its scope of accreditation
In our desire to offer our customers the most extensive catalog of accreditations, we are pleased to announce that ENAC has published the new scope in which we expand the following parameters and matrices: Chloramphenicol in milk and dairy products Acrylamide in olives, being the first laboratory in Spain accredited , in response to the...
