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Compliance
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What is DON in wheat?
DON, or deoxynivalenol, is the most common Fusarium mycotoxin in wheat. Wet weather at flowering drives it, and EU limits sit in…
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Are oats gluten free?
Oats do not contain wheat gluten, but ordinary oats are usually contaminated with wheat, barley or rye. Only specially produced and tested…
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Why is writing ‘absent’ in a specification a mistake?
Because no removal process is perfect, so a single fragment breaches the clause – and buyers who accept breaching lots destroy the…
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How is honey adulteration detected?
By a layered programme, not by one test. Isotope analysis misses C3 syrups, marker chromatography only finds listed markers, and profiling depends…
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Are hemp seeds legal to import into the EU as food?
Hulled hemp seed is an established food, but tetrahydrocannabinol levels and the novel food position of extracts both need checking for the…
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What grading standards apply to fruit in the EU?
Fresh produce falls under EU marketing standards. Frozen, dried and processed fruit does not, and is graded by contract specification against Codex…
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Is fumigation required for pulse export?
No, not as a general rule. Treatment is driven by lot condition, destination requirements and the contract, and Ukrainian processors mostly rely…
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Is pulse flour gluten-free?
Pulses contain no gluten, but pulse flour is only gluten-free as a labelled claim if the whole chain has been managed for…
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Which packaging materials count as food grade?
Food grade is not a property of a material but a documented conclusion about a specific material used in a specific way.…
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What language must an EU food label be in?
Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 requires mandatory particulars in a language easily understood by consumers in the member state where the food is…