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eu-regulation
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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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Mycotoxins in Cereals: EU Rules, Sampling and Testing
Mycotoxins in cereals are controlled by EU instruments for food and feed, but most disputes are about sampling. This guide maps the…
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Frozen Potato Products for the EU Market: Fries, Dice, Wedges and Flakes
The most technically demanding vegetable category, explained end to end. Why storage decides fry colour, how acrylamide mitigation is documented rather than…
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Honey Authenticity: Adulteration, Testing Methods and What a Certificate Proves
Honey is one of the most frequently adulterated foods in the EU import stream. This guide explains the two things that get…
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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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Fruit Grading for EU Import: Standards, Classes and What Actually Gets Checked
A working explanation of fruit grading for buyers importing into the EU: which marketing standards apply and to what, why a processing…
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Fruit Juice Concentrate: Brix, Concentration Ratio and How to Source It
How juice concentrate is actually traded. What reference Brix means and where the figures come from, how to calculate a concentration ratio…
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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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Organic Pulses from Ukraine: Certification, Segregation and What the Audit Trail Has to Show
What organic certification of Ukrainian pulses actually involves, how the certificate of inspection works for imports, where contamination and commingling risk concentrate,…
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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.…