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Frozen Berry Specifications: Brix, Defects and Microbiological Limits
How to specify Brix, defect tolerances and microbiological criteria for frozen berries, including which EU regulations set the baseline and which limits…
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What microbiological limits apply to frozen berries in the EU?
Microbiological criteria for frozen berries rest on Reg. (EC) 2073/2005: food safety vs process hygiene criteria, sampling plans and what to test.
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Temperature Logging and Cold Chain Breaks: Evidence, Thresholds and What to Do
Recording obligations for quick-frozen food, the standards that govern the instruments, how to read an excursion, and a decision procedure for the…
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Crossing the EU Border with Frozen Food: Controls, Documents and Delay
The sequence of formalities on a Ukraine to EU frozen food movement: export clearance, transit, entry summary declaration, official controls, import declaration…
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What does a retailer mean by fifty per cent of MRL?
It is a private contractual requirement, stricter than the law, and it means that detected pesticide residues must not exceed a stated…
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EU Import Procedures for Frozen Food: The Whole Sequence
The complete sequence for importing frozen fruit and vegetables into the European Union: who does what, which documents exist at each step,…
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Customs Documentation Checklist for Frozen Food Exports
A working checklist of the documents a frozen food consignment from Ukraine to the EU needs, who issues each one, when it…
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What is TRACES NT and when do we need it?
TRACES NT is the European Commission’s online system for certification and official controls on consignments entering the Union. For a Ukrainian exporter…
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What is the difference between documentary, identity and physical checks?
These are the three levels of official control applied to consignments entering the Union under Regulation (EU) 2017/625. They are cumulative in…