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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?
The legal framework is Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs, as amended. It distinguishes food safety criteria, which apply…
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Organic Certification in Ukraine: From Control Body to Certificate of Inspection
Control bodies, operator certificates, mass balance and the TRACES NT certificate of inspection: what organic supply from Ukraine to the EU requires…
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Export Documentation from Ukraine to the EU: The Document Set and Its Sequence
Commercial, transport, customs and food-specific documents for exporting food from Ukraine to the EU, with the dependencies that decide whether a truck…
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What documents are needed to export food from Ukraine to the EU?
Every consignment needs a commercial invoice, a packing list, a transport document such as a CMR, and an export customs declaration. On…
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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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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…