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BfR - Department 5: Food Safety (BfR - LMS)

The Food Safety Department assesses the substance risks from food. The substances for assessment may be contained naturally as ingredients in food or may be admixed to food as additives or flavourings. Undesirable substances, which reach food during manufacturing, storage or treatment processes, are also evaluated. The Department likewise assesses foods on the basis of nutritional-medical criteria. In this context, infant formula plays an important role. The Department voices its opinion on food risks and nutritional prevention. Another major area of the Department’s work is the elaboration of opinions in the field of novel foods and genetically manufactured food and feed. In the Department modern molecular and cell biological methods are developed and used in order to identify new biological endpoints for the risk assessment of potentially risky substances. Furthermore, innovative detection methods and strategies/methods for the molecular traceability and product identity of food are developed and applied. The Department is actively engaged in research in the field of molecular and biochemical food safety. It seeks to identify the mechanisms of action with a view to elaborating concrete management options for consumer protection. The Department supports the following BfR Committees: 'Nutrition, Dietetic Products, Novel Foods and Allergies', 'Genetically Modified Food and Feed', and 'Food additives, Flavourings and Processing Aids'.

Parent institution:

Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) Details of BfR

Address

BfR - Department 5: Food Safety (BfR - LMS)
Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10
10589 Berlin

Berlin

Phone: +49-(0)30-18412-3747
Fax: +49-(0)30-18412-3685

email: 5(@)bfr.bund.de

Activities:

  • Research

Focus of Research:

  • Development and validation of new molecular biological approaches to the tracing of food allergens and associated proteins in animal feed
  • Development of effect-related cell-based assay systems for impact-oriented analysis
  • Molecular mechanisms of food- and nutrition-toxicologically relevant substances (including nanoparticles) in people with a focus on the identification of novel molecular biomarkers using proteomics and transcriptomics techniques
  • Study the absorption of food contaminants in the gastrointestinal barrier

Coordinated projects

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