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BfR - Department 8: Safety in the Food Chain (BfR - SIN)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The main focus of the department safety in the food chain (including four different units) is the assessment of risks by intake of contaminants, residues and other undesirable substances from food and feedstuff.
The following National Reference Laboratories are attached to the Department: National Reference Laboratory for Dioxins and PCBs in Food and Feed, for Mycotoxins, for monitoring of marine Biotoxins, for Additives for Use in Animal Nutrition and Senior Expert Office for the Import Control of Wine in accordance with the Wine Monitoring Ordinance.
Other focusses are the analyses of product identity and the retraceability of food. Therefore strategies and methods to prove the authenticity of food are developed. The risk of residues in food of animal origin are assessed in terms of pharmacological active substances and veterinary drugs.
The main focus of the unit „contaminants“ is to initiate and perform research projects, e.g. to develop analytical methods for contaminants or other substances that showed possible hazards in the early risk detection
The field of work “feed safety” comprises all parts of the feed- manufacturing-chain, i.e. primary products, manufacturing of feedstuff and the feeding of production animals and domestic animals. Experiments are performed on production animals to study the carry over of undesirable substances in feed into food of animal origin.
Furthermore, the department has some research activities, e.g. in the development of concepts to determine potentially toxicological substances and their metabolites in food and feedstuff.
The Department supports the following BfR Committees: 'Feeds and Animal Nutrition', 'Contaminants and Other Undesirable Substances in the Food Chain', 'Wine and Fruit Juice Analyses', and 'Pharmacologically Active Substances and Veterinary Medicinal Products'.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Analysis of antibiotic residues in matrices of plant origin
- Analysis of dioxins and PCBs - Studies on the influence of the eluant, the extraction method and the treated matrix on type and amount of the extracted fat at the sample preparation
- Analysis of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) in wild boar liver and their relevance as environmental pollutants for food safety
- Analysis of Wine by spectroscopical and statistical methods for authentication
- Authentication of feed - development of a spectral data base
- Authentication of maize as food and feed material
- Bioavailability of tenderisers in dust and food after oral intake in the model organism pig
- Collaborative project: Development of a system for collection, analysis and utilization of product data for authenticity in the food sector – subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Studies on the carry-over of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in livestock
- Cultivation of PA-producing plants for the isolation of standards
- Delivering an effective, resilient and sustainable EU-China food safety partnership
- Detection of melamine and cyanuric acid in feeding stuff containing LC-MS / MS
- Determination halogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (XPAH) in food and feed
- Determination of 2-and 3-MCPD-fatty acids esters in human milk
- Determination of Alternaria toxins in food and feed
- Determination of fatty acid esters of 3-chloro-1,2-propanediol (3-MCPD) in foodstuffs
- Determination of Flavophospholipol in feedingstuffs
- Determination of glycidyl- and MCPD-fatty acid esters in infant formula Analysis by different methods
- Determination of levels of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in the ruminal fluid
- Determination of mycotoxins in grape musts and wine by multi mykotoxin methods
- Determination of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in feed materials and compound feed by LC-MS/MS (CEN/TC 327 Mandate M/523/Part 3 Issue 7.)
- Determination of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food and feed (Start-up funding of a research project BMELV)
- Determination of the influence of technological processing procedures on the content of perfluorocarboxylic (PFCA) and perfluorosulfonic (PFAS) in pork, which is processed into sausage and meat products
- Development and validation of an analysis method for the selective determination of zearalenone in vegetable oils (ZENOL)
- Development and validation of methods for the simultaneous determination of more than 500 pesticides in food and water using Q TRAP LC-MS/MS
- Development of a method of analysis for the determination of glyciol fatty acid estern in oil, fat and fat containing foodstuffs
- Development of an LC-MS/MS method for the determination of Ciguatoxins in fish
- Development of analysis methods for the determination of ergot alkaloids and monitoring in selected food and feed
- Development of analytical methods for mass spectrometric determination of helenanolide type sesquiterpene lactones in arnica and food relevant matrices (e.g. honey)
- Ensuring the Integrity of the European Food Chain
- Feeding of contaminated feed with melamine to laying hens to determine the carry over rate of melamine in eggs.
- Feeding of contaminated feed with tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobae) to small ruminants to determine the carry over rate of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in milk from small ruminants and to evaluate and validate a test method for the detection of PA´s in naturally contaminated samples
- Follow experiment RUSITEC with perfluorinated tensides (PFT)
- Food authentication by Food-Fingerprinting with NMR spectroscopy and other spectroscopic techniques
- From Forest to Fork - Contamination of game meat through bullet particles. A study of bullet abrasions and fragmentation.
- Identification and analysis of selected pharmacological active substances
- Impact of mycotoxins on the production of insect based feed
- Improving protein quality of roughages in ruminant nutrition by using silage additives on the basis of condensated tannins - subproject 4
- In-vitro investigations on the influence of glyphosate containing herbicides on microbial metabolism and the diversity of microbial population in the rumen of cows with special interest to clostridia.
- Investigation of hepatotoxic and genotoxic potential as well as metabolism of food relvant pyrrolizidine alkaloids
- Investigation of the bioavailability of lead as a function of the particle size of lead-containing bullet fragments in game meat by feeding trial
- Investigation of the biotransformation of undesirable substances and contaminants in silages and during the ruminal fermentation
- Investigation of the in vitro metabolism of pyrrolizidine alkaloids
- Investigations of excretion and accumulation of non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (ndl-PCB) in dairy cows
- Investigations of feed for honey bees and the analysis of possible residues of lithium chloride in bee products and their influence on bee behaviour
- Investigations of the mechanism of matrix effects occurring during ionization in LC-MS/MS instruments. Development of proposals to enhance the accuracy of residue determinations.
- Investigations of the microbial status of caviar from the retail market and wholesale with special emphasis of the occurrence of aquatic mycobacteria.
- Investigations on the carry over of Maduramicin from feed to egg
- Investigations on the influence of hunting related determinants on food safety and -hygiene of free range wild game meat
- Investigations on the transfer of non-dioxin like PCBs from feed into meat and eggs of broilers and laying hens
- Lead in game meat after cooking treatment - bioavailability of the lead from ammunition - feeding study with pigs
- Mass spectrometric studies on the in vitro metabolism of pyrrolizidine alkaloids
- Mechanisms and minimisation of matrix effects in quantitative trace analytics with electrospray mass spectrometry
- Multi-mycotoxin analytics of pulses
- Occurrence and fate of mycotoxins along the fruit juice processing chain – Development of a multi method for the detection of multiple contaminations with mycotoxins and identification of relevant impact factors
- Occurrence of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids (PA) in food
- PFAA and Precursors Soil Plant Contamination
- Production of Alternaria toxins for analytical purpose
- Quantification of residues of coccidiostats in feed and food of animal origin caused by carry over from contaminated feed.
- Reviewing the application of Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography (HILIC) for the determination of highly polar and ionic pesticide active ingredients
- Risk assessment of bedding materials in livestock production
- Safe Food and Feed through an Integrated ToolBox for Mycotoxin Management
- SafeGuard. Work package 3.3 Quality control, analytics: Procedures and forecasting models in risk-oriented feed and food analysis and monitoring
- Studies on the influence of sampling on the levels of dioxins and PCBs in fish
- Tender Mycotoxine: Foodstuffs - Determination of T-2 and HT-2 toxin in cereal based foods for infants and young children by LC-MS/MS
- Transfer and transformation of DSP toxins in blue mussels (Mytilus edulis L.)
- Transfer of mycotoxins from soil into agricultural useful plants using the example of Alternaria toxins and wheat plants
- Transfer of THC and THC metabolite
- Use of the high resolution Exactive mass spectrometer for the residue analysis of pharmacologically active substances (Transfer of pharmacologically active substances into food of plant origin)
- Verification of purity commercially available ergotalkaloids standards by determining the extinction coefficient for the photometric determination and application of qNMR
Involved in research projects
Contact
BfR - Department 8: Safety in the Food Chain
(BfR - SIN)
Marienfelde 07/5
12277 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Phone: Telefon: +49-(0)30-18412-2362
Email: 8(@)bfr.bund.de