Residues of Mineral Oil and Synthetic Hydrocarbons in Food

Representatives from the regulatory authorities, the industry as well as the scientific fields are presenting the most pressing questions on how to deal with mineral oil hydrocarbons in food including food contact materials during this online conference.

25.01. — 26.01.2024
Online Conference
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Übersicht

Residues like mineral oil hydrocarbons are strictly regulated within the European Union. The risk management and toxicological assessment of residues, essential to produce compliant products, poses challenges across the entire food industry.

The conference brings together representatives from regulatory and industry backgrounds, as well as political decision-makers to discuss the latest regulatory developments. It keeps track of scientific progress, advances in food analysis and recent developments in risk assessment.

Highlights

  • European Community policy on mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) in food
  • EFSA assessment of mineral oil hydrocarbons in food
  • JRC's activities and challenges towards the MOSH/MOAH analyses harmonisation
  • International standardisation work on mineral oil hydrocarbons
  • Quantification of MOAH by number of aromatic rings
  • Wax and oil related topics from the perspective of the European Wax Federation
  • The MOSH/MOAH issue from the perspective of the food industry

Who should attend this conference?

Professionals working in the fields of:

  • Analysis
  • Quality assurance & control
  • Product safety
  • Raw material control
  • Regulatory affairs & support
  • Research & development
  • Toxicology

Sectors taking part:

  • Food and drink industry
  • Packaging industry
  • Food retailing
  • Food inspection offices
  • Laboratories
  • Research institutes
  • Authorities
  • Professional associations

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Programm

Thursday, 25 January 2024

The indicated times refer to Central European Time CET.



Afternoon Session | 13:30 – 17:30
Welcome address by Akademie Fresenius and introduction by the Chairs

Thomas Gude, SQTS Swiss Quality Testing Services, Switzerland
Thomas Simat, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany

Risk management and risk assessment updates
Recent and future developments of the EU legislation in the field of mineral oil hydrocarbons in food

Veerle Vanheusden, European Commission, Belgium

EFSA assessment of mineral oil hydrocarbons in food

James Kevin Chipman, formerly the University of Birmingham, UK

Analytical situation
Activity of the EC Joint Research Centre in the field of mineral oil in food and challenges towards the MOSH/MOAH analyses harmonisation

Stefanka Bratinova, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium

Analytical approaches to determine MOAH

Christophe Goldbeck, Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA), Germany

Quantification of MOAH by number of aromatic rings via GCxGC: First results in food

Maurus Biedermann, Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

Analysis of undesirable hydrocarbons (MOSH/MOAH) in food: Establishment of a new routine method for the separate determination of MOAH with 1-2 and ≥3 aromatic rings

Martin Lommatzsch, Laboratory Lommatzsch & Säger, Germany

17:30
End of the first conference day


Friday, 26 January 2024

The indicated times refer to Central European Time CET.



Morning Session | 9:45 – 13:00
What is needed to settle the mineral oil issue?
  • To do for MOSH and pre-digested MOSH
  • The case of dairy products
  • To do for MOAH
  • Goal: Removal of uncertainties

Konrad Grob, retired from the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

International standardisation work on mineral oil hydrocarbons

Ludger Brühl, Max Rubner-Institut (MRI), Germany

Industry experience
Wax and oil related topics from the perspective of the European Wax Federation

Dirk Danneels, European Wax Federation (EWF), Belgium

The MOSH/MOAH issue from the perspective of an ingredient supplier

Manufacturer and distributor of ingredients (invited)

13:00
End of the online conference

Referent:innen

Name

Unternehmen

Biedermann

Maurus Biedermann

Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

Maurus Biedermann is a Chemical Analyst and Laboratory Head at the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich. He has more than 30 years of experience in food analysis and was involved in the development of large volume on-column GC injection and the on-line coupling of HPLC with GC.

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Bratinova

Stefanka Bratinova

European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium

Stefanka Bratinova is an Analytical Chemist and a Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Geel. From 2004 to 2010 she worked on temporary contracts in EURL-FCM in Ispra, joined the Unit of Food Safety at JRC-Geel (former IRMM) in 2012 and returned back to EURL-FCM activities after JRC seized to operate the teams of EURL-PAHs and EURL-Mycotoxins.

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Ludger Brühl

Max Rubner-Institut (MRI), Germany

Chipman

James Kevin Chipman

formerly the University of Birmingham, UK

James Kevin Chipman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham UK and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor. His research speciality is on molecular mechanisms of cellular toxicity and ecotoxicology with an emphasis on toxicogenomics, genotoxicity and epigenetics. He is a former member of the UK Committee on Toxicology, and of the UK Department of Health Committee on Safety of Medicines. He also served as former President of the British Toxicology Society and Director of the International Union of Toxicology. He currently is a member of EFSA CONTAM Panel and various working groups. In 2020 he became the Chair of the EFSA WG on MOH in food.

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Danneels

Dirk F. Danneels

European Wax Federation (EWF), Belgium

Dirk F. Danneels was retired in 2015 and spent most of his career in the chemical industry, the last 25 years with the Honeywell’s “Performance Materials and Technologies” business. Since 2006 he has been leading globally all Honeywell’s REACH related activities. In 2009 he took on the role of Secretary General for the European Wax Federation.

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Goldbeck

Christophe Goldbeck

Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL), Germany

Christophe Goldbeck is a state-certified Food Chemist and has been active for many years as an expert in the field of consumer goods. At the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL), he works in the field of consumer goods, cosmetics and tobacco and has over 15 years of experience in the area of consumer goods.

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Grob

Konrad Grob

retired from the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

Konrad Grob retired as a Chemical Analyst of the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich in 2019. He is an expert in risk assessment at the CEP Panel of EFSA, in several EFSA working gropus and in the Bedarfsgegenständekommission of the German BfR.

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Gude

Thomas Gude

SQTS Swiss Quality Testing Services, Switzerland

Thomas Gude has been the Deputy Head of SQTS, Switzerland, for over 18 years. He is heading the laboratories dealing with food and non-food analysis as well as with risk assessments.

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Lommatzsch

Martin Lommatzsch

Laboratory Lommatzsch & Säger, Germany

Martin Lommatzsch has founded Laboratory Lommatzsch & Säger in 2018 offering routine & comprehensive analysis as well as research projects with focus on MOSH/MOAH and FCM. He was PhD student of the Technical University Dresden (Chair of the Food Science and FCM) in cooperation with the Cantonal Laboratory Zurich, G&G Department, from 2012 to 2015.

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Simat

Thomas Simat

Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany

Thomas Simat has been a Professor and the Chair of Food Science and FCM at the Technische Universität Dresden with research on FCM since 2003. He is the Chairman of the ‘German BfR Committee on Consumer Products’’.

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Vanheusden

Veerle Vanheusden

European Commission, Belgium

Veerle Vanheusden is a Policy Officer in DG SANTE of the European Commission. She joined the European Commission in 2013, where she worked for four years in the Unit “Pesticides and Biocides”. In 2017 she moved to the Unit dealing with food processing technologies and novel foods, where her main area of activity is the EU policy and legislation on contaminants. She has previously worked in the private pharmaceutical sector.

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