Service portfolio
Product safety
- Conducting supplier audits worldwide across the entire value chain: producing, processing and packaging companies worldwide
- Special experience and know-how in the field of organic agriculture (no certification audits!)
- Preparation and revision of monitoring plans (raw materials inspection, production checks)
- Preparation and establishment of specifications (raw materials, semi-finished products, final products)
Statements / expert's opinions
- Residue findings in (organic) food products
- Residue findings in feed products
- To distinguish between residues and contaminants
- Evaluation and interpretation of complex (maximum) residue definitions
- Toxicological Assessments / Evaluations
- Aspects of food law
- Labelling of food products
- Nutrition declaration
- „Novel Food“
- ...
Analytical quality assurance
- Conducting technical lab audits
- Design, implementation and extensive evaluation of lab competency tests (announced or unannounced or also "undercover")
- Evaluation of laboratories' competencies related to previously identified activities (audits and/or competence tests) both on behalf of laboratories themselves and on behalf of laboratories' clients (external verification) within the context of quality-improvement-activities
- Development and realisation of the analytical-laboratory-quality-circle relana®
Training and seminars
Holding training sessions and seminars on the following topics:
- Analytical quality assurance in practice
- Analysis of pesticides and contaminants
- Assessment and interpretation of analysis results also in reference to maximum levels and toxicological parameters
- Basics of food law: National and EU law (guidelines, directives) relating to maximum levels, approvals, labelling, etc.
- Preparation of monitoring plans and/or specifications
- Staff coaching
- Strategic/business consulting in the field of laboratory services and related issues