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Working groups

fish and fish products

fish and fish products

Working group fish and fish products

Tasks and objectives

  • Development and review of analytical methods
  • Planning and organisation of continuing professional development events
  • Preparation of opinions and proposed solutions to food law issues
  • Definition of quality criteria
  • Insights into industrial practice through site visits

Use of the preservatives sorbic acid and benzoic acid and their salts in cold-smoked fish/fish products
Status: 09/2014 (PDF)

  • Glazed fishery products – declaration of the glazing water in the list of ingredients, status June 2022 (PDF)
  • Labelling of fish purchased ready for slaughter in aquaculture businesses selling directly to consumers, status May 2019 (PDF)

  • CO treatment of tuna and tilapia
  • Labelling issues
  • Composition of tropical prawn species
  • Hygiene parameters of squid
  • Water addition in fishery products

Head of the working group

Chairman

Dr. Matthias Denker
State Office for Agriculture, Food Safety
and Fisheries of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Thierfelderstr. 18
18059 Rostock
Tel.:. 0381 4035-320
matthias.denker@lallf.mvnet.de

Deputy Chairwoman

Uta Harthun
State Laboratory Berlin-Brandenburg
uta.harthun@landeslabor-bbb.de

Secretary

LM-Chem. Simon Vollert
Institute for Hygiene and the Environment (Hamburg)
simon.vollert@hu.hamburg.de

Term of office 2025 - 2027

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