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meyer.science GmbH is specialized in scientific and regulatory consulting for national and international companies in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Our services also include advice in the fields of food contact materials and other consumer products such as toys and textiles.

Our clients benefit from an interdisciplinary approach; our close cooperation with the law firm meyer.rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH enables our clients to obtain scientific, regulatory and legal advice from one source. The close cooperation with an extended network of European and further international experts completes our consulting profile by enabling us to take into account the particularities of the relevant markets.

In addition, we gain valuable experience through our involvement in numerous professional associations, through publications in specialist journals and by organizing conferences, seminars and in-house courses. Our clients also benefit from our well established contacts to authorities and associations.

Dr. Uta Verbeek
Managing director 

 

News

 

We offer you the latest information from the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the German Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) as well as other news concerning foods, food contact materials, cosmetics, medicinal products and medical devices etc.

Information
01. September 2022 Category: Contaminants

Ethylene oxide – Maximum levels in food additives

A maximum level of 0.1 mg/kg for ethylene oxide (sum of ethylene oxide and 2-chloroethanol) has been set with Regulation (EU) No. 2022/1396 (OJ L 211, 12.8.2022, p. 182–184) amending Regulation (EC) No. 231/2012. The maximum level will apply from...
Information
18. January 2022 Category: Novel Food

NOVEL FOOD - New authorisation: Coffee Cherry Pulp

With the implementing regulation (EU) 2022/47, the pulp of the coffee cherry, dried or as an infusion thereof, was approved as a novel food. The regulation is applicable from 03 February 2022. The placing on the market of the novel food is not...
Information
07. December 2021 Category: Additives

EFSA finalises re-evaluation of E471

EFSA published the re-evaluation of mono- and digylcerides of fatty acids (E471) for infants under the age of 16 weeks on 08/11/21. According to EFSA, there are no safety concerns when using the food additive in infant formulae (food category (FC)...
Information
07. December 2021 Category: Contaminants

Talk on ethylene oxide at the dti-Quality Forum

On 23 November 2021, Prof. Alfred Hagen Meyer and Dr. Uta Verbeek were invited as experts on the topic of ethylene oxide at the Quality Forum of the German Frozen Food Institute (dti).In the lecture "Ethylene oxide in food - recalls in the EU", the...
Information
05. December 2021 Category: Novel Food

NOVEL FOOD - New authorisation: Migratory locust

On 5 December 2021, the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) was authorised as a novel food (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1975). For a period of 5 years, only the original applicant, the Dutch company Fair Insects BV, may place the novel food...
Information
05. December 2021 Category: Novel Food

NOVEL FOOD - New authorization: Miracle Berry

On 5 December 2021, the miracle berry (Synsepalum dulcificum) was authorised as a novel food (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1974). For a period of 5 years, only the original applicant, the Spanish company Medicinal Gardens S.L., may place the...

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We will gladly bring you up to date in our seminars in the fields of health claims, scientific risk assessment or crisis management. We also offer in-house workshops within your enterprise on various other topics such as definition issues (e.g. foods vis-à-vis medicinal products), novel food, botanicals etc.

Date: 23.11.2021 | Presentation
meyerscience Veranstaltungen

Talk on ethylene oxide at the dti-Quality Forum

 

On 23 November 2021, Prof. Alfred Hagen Meyer and Dr. Uta Verbeek were invited as experts on the topic of ethylene oxide at the Quality Forum of the German Frozen Food Institute (dti).In the lecture "Ethylene oxide in food - recalls in the EU", the dti members were presented with causes, risk assessment, regulatory and solution approaches. Furthermore, the current situation and developments were discussed.

In the course of the ethylene oxide issue, which has been ongoing since autumn 2020, frozen food was particularly affected in the form of ice cream, which contained contaminated stabilisers, e.g. locust bean gum.

You can find further information and guests of the dti- Quality Forum in the event flyer.

meyerscience Veranstaltungen

Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Alfred Hagen Meyer & Dr. Uta Verbeek

Books

 

Our publications - written together with our cooperation partner meyer.rechtsanwaltsgesellschafts mbH - offer you the ability to obtain a detailed and up-to-date overview of the latest developments in the fields of i.a. food fraud, novel food or botanicals.

meyerscience Bücher Food Fraud

FOOD FRAUD
Lebensmittelbetrug
Fälle - Recht - Analysen – Maßnahmen

von Anna Stein
& Anna Lena Märtlbauer

meyerscience Bücher Novel Food

NEUE NOVEL FOOD
VERORDNUNG 2015/2283

Fälle – Recht - Verfahren

von Prof. Dr. Alfred Hagen Meyer unter Mitarbeit von ...

meyerscience Bücher Ampelkennzeichnung

„AMPEL“- KENNZEICHNUNG GASTRO-AMPEL, HYGIENE-AMPEL, NÄHRWERTPROFILE
eine kritische Auseinandersetzung

von Lisa Kolb

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meyer.science GmbH is specialized in scientific and regulatory consulting for national and international companies in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Our services also include advice in the fields of food contact materials and other consumer products such as toys and textiles.

Our clients benefit from an interdisciplinary approach; our close cooperation with the law firm meyer.rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH enables our clients to obtain scientific, regulatory and legal advice from one source. The close cooperation with an extended network of European and further international experts completes our consulting profile by enabling us to take into account the particularities of the relevant markets.

In addition, we gain valuable experience through our involvement in numerous professional associations, through publications in specialist journals and by organizing conferences, seminars and in-house courses. Our clients also benefit from our well established contacts to authorities and associations.

Dr. Uta Verbeek
Managing director 

 

News

 

We offer you the latest information from the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the German Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) as well as other news concerning foods, food contact materials, cosmetics, medicinal products and medical devices etc.

Information
01. September 2022 Category: Contaminants

Ethylene oxide – Maximum levels in food additives

A maximum level of 0.1 mg/kg for ethylene oxide (sum of ethylene oxide and 2-chloroethanol) has been set with Regulation (EU) No. 2022/1396 (OJ L 211, 12.8.2022, p. 182–184) amending Regulation (EC) No. 231/2012. The maximum level will apply from...
Information
18. January 2022 Category: Novel Food

NOVEL FOOD - New authorisation: Coffee Cherry Pulp

With the implementing regulation (EU) 2022/47, the pulp of the coffee cherry, dried or as an infusion thereof, was approved as a novel food. The regulation is applicable from 03 February 2022. The placing on the market of the novel food is not...
Information
07. December 2021 Category: Additives

EFSA finalises re-evaluation of E471

EFSA published the re-evaluation of mono- and digylcerides of fatty acids (E471) for infants under the age of 16 weeks on 08/11/21. According to EFSA, there are no safety concerns when using the food additive in infant formulae (food category (FC)...
Information
07. December 2021 Category: Contaminants

Talk on ethylene oxide at the dti-Quality Forum

On 23 November 2021, Prof. Alfred Hagen Meyer and Dr. Uta Verbeek were invited as experts on the topic of ethylene oxide at the Quality Forum of the German Frozen Food Institute (dti).In the lecture "Ethylene oxide in food - recalls in the EU", the...
Information
05. December 2021 Category: Novel Food

NOVEL FOOD - New authorisation: Migratory locust

On 5 December 2021, the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) was authorised as a novel food (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1975). For a period of 5 years, only the original applicant, the Dutch company Fair Insects BV, may place the novel food...
Information
05. December 2021 Category: Novel Food

NOVEL FOOD - New authorization: Miracle Berry

On 5 December 2021, the miracle berry (Synsepalum dulcificum) was authorised as a novel food (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1974). For a period of 5 years, only the original applicant, the Spanish company Medicinal Gardens S.L., may place the...

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Events

 

We will gladly bring you up to date in our seminars in the fields of health claims, scientific risk assessment or crisis management. We also offer in-house workshops within your enterprise on various other topics such as definition issues (e.g. foods vis-à-vis medicinal products), novel food, botanicals etc.

Date: 23.11.2021 | Presentation
meyerscience Veranstaltungen

Talk on ethylene oxide at the dti-Quality Forum

 

On 23 November 2021, Prof. Alfred Hagen Meyer and Dr. Uta Verbeek were invited as experts on the topic of ethylene oxide at the Quality Forum of the German Frozen Food Institute (dti).In the lecture "Ethylene oxide in food - recalls in the EU", the dti members were presented with causes, risk assessment, regulatory and solution approaches. Furthermore, the current situation and developments were discussed.

In the course of the ethylene oxide issue, which has been ongoing since autumn 2020, frozen food was particularly affected in the form of ice cream, which contained contaminated stabilisers, e.g. locust bean gum.

You can find further information and guests of the dti- Quality Forum in the event flyer.

meyerscience Veranstaltungen

Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Alfred Hagen Meyer & Dr. Uta Verbeek

Books

 

Our publications - written together with our cooperation partner meyer.rechtsanwaltsgesellschafts mbH - offer you the ability to obtain a detailed and up-to-date overview of the latest developments in the fields of i.a. food fraud, novel food or botanicals.

meyerscience Bücher Food Fraud

FOOD FRAUD
Lebensmittelbetrug
Fälle - Recht - Analysen – Maßnahmen

von Anna Stein
& Anna Lena Märtlbauer

meyerscience Bücher Novel Food

NEUE NOVEL FOOD
VERORDNUNG 2015/2283

Fälle – Recht - Verfahren

von Prof. Dr. Alfred Hagen Meyer unter Mitarbeit von ...

meyerscience Bücher Ampelkennzeichnung

„AMPEL“- KENNZEICHNUNG GASTRO-AMPEL, HYGIENE-AMPEL, NÄHRWERTPROFILE
eine kritische Auseinandersetzung

von Lisa Kolb

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