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June 13, 2007
Histamine emergency in Malaysia
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Last week (23th week) the European Community Alert System has reported, in few days, severe contamination of fish products by histamine; the contaminated fish came from Malaysia.Histamine has been detected in dried anchovies, in salted dried queen fish and salted dried mackerel, dried mackerel and dried anchovies gutted. All the notifications have been made by UK. [continue...]ec.europa.eu/...
February 13, 2007
Contaminated honey
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Since the beginning of the year, EC service RASFF is reporting every week contaminations of honey matrix. [continue...]October 23, 2006
New test kits to confirm results of microbial inhibition assays
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Recently Tecna renewed the kit ELISA line to detect antibiotics, introducing three new kits to measure neomycn, gentamicin and tylosin residues:I’screen Neomycin (AB672)
I’screen Gentamicin (AB670)
I’screen Tylosin (AB626) [continue...]
July 28, 2005
Chloramphenicol in shrimps
Chloramphenicol, banned for agricultural use in most countries, is still a big problem for shrimps trade.Since 1994 the antibiotic has been banned by the European Union. In the same way also the USA Food and Drugs Administration established a limit for detection of Chloramphenicol at 5 ppb, limit that has been lowered by the time to 0.3 ppb, considered the lower limit of detection. [continue...]