Food, biotechnology and health - news


New reference materials to support food labelling
24/03/2010
JRC-IRMM has released a series of new reference materials certified for food proximates and essential elements, supporting European legislation on labelling of foodstuffs.

Visit of Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn to JRC-IRMM
25/02/2010
Newly appointed European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, today visited the JRC Institute for Reference Materials and Measurement (IRMM) in Geel, Belgium.

Food safety: IRMM team wins JRC Excellence Award 2009
03/02/2010
A team from IRMM has won a JRC Excellence Award 2009 for policy support, in recognition of their work on the safe use of animal by-products in animal nutrition.

New cotton and maize GMO reference materials available
18/12/2009

JRC-IRMM method to detect chocolate fraud becomes international standard
04/12/2009
A method developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) to measure vegetable fats in milk chocolate has become the first such method to be adopted as an international standard by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

Latest news from the Turkey metrology project
27/11/2009
The Fifth VERMI Young Researchers Workshop on the Standardisation of Radionuclides took place in Ankara, Turkey 1-6 November. This workshop was the first in a series of many training events to be carried out during the three-year project.

Read more: JRC-IRMM Turkey metrology project webpage.


New EU-Turkey metrology project launched
27/10/2009
A new three-year project has been launched which will bring together European and Turkish experts in measurement science.

JRC / CEN workshop on standards for food and feed analysis, Brussels, 25/11/08
06/10/2008
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) are pleased to announce a one-day workshop on Horizontal Issues for Setting Standards for the Analysis of Food and Feed . The workshop is being organised in the frame of CEN Technical Committee 275 on food analysis.

A draft agenda and instructions for registration are available here.



Last Update 02/03/2006