What is PFAS all about?

15-Jul-2024 - Per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) are persistent industrially produced compounds that can accumulate in the environment and the body. Recently, they have increasingly become the subject of public debate due to potential health risks. Nevertheless, the majority of the population is not ...

Global standards in food safety: BfR Summer Academy

Over 700 participants from 72 countries learn and network

02-Jul-2024 - New foods land on supermarket shelves every day. Some of the products have come a long way. The variety of foods is constantly growing due to imports and exports, which also increases the requirements for scientific assessments and the communication of health risks. But how is the legal and ...

Why the BfR is shooting at gelatine or how the food safety of game meat can be guaranteed

24-Apr-2024 - What do soap and gelatine have to do with game meat? Quite a lot, at least at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR): the substances help to make the consumption of game meat safe for consumers. As so-called test simulants, blocks of soap and gelatine are shot at with rifle ammunition in ...

Microplastics in food - many unanswered questions among scientists and the general public

More than half of the population is concerned about microplastics in food

24-Oct-2018 - Although overall 75 percent of the population regard food as safe, more and more Germans are showing concern about microplastics in food. As the latest BfR Consumer Monitor - a regular population survey conducted by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) - shows, the topic is ...

Campylobacter – the germ on chicken eggs

04-Jun-2018 - The most important bacterial diarrhoea pathogen can be transmitted via eggshells – but protection is possible Eggs are a popular food. In fact, Germans consumed almost 20 billion of them in 2016, which equates to a per capita consumption of 235 eggs. It is therefore easy to understand why the ...