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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
25. October 2023 Category: Novel Food

New novel food approvals for 2 HMOs

In November, the EU Commission approved two more Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) as novel foods. These include: 3-Fucosyllactose produced by a derived strain of Escherichia coli K-12 DH1 6′-Sialyllactose sodium salt produced by a derived strain of...
Information
20. May 2023 Category: Novel Food

New novel food approval 6′-Sialyllactose sodium salt

The EU Commission approves another Human Milk Oligosaccharide (HMO) as a novel food in June: 6′-Sialyllactose sodium salt, produced by a derived strains of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)
Information
15. May 2023 Category: Additives

Re-evaluation of E 473 and E 415 in food for infants below the age of 16 weeks finalised by EFSA

Re-evaluation of sucrose esters of fatty acids (E 473) and xanthan gum (E 415) as food additives in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age were published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on 21/04/2023 and 04/05/2023, respectively.In...
Information
08. May 2023 Category: Contaminants

RECAST OF REG 1881/2006

On 05 May 2023 European Commission published Regulation (EU) 2023/915 [Link zu „Contaminants_Regulation_2023-915“] on maximum levels for certain contaminants in food and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 in the Official Journal of the European...
Information
14. April 2023 Category: Novel Food

New Authorisations: traditional foods from third country

The European Commission authorised the following novel foods as traditional food from a third country in February and March 2023: dried nuts of Canarium ovatum Engl., commonly known as Pili nuts, and dried nuts of Canarium indicum L., called...
Information
07. February 2023 Category: Novel Food

New Authorisations: Human Milk Oligosaccharids

The European Commission authorised the following three milk oligosaccharides as novel food in January 2023: Lacto-N-tetraose produced by derivative strains of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3), 3-Fucosyllactose produced by a derivative strain of...

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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

Logo meyerscience

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
25. October 2023 Category: Novel Food

New novel food approvals for 2 HMOs

In November, the EU Commission approved two more Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) as novel foods. These include: 3-Fucosyllactose produced by a derived strain of Escherichia coli K-12 DH1 6′-Sialyllactose sodium salt produced by a derived strain of...
Information
20. May 2023 Category: Novel Food

New novel food approval 6′-Sialyllactose sodium salt

The EU Commission approves another Human Milk Oligosaccharide (HMO) as a novel food in June: 6′-Sialyllactose sodium salt, produced by a derived strains of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)
Information
15. May 2023 Category: Additives

Re-evaluation of E 473 and E 415 in food for infants below the age of 16 weeks finalised by EFSA

Re-evaluation of sucrose esters of fatty acids (E 473) and xanthan gum (E 415) as food additives in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age were published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on 21/04/2023 and 04/05/2023, respectively.In...
Information
08. May 2023 Category: Contaminants

RECAST OF REG 1881/2006

On 05 May 2023 European Commission published Regulation (EU) 2023/915 [Link zu „Contaminants_Regulation_2023-915“] on maximum levels for certain contaminants in food and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 in the Official Journal of the European...
Information
14. April 2023 Category: Novel Food

New Authorisations: traditional foods from third country

The European Commission authorised the following novel foods as traditional food from a third country in February and March 2023: dried nuts of Canarium ovatum Engl., commonly known as Pili nuts, and dried nuts of Canarium indicum L., called...
Information
07. February 2023 Category: Novel Food

New Authorisations: Human Milk Oligosaccharids

The European Commission authorised the following three milk oligosaccharides as novel food in January 2023: Lacto-N-tetraose produced by derivative strains of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3), 3-Fucosyllactose produced by a derivative strain of...

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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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