The working group is made up of technically competent members from monitoring and industry, research and commercial laboratories and deals with analytical issues from the following fields of work:
DNA-based analytics
- Real-time PCR and other PCR-based methods
- Methods for DNA sequencing (Sanger Sequencing, Next Generation Sequencing)
Protein/peptide-based analysis
- LC-MS
- MALDI-ToF
- ELISA
Stefan Schmidt
R-Biopharm AG, Pfungstadt
E-mail: st.schmidt@r-biopharm.de
Anke Rullmann
Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office Karlsruhe
Email: anke.rullmann@cvuaka.bwl.de
Ute Schröder
Max Rubner Institute
Institute for Safety and Quality in Milk and Fish, Hamburg
E-Mail: ute.schroeder@mri.bund.de
Period of office 2026 - 2028
- Genetically modified/genome-edited organisms in food, feed and seeds
- Allergens in food
- Authenticity of food
o Species identification (plant and animal species)
o Foreign additives (e.g. soya protein in food) e.g. soya protein in meat,...)
- Novel foods (e.g. insects)
"Position papers and statements"
"Allergens"
"Animal species differentiation"
- Method Development Committee of the LAG (State Committee on Genetic Engineering)
Task(s):
Method development for the detection of genetically modified microorganisms or GMOs according to GenTG
Contact person:
Ms Anke Belter
State Office for Environmental Protection Saxony-Anhalt
Reilstraße 72
06114 Halle (Saale)
- AVID Working Group Molecular Biological Methods in Animal Disease Diagnostics
Task(s):
Optimisation and standardisation of molecular biological test procedures for AVID method collection
Organisation of comparative studies
Contact person:
Dr Wolfgang Gäde
State Veterinary and State Examination Office
Haferbreiter Weg 132-135, 39576 Stendal
- DIN Standards Committee for Food and Agricultural Products (NAL)
Task(s):
Standardisation
Contact person:
Dr Tom Resler
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.
Saatwinkler Damm 42/43, 13627 Berlin
- § 64 LFGB working group Development of methods for the identification of food produced by genetic engineering
Task(s):
Method development and validation
Contact:
PD Dr Joachim Mankertz
Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety BVL
Unit 503: "National Reference Laboratories for Residues of Pharmacologically Active Substances and GMOs"
P.O. Box 110260
10832 Berlin
- § 64 LFGB working group Development of molecular biological methods for plant and animal species differentiation
Task(s):
Method development and validation
Contact person:
Dr Claudia Brünen-Nieweler
Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office Münsterland - Emscher - Lippe (CVUA-MEL)
Josef König Str. 40, 48147 Münster
- § 64 LFGB Working Group Molecular Biological Methods - Microbiology
Task(s):
Method development and validation
Contact person:
Dr Dietrich Mäde
State Office for Consumer Protection Saxony-Anhalt, Department of Food Safety
Freiimfelder Str. 68, 06112 Halle (Saale)
- § 64 LFGB Working Group Food Allergens
Task(s):
Method development and validation
Contact person:
Dr Ulrich Busch
Bavarian State Office for Health
and Food Safety
Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim
- Working Group PCR Analysis of the VDLUFA Feed Section
Task(s):
Method development and validation
Contact person:
Dr Sabine Domey
Thüringer Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft (TLL)
Naumburger Str. 98, 07743 Jena
- European Network for GMO Laboratories (ENGL)
Task(s):
Validation, method development, harmonisation of procedures
Contact person (in Germany):
Dr Lutz Grohmann
Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
Genetic Engineering Division 405 - Traceability, Detection Procedures, Biosafety Clearing House
Mauerstrasse 39-42, 10117 Berlin
- Working Group Food Associated Viruses (ALV)
Task(s):
Expert group "Food Associated Viruses"
Contact person
Prof Dr Becker
Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences
Life Science Technologies
Campusallee 12, 32657 Lemgo
- Subcommittee "Polymerase chain reaction for the detection of microorganisms"
Task(s):
Standardisation of test methods
Contact person:
Dr Kornelia Berghof-Jäger
BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH
Hermannswerder Haus 17, 14473 Potsdam
- Working Group ERFA Molecular Biology (Switzerland)
Task(s) and sub-working groups:
GMO analysis / animal species differentiation / microorganisms / allergens
Contact person:
Dr Rene Köppel
Cantonal Laboratory Zurich
Fehrenstrasse 15
8032 Zurich (Switzerland)
- Microbiology and Molecular Biology Group (Austria)
Task:
Molecular biological methods (e.g. mycology)
Contact person:
Dr Andreas Adler
Working Group of Agricultural Research Institutes in Austria (ALVA)
Austrian Agency for Health
and Food Safety GmbH
Institute of Animal Nutrition and Animal Feed
Wieningerstraße 8, A 4021 Linz
1) General(all topics) or start pages
EU information platform on food allergens:
www.foodallergens.info/
US-FDA Information about Food Allergens:
http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/FoodAllergens/default.htm
2) Consumer information
German nutritional advice and information network (DEBInet):
www.ernaehrung.de/tipps/nahrungsmittelallergien/
3) Analytics
Activities from the MoniQA project:
https:/https://www.moniqa.org/
4) Allergen research
Officially recognised allergens:
www.allergen.org/
Allergome information platform (not peer-reviewed):
www.allergome.org/
FARRP allergen database (peer-reviewed):
www.allergenonline.com/
Informall (EU project) database (peer-reviewed):
http://www.ifr.ac.uk/protall/database.html
Allergen Data Collection (only maintained until 2002):
www.food-allergens.de/
CSL Allergen Database: http://allergen.csl.gov.uk/
5) More about allergies/toxicological assessment
Allergy Prevention Action Alliance:
www.allergiepraevention.de/
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