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/Milk and dairy products

HomepageMilk and dairy products
Milk and dairy products working group

Composition of the AG

  • Investigation offices
  • Trade laboratories
  • Dairy teaching, research and testing institutes
  • Universities, federal research institute
  • Industry, dairy industry association

Focal topics

Analytical topics

  • Is the phosphatide content suitable as an assessment criterion for the adulteration of buttermilk
  • Alcohol content of kefir
  • Analysis of wheat fibres
  • Detection of hydrogen peroxide in dairy products
  • Enzymatic nitrate determination in cheese
  • Natamycin in cheese


Food law topics

  • Advertising with dextrorotatory lactic acid
  • Opinions on new provisions and legislative proposals that directly or indirectly affect milk and milk-based products, e.g. Regulation on maximum levels of mycotoxins in food, revision of the Guidelines for sweet desserts and related products, amendment of the Dietary Guidelines Regulation, amendment of the NKV

Evaluation and monitoring of new products and technologies

  • Probiotics and prebiotics (oligofructose, inulin)
  • Milk products with added medicinal herbs
  • Milk sausage
  • Milk with added vitamins and minerals
  • Whey for drinking - whey powder with sweetener and flavouring


Outlook

  • Food law assessment of novel foods - development of common positions
  • Analysis of novel foods

    Ingredient control
    Detection of claimed ingredients with functional properties
    Development of suitable parameters/methods for analysing products from new technologies
  • Further training events to communicate the state of the art in science and technology
Management of the working group

Chairman

Dr Detmar Lehmann
34314 Espenau
E-mail: detmar.lehmann@lhl.hessen.de

Deputy Chairman

Dr Tobias Prokein
88131 Lindau

Secretary

Carolin Eder
94032 Passau
carolin.eder@mxns.com

Term of office 2024 - 2026

Position papers
  • Position paper of the Food Chemistry Society on the claims "lactose-free" and "low lactose" (2018) (pdf) Appendix (pdf)
  • Vanilla labelling for dairy products (as of March 2011) (pdf)
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