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Consulting and expert reports for food

When food is produced, processed and placed on the market, companies are constantly facing new challenges in terms of safety, hygiene and quality. WESSLING accompanies your processes with individual expert services - in connection with reliable sampling and precise analysis.

Expert services food

Expert services for food: We support you, with specific services from our highly qualified experts, in implementing the complex food law requirements that varied national, European and international laws, regulations, guidelines, and recommendations impose on you. Depending on your requirements, the individual service packages for food hygiene and safety can include marketability assessments, conformity tests or labelling and declaration tests.

In addition, our specialists prepare expert opinions, official cross-checks according to §43 LFGB and support you, if necessary, with targeted crisis management. 

Expert services for food: services in detail

Expert services for food: services in detail

Food Labelling - Declaration and Marketability Assessment, Listing Reports

Food Labelling - Declaration and Marketability Assessment, Listing Reports

Anyone who places food and other products on the market is subject to many national, European and international regulations. Our state-certified food chemists are recognized experts and are well versed in the complicated variety of laws, directives, regulations, guidelines, and recommendations. Whether in questions of labelling or marketability - we advise you competently and reliably.

In addition to ensuring the marketability of the product, compliance with the labelling regulations is also essential. At WESSLING, we offer you everything from a single source so that you can achieve complete marketability for your product.

Food Information Regulation

A milestone for the harmonization of food labeling in Europe is the Food Information Regulation (EC) 1169/2011, which regulates food labeling in all EU member states. Despite this simplification, this regulation also poses new challenges for you.

We are happy to support you in implementing these requirements correctly. The questions and answers catalogue with interpretation notes of the EU Commission also offers you assistance.

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Expert services for food: services in detail

International Food Labelling Assessment

International Food Labelling Assessment

In 2022, food with a value of 70 billion euros was exported from Germany. If you too place your products on the international market, compliance with the correct labelling is a major challenge. Knowing every single legal regulation for all target countries requires a large network. We offer you the solution. Ask us to carry out your food label checks!

We do label checks for the following countries

  • EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden)
  • Great Britain (UK), Switzerland, Norway, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey
  • China (via WESSLING Shanghai), Japan, India
  • Australia, New Zealand
  • South and Central American countries (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico)
  • USA, Canada 
  • Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan - South Africa - Israel
  • Other countries (Gulf States, Yemen, Hong Kong) on request

If you need a marking test or translation for other countries, just give us a call, we can offer more after consultation.

Translations and label checks

Due to the international positioning of our company, WESSLING has a broad international network at its disposal and offers you a comprehensive range of food law services throughout Europe and worldwide. Experienced specialists translate the labeling texts for you into the desired language and check them for conformity with the food law of the respective country of destination. WESSLING thus takes over the organizational effort for you that arises when checking the labeling for several countries of destination. We provide you with easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement correction proposals for your labeling. On request, we can also create your food labeling based on the product specification. Furthermore, WESSLING will be happy to support you in answering your food law questions or in translating product specifications - topics that you are sure to deal with more and more frequently in the context of the globalization of the food market.

Of course, WESSLING also offers you a wide range of chemical and microbiological tests as well as marketability tests for your products.

International Food Labelling Assessment - your contact

Expert services for food: services in detail

Official cross-check

Official cross-check according to Section 43 of the German Food and Feed Code (LFGB)

Benefit from our high number of specialists with approval as experts for analysing officially retained samples in the sense of Section 43 (1(2)) of the German Food and Feed Code (LFGB). This refers to chemical, chemical-physical, molecular biological and microbiological analyses of foods.

Official cross-checks according to Section 43 LFGB for foods

Our experts analyse and evaluate your cross-check or duplicate sample as quickly as possible, thus giving you confidence for your further procedure. Our objective is to ensure product safety and prevent possible damage to your brand by means of handling concepts.

Background: during official inspections of food producers or traders, food samples are taken and analysed in an official laboratory. The food inspector is obliged either to leave part of the sample behind on site or, if this is not possible, to take a second sample and hand it to the producer. In this way, foods or raw materials can be counter-checked in a private laboratory by the counter-check expert approved for this task.

Expert services for food: services in detail

Crisis management for the food industry

Crisis management for the food industry

We will support you if a crisis occurs within your company: if the results of your food samples ever reveal deviations in quality or safety, our competent experts are on hand to help you. They offer long-term experience in handling crisis situations, and provide you with neutral and independent advice so that you are able to act as quickly as possible.

On-site food production advice by a WESSLING expert
We undertake appraisal in the event of damage: if, for instance, a fire, water leak or pest infestation causes production at your company to stop, our food experts are on hand to perform an in-depth damage appraisal on site. From this, we derive an individual action plan to enable you to produce safe foods of flawless quality and bring them into circulation again as quickly as possible.

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Food analysis

Chlorate residues in food

WESSLING analyses chlorate residues in plant and animal food products for food producing companies. By using water that has previously been treated with chlorinated substances in the various stages of food production, chlorate can enter either fruit or vegetables.

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Competitive advantages for your company

Seals and certifications

Let us advise you if you are planning the certification of your company according to a recognised quality standard or if you want your product to be awarded the WESSLING quality seal, for example.

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Process-accompanying services from our experts

Materials with food contact

Ensure the quality of your products - with individual expert services from WESSLING.

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Analysis and evaluation of pesticide residues

Herbicides

At WESSLING our competent team of experts is at your disposal for this highly sensitive analysis - using state-of-the-art measuring instruments and methods we provide you with reliable results.

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Pesticide residues – Focus on recent developments of the PAFF Committee

Do these changes affect the scope of testing of your products? Our food experts will be happy to assist you and clarify your current requirements together with you.

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New sustainability standard from the IFS – The ESG Check as a tool on the way to sustainability management

What options are there for developing sustainability management systems? Our team will give you an insight into the advantages and practical aspects of the IFS ESG Check.

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