Reiner Wittkowski

TL;DR: The health risks resulting from total consumer exposure towards aluminium and various aluminium compounds, including contributions from foodstuffs, food additives, food contact materials, and cosmetic products, are assessed.

TL;DR: The WINE-DB project as mentioned in this paper is a multivariate statistical approach for the analysis of wines from third countries, which was initiated by the European Commission within the fifth framework "Competitive and Sustainable Growth" to improve the measures of authenticity control.

TL;DR: This paper draws together the results of an evaluation of alternative risk assessment methods to be used for the risk assessment of substances to which currently only zero tolerances apply to demonstrate that, depending on the available toxicological data, a scientifically sound risk assessment may still be possible.

TL;DR: This document summarizes key aspects of this debate in the light of the European “regulatory status quo”, while elucidating new perspectives for regulatory toxicity testing.

TL;DR: In a survey of 39 rye product samples, ergocristine and ergotamine were found to be the major alkaloids in commercially available rye products with contents of 127 microg/kg (ergocristines), and 134 microg / kg (ergotamine) in rye flour, and 152.5 and 117.8 microg./kg in coarse meal, respectively.