Healthy Eating Day is held every year on March 7th to help raise awareness of a balanced and healthy diet. Above all, safe food for consumers is essential for a healthy diet. With our analytical services, we help to guarantee food safety at a high level.

We are pleased to announce a brand new analytical method for hydrogen cyanide! The highly toxic compound with the characteristic bitter almond odor is mostly colorless and also known as hydrogen cyanide. It occurs naturally in foods such as almonds, apricot kernels, and even flaxseed. With the new method, we can determine hydrogen cyanide in samples even more accurately and efficiently - for this we use the headspace GC-MS analysis technique.

The Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SC PAFF) adopted maximum levels for inorganic arsenic in several products on October 19th, 2022. Affected are food for infants and young children, fruit juices and nectars, rice flour and rice drinks and salt. At the same time, existing maximum levels for milled, uncooked rice will be lowered further.

We are happy to announce that GBA GROUP will be exhibiting at this year's BIOFACH trade fair. Together with our two co-exhibitors HYGIENICUM and nuTIQ, we will be present in Nuremberg from February 14th - 17th 2023 under the motto "Let's talk about Food Safety Solutions".

On November 18th 2022 Axel Haack and Sharareh Tarimoradi were at the European Trade Meeting of the Waren-Verein of the Hamburg Stock Exchange. The association, which is rich in tradition, informs its members about current developments in national and European regulations as well as legislative procedures and also supports them in questions concerning trade policy, food law, customs issues, agricultural policy as well as environmental topics.

This year's event focused, among other things, on the topics of sustainability and transparency in supply chains. Producers and suppliers discussed ways to make supply chains sustainable and to provide transparent information to end consumers.