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.

GBA Pharma GmbH Ulm, continues to expand the microbiology department with the acquisition of a new instrument, the "M9 Laboratory TOC Analyzer" from SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions.

Indoor moisture indicator and classified in biological risk group 2. The mold species was by no means obtained only from natural habitats such as soil samples or plant litter, but is also mentioned in a number of medical journals. In the most recent version of the Altas of Clinical Fungi, Sarocladium kiliense is described as an accompanying organism in a whole range of clinical pictures. Skin diseases and lung infections appear most frequently. This is the reason for the classification of Sarocladium kiliense in biological risk group 2.

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.