• Campylobacter
• Escherichia coli
• Listeria monocytogenes
• Salmonella
• Yersinia enterocolitica

• Bacillus cereus
• Clostridium botulinum
• Chlostridium perfringens
• Staphylococcus aureus

• Mould

• Norovirus
• Hepatitis A virus

• Histamine
• amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP)
• diarrheic shellfish poisoning (DSP)
• paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)

• Aspartame
• forbidden colourings

• mycotoxins
• industrial contaminants
• agricultural contaminants
• environmental contaminants

Foodstuffs can be contaminated by heavy metals, metals and trace elements. Contamination can arise, among other things, from the migration of materials and objects that come into contact with foodstuffs.

Migration means the diffusion of substances from food contact materials (FCM) into food, which can be of risk to human health or vice versa, which is important to the quality of food. Permeation refers to the process where chemical substances diffuse, such as through a certain layer of a multilayer material or vice versa.

• Migration of aluminium
• Migration of cobalt
• Migration of epoxidised soybean oil (ESBO)
• Migration of formaldehyde
• Migration of lead
• Migration of melamin
• Migration of nickel
• Migration of primary aromatic amines

More information on food contact materials (FR).

• Pesticides

• Presence of an unauthorized substance
• Presence of an unauthorized novel food
• Presence of an overdosed nutrient

• VMPR - veterinary medicinal product residues

• Foreign bodies

• Possible risk of suffocation from additives

• Allergens

• Organoleptic defects (Taste and smell)
• Packaging defect (swollen lid)
• Production defect
• Production error: insufficiently sterilised product
• Leaks

• Acid candy

• Salmonella