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AW/34/46 - Food Authenticity

Committee standards activity

In Progress (15)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

Draft Decision C36/2022 - Adoption of a PWI Food authenticity — Non targeted screening of spices and herbs by 1H-NMR

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Agriculture and Food | Food technology | Spices and condiments. Food additives | Spices and condiments

Proposal begins : 2022-08-30
Proposal
Draft Decision C35/2022 - Adoption of a preleminary work item "Food Authenticity — Determination of 16-O-methylcafestol content of green and roasted coffee — HPLC-method"

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Agriculture and Food | Food technology | Food industry. Processes

Proposal begins : 2022-08-24
Proposal
Draft Decision C32/2022 - WG2 - Adoption of a New Work Item (Quantitation of equine DNA) Food authenticity — Quantitation of equine DNA relative to mammalian DNA in raw beef meat samples

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Agriculture and Food | Food technology | Meat and meat products. Other animal produce

Proposal begins : 2022-08-11
Proposal
Draft Decision C31/2022 - Adoption of a PWI - Non-targeted testing methods in food and feed authenticity - General considerations and definitions

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Agriculture and Food | Food industry. Processes | Fish and fishery products | Spices and condiments

Proposal begins : 2022-06-13
Proposal
Draft Decision C07/2023 - Adoption of a PWI Food authenticity — Sample preparation for isotope ratio analysis of fruit and vegetable juices and related products

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Agriculture and Food | Food technology | Food products. Test methods and analysis | Fruits. Vegetables. | Beverages

Proposal begins : 2023-04-11
Proposal
Draft Decision C06/2023 - Adoption of a PWI Food authenticity — Determination of 18O/16O isotope ratios in liquid aqueous food matrices by Equilibration - Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (Eq-IRMS)

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Agriculture and Food | Food technology | Food products. Test methods and analysis

Proposal begins : 2023-04-11
Proposal
Draft Decision C05/2024 Adoption of a NWIP (WG7, meat)

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2024-04-19
Proposal
Draft Decision C04/2024 Adoption of a NWIP (WG8, HADH)

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2024-03-05
Proposal
Draft Decision C03/2025 - Adoption New Work Item Proposal - (WG 2, crustacean)

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-01-14
Proposal
Draft Decision C02/2025 - Adoption of Work Item (WG 1, Honey reference sample collection)

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2024-12-02
Proposal
Published (10)
Reference Standards description
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The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

BS EN ISO 20813:2022 Foodstuffs. Principles of selection and criteria of validation for varietal identification methods using specific nucleic acid

Categories: Food products. Test methods and analysis

Published standard begins : 2023-03-21
Published standard
BS EN 18057:2025 Food authenticity. Quantitation of roe deer DNA relative to mammalian DNA in meat and meat products by real-time PCR

Categories: Animal produce. General | Meat and meat products

Published standard begins : 2025-06-25
Published standard
BS EN 18054:2025 Food authenticity. Determination of C and/or N isotope ratios in food by Elemental Analyser. Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (EA-IRMS)

Categories: Food products. Test methods and analysis

Published standard begins : 2025-06-18
Published standard
BS EN 18033:2024 Food authenticity. Quantitation of equine DNA relative to mammalian DNA in raw beef (meat)

Categories: Microbiology. Food | Meat and meat products

Published standard begins : 2025-01-13
Published standard
BS EN 18003:2024 Food authenticity. Determination of 16-O-Methylcafestol content of green and roasted coffee. HPLC-method

Categories: Coffee and coffee substitutes

Published standard begins : 2024-11-08
Published standard
BS EN 17992:2024 Food authenticity. Determination of the sum of 16-O-Methylcafestol, 16-O-Methylkahweol and their derivatives in roasted coffee by ¹H-qNMR

Categories: Coffee and coffee substitutes

Published standard begins : 2024-11-08
Published standard
BS EN 17972:2024 Food authenticity. Food authenticity and fraud. Concepts, terms and definitions

Categories: Food technology | Food industry. Processes

Published standard begins : 2024-11-08
Published standard
BS EN 17958:2024 Food authenticity. Determination of the δ13C value of mono- (fructose and glucose), di-, and trisaccharides in honey by liquid chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (LC-IRMS)

Categories: Sugar. Sugar products | Starch Derived products

Published standard begins : 2024-11-29
Published standard
BS EN 17882:2024 Food authenticity. DNA barcoding of meat derived from mammals and birds using defined mitochondrial cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase I gene segments

Categories: Biology. Botany. Zoology | Food industry. Processes | Meat and meat products

Published standard begins : 2024-07-23
Published standard
BS EN 17881:2024 Food authenticity. DNA barcoding of bivalves and products derived from bivalves using a defined mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene segment

Categories: Biology. Botany. Zoology | Food industry. Processes | Fish and fishery products

Published standard begins : 2024-07-23
Published standard
Withdrawn (3)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD CEN/TS 17303:2019 Foodstuffs. DNA barcoding of fish and fish products using defined mitochondrial cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase I gene segments

Categories: Fish and fishery products

Withdrawn begins : 2024-10-03
Withdrawn
BS EN 16466-1:2024 Food authenticity Isotopic analysis of acetic acid and water in vinegar. <sup>2</sup>H-NMR analysis of acetic acid

Categories: Spices and condiments

Withdrawn begins : 2025-07-31
Withdrawn
BS EN 16466-1:2013 Vinegar. Isotopic analysis of acetic acid and water. <sup>2</sup>H-NMR analysis of acetic acid

Categories: Spices and condiments

Withdrawn begins : 2024-11-20
Withdrawn