British Standards Institution

Source:: CEN
Committee:: EH/3/-/5 - (Disbanded - 22.04.2024)Algae and Algae Products
Categories:: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Agriculture and Food | Agriculture | Animal feeding stuffs | Food technology | Food products. General

Scope

This document describes product specifications, product characteristics and other relevant information for algae and algae products for food, nutraceutical and animal feed applications. This document is a general overview of available limits, procedures and analytical methods applicable to algae and algae products used for food and feed applications.

This document does not apply to pharmaceutical, cosmetics, fertilizer/biostimulants, chemical and biofuel applications.

Purpose

The recently published CEN/TR 17559:2021 contains technical errors regarding EU legislation on maximum allowed levels of elements and other chemical contaminants in food and feed applications. These errors, in combination with some editorial errors, need to corrected in order to correctly inform the reader.

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Standard timeline

1. Proposal

Proposal start date:

04/05/2021

Proposal end date:

13/06/2021

2. Draft

3. Public Comments

4. Comment Resolution

5. Approval

6. Publication

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Standards Development

CEN/TC 454, Revision of TR CEN/TR 17559:2021 Algae and algae products - Food and feed applications: General overview of limits, procedures and analytical methods

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