Residues of Mineral Oil and Synthetic Hydrocarbons in Food

During this online conference, representatives from the regulatory authorities, the industry as well as from the scientific fields are presenting the most pressing questions on how to deal with mineral oil hydrocarbons in food including food contact materials.

20.03. — 21.03.2025
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Overview

Residues like mineral oil hydrocarbons are strictly regulated within the European Union. The risk management and toxicological assessment of residues, essential to produce compliant products, poses challenges across the entire food industry.

This conference brings together representatives from regulatory and industry backgrounds, as well as political decision-makers to discuss the latest regulatory developments. It keeps track of scientific progress, advances in food analysis and recent developments in risk assessment.

In retrospect: Highlights of the last edition

  • European Community policy on mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) in food
  • EFSA assessment of mineral oil hydrocarbons in food
  • JRC's activities and challenges towards the MOSH/MOAH analyses harmonisation
  • International standardisation work on mineral oil hydrocarbons
  • Quantification of MOAH by number of aromatic rings
  • Wax and oil related topics from the perspective of the European Wax Federation
  • The MOSH/MOAH issue from the perspective of the food industry

Who should attend this conference?

Professionals working in the fields of:

  • Quality assurance & control
  • Product safety
  • Analysis
  • Raw material control
  • Regulatory affairs & support
  • Research & development
  • Toxicology

Sectors taking part:

  • Food and drink industry
  • Packaging industry
  • Food retailing
  • Food inspection offices
  • Laboratories
  • Research institutes
  • Authorities
  • Professional associations

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Programme

We are currently in the process of compiling our event programme in close cooperation with our team of experienced speakers.

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Speakers

Name

Company

Jan Cardon

European Carton Makers Association (ECMA), Belgium

Jan Cardon is a Commercial Engineer and he has been working in different positions for paper and board converting associations, both at the Belgian and European level since 1989. Currently he is Technical Advisor of ECMA and from the staff side in charge of the ECMA Food Safety Committee. Within this platform of committed senior experts, the FCM related sector positions are defined and guidance is provided for the membership.

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Thomas Gude

Independent Consultant, Switzerland

Thomas Gude is Managing Director of Thomas Gude GmbH, which specialises in consulting in the areas of food contact materials, food and non-food. After about 30 years with authorities, the pharmaceutical and chemical industries and a long time as the operational manager of a Swiss laboratory, he now deals with risk assessments, especially in the food contact and consumer goods sector. In addition, he teaches at various universities and technical colleges, in particular at ETH Zurich.

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Lydia Richter

Chemical and Veterinary Official Control Laboratory (CVUA) Stuttgart, Germany

Lydia Richter is a Food Chemist and Head of Laboratory at the Chemical and Veterinary Official Control Laboratory (CVUA) Stuttgart. Her main area of work is focused on method development for gas chromatography analysis of FCM and body contact materials and supervision of the research project for the establishment of mineral oil analysis at CVUA Stuttgart. She is a member of the ‘German BfR Committee on Consumer Products’

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Birgit Schindler

PROOF-ACS, Germany

Eileen Schulz

Institut Kirchhoff, Mérieux NutriSciences, Germany

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Thomas Simat

Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Thomas Simat has been a Professor and the Chair of Food Science and FCM at the Technische Universität Dresden with research on FCM since 2003. He is the Chairman of the ‘German BfR Committee on Consumer Products’’.

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Suzy Sumner

foodwatch, Belgium

Suzy Sumner is based in Brussels for foodwatch international. She is responsible for bringing the foodwatch campaigning voice to the core of the EU and making foodwatch better known among some of the key players in and around the EU institutions. She monitors what is happening at EU level and is also part of many of the campaign teams feeding in the EU dimension. Suzy is particularly interested in what happens behind the scenes in the EU bubble and bringing more transparency to decision making.

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Veerle Vanheusden

European Commission, Belgium

Veerle Vanheusden is a Policy Officer in DG SANTE of the European Commission. She joined the European Commission in 2013, where she worked for four years in the Unit “Pesticides and Biocides”. In 2017 she moved to the Unit dealing with food processing technologies and novel foods, where her main area of activity is the EU policy and legislation on contaminants. She has previously worked in the private pharmaceutical sector.

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Venue

Online Conference
This conference is going to be held online.
You can reach us directly at:
Phone : +49 231 75896-50
Email: info@akademie-fresenius.de
www.akademie-fresenius.de

Prices & Services

Participation Fee: € 995.00 plus VAT.

The registration fee includes the following benefits:

  • Participation in the Online Event
  • Event Documentation (available via download from our website)
  • Certificate of attendance

Representatives of an authority or a public university are therefore eligible for a reduced fee of € 595.00 plus VAT per person (please provide evidence). The reduced fee cannot be combined with other rebates.

Group Reductions
For joint bookings received from one company we grant a 15% discount from the third participant onwards.

Terms of Cancellation / Book without Risk
You can cancel your participation in our online events free of charge and without giving reasons in writing up to 1 week before the start of the event. In the case of later cancellations and non-login to the online event, no participation fees can be refunded.
In this case, however, you will receive access to the documentation after the event.
You can name a substitute participant free of charge at any time.

Event Documentation

Would you have liked to attend this event, but cannot spare the time?

For the price of 295,00 € plus VAT you can order a complete set of event documentation. A few days after the event you will receive the access data for the restricted download section of our Website. There you will find all presentations (subject to the approval of our speakers) as pdf-files.

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Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

Jennifer Zerth

Your Contact

Jennifer Zerth
Organisation and participant management

+49 231 75896-79
jzerth@akademie-fresenius.de

Jennifer Zerth

Your Contact

Jennifer Zerth
Organisation and participant management

+49 231 75896-79
jzerth@akademie-fresenius.de

Display / Supplement

Present your Company at the Event.

You can personally present your products and services directly to your specified target group. We are happy to provide you with further information on our range of available options – from displaying company information at the reception counter to presenting your company with an exhibition stand.

We would be pleased to assist you personally:

Monika Stratmann

Monika Stratmann
Phone: +49 231 75896-48
info@akademie-fresenius.de

Press Contact

We offer journalists and editors a platform where they can get in touch with the experts.

If you are the editor of a specialist publication and interested in a press pass or media partnership, please contact us well in advance. We are happy to advise you.


Please contact us:

Katharina Geraridis

Katharina Geraridis
Phone: +49 231 75896-67
presse@akademie-fresenius.de