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Phone: |
+49-30-8412-0 |
| Partner Number: |
4 |
Fax: |
+41 308412 3685 |
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Authority |
e-Mail: |
i.laube@bfr.bund.de |
| Name: |
BfR-Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin |
Website: |
http://www.bfr.bund.de/ |
| Umbrella Organisation: |
Bund, Germany (Bundesinstitut fuer Risikobewertung) |
| Postal Address: |
Thielallee 88-92, D-14195 Berlin |
Country: |
Germany |
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| Description: |
The new Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is the scientific body of the Federal Republic of Germany that prepares expert reports and opinions on questions of food safety and consumer health protection on the basis of internationally recognised scientific assessment criteria. With the help of risk analysis, BfR formulates action options for risk reduction. Against this backdrop, the Institute assumes an important task in improving consumer health protection and food safety. The assessments are to be presented in a transparent and comprehensible manner to the general public, scientists and other involved or interested circles. The assessment results will, in principle, be made publicly accessible whilst maintaining the confidentiality of protected data.
The tasks of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment include providing scientific advice to the federal ministries concerned and to the Federal Agency for Consumer Protection and Food Safety.
The Federal Institute is engaged in scientific cooperation with other international institutions and organisations and with institutions in other countries involved in consumer health protection and food safety. One focus of its work will be cooperation with the European Food Safety Authority.
The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment does its own research on subjects which are closely linked to its assessment tasks in consumer health protection and food safety.
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| Expertise: |
The BfR is actively involved in method validation for the purpose of food authenticity and traceability. The BfR is organising and performing national and international collaborative studies in order to establish robust and validated traceability tools for all kinds of food/feed products and commodities. The institute carries on the work of the predecessor of the BfR - BgVV - which was responsible for the national standardisation of traceability tools resulting in an extensive list of official methods for food analysis included into the German Food Act.<br>Apart from this role, the BfR initiates and conducts research within the field of food traceability in the European context as well as on national level.<br>In 1996 the first European project (DMIF GEN SMT4-CT96-2072) on GMO (genetically modified organism) traceability has been initiated and co-ordinated by the former BgVV. The project successfully demonstrated the capacity of molecular biological methods for the purpose of controlling the GMO labelling provision. Among other tasks, basic and broadly applied detection methods for GMO in food have been validated under the leadership of the BgVV on the European level.<br>For the first time, in the frame of an European project (Tender No. XXIV/98/A3/001), a quantitative Real Time GMO detection method was internationally validated.<br>For the detection of plant and animal species in food and feed the BfR co-ordinated the European research project MolSpec-ID (QLK1-CT-2001-02373) from 2001-2004 in order to establish European harmonised methods on this field of traceability. Within the MolSpec-ID project (http://www.molspec.org) a total of 31 PCR sets for the detection of animal and plant species have been developed and validated.
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Project Management: Leader of the Workpackage "Species Origin Methods" (WP3 SOM); member of the Scientific Committee.<br>Molecular Biology method: Analysing plant specific pollen by real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) for the characterisation of honey. For this study a PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) labelled product will be investigated: Miel de Corse (Corsican honey). Furthermore a whole genome amplification (WGA) method will be tackled in order to avoid single species specific PCR systems. |
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Coordinator WP 3 |
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RT-device |
DNA-Seqencer |
ThermoCyl. |
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ABI 7700+LC |
ABI 310 |
PE 2400 |
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ELISA plate reader |
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