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BfR MEAL study celebrating its 2nd birthday

With the formal opening of the study kitchen two years ago, the starting gun was fired for the experimental phase of the BfR MEAL study. Ever since, the BfR MEAL team has already covered more than 80,000 kilometres in four different regions of Germany to purchase food from various shopping outlets, taking into account seasonal and regional peculiarities.

More than 300 kilograms of food have been prepared every month so that they can be examined subsequently in the laboratory for desired and undesired substances. In the current initial field phase of the study, these are substances from the base module, which include heavy metals, methylmercury and dioxins, as well as nutrients, mycotoxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), perfluorinated tensides (PFAS) and mineral oil saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons (MOSH/MOAH).

The evaluation of the first field phase is set to begin in 2019 with the results for methylmercury and organic tin compounds. The second field phase will start parallel to this and will comprise the substance groups process contaminants, plant protection product residues, additives, pharmacologically effective substances and substances which migrate from food contact materials.

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