Expert services for food
When food is produced, processed and placed on the market, companies are constantly facing new challenges in terms of safety, hygiene and quality. WESSLING accompanies your processes with individual expert services - in connection with reliable sampling and precise analysis.
We support you, with specific services from our highly qualified experts, in implementing the complex food law requirements that varied national, European and international laws, regulations, guidelines, and recommendations impose on you. Depending on your requirements, the individual service packages for food hygiene and safety can include marketability assessments, conformity tests or labelling and declaration tests.
In addition, our specialists prepare expert opinions, official cross-checks according to §43 LFGB and support you, if necessary, with targeted crisis management. We advise and train on GFSI standards such as IFS, BRC, FSSC 22000, HACCP and hygiene issues.
Expert services for food: services in detail
Expert services for food: services in detail
Marketability expert reports for food
Marketability expert reports for food
Anyone who brings food into circulation is subject to a number of national, European and international regulations. Our state-examined food chemists are recognised experts and are highly familiar with the complex variety of laws, directives, regulations, guidelines and recommendations. We will provide you with competent, friendly and reliable advice on all matters including labelling and marketability.
Verifying the labelling/declaration on your packaging and labels is crucial so that you can safely bring your products into circulation. Regulation (EU) no. 1169/2011 (food information regulation, LIMV) is a fundamental factor. This specifies precisely what information must be made available to the consumer.
Missing or incorrect information may be regarded as consumer deception. Missing data concerning allergens, for instance, can even result in health risks and public recalls. In addition, consumers must not be misled by nutritional value- and health-related statements, so-called health claims. Information on advertising with health- and nutritional value-related data is regulated as part of regulation (EU) no. 1924/2006.
Our experts support you in meeting all marketability and labelling requirements.
Labelling check for international markets
Food exports have risen sharply in the last few years. In order for food be also marketed successfully abroad, the labelling/declaration must comply with the food legislation provisions of the respective country. In all EU member states, this is regulated by food information regulation (EC) 1169/2011. However, country-specific regulations also often exist as well. Our experts are available to you with their extensive know-how for many countries within and outside of the EU – from specialist consulting during label creation to translations and food law checks for the destination countries.
Expert services for food: services in detail
Official cross-check
Official cross-check according to Section 43 of the German Food and Feed Code (LFGB)
Benefit from our high number of specialists with approval as experts for analysing officially retained samples in the sense of Section 43 (1(2)) of the German Food and Feed Code (LFGB). This refers to chemical, chemical-physical, molecular biological and microbiological analyses of foods.
Our experts analyse and evaluate your cross-check or duplicate sample as quickly as possible, thus giving you confidence for your further procedure. Our objective is to ensure product safety and prevent possible damage to your brand by means of handling concepts.
Background: during official inspections of food producers or traders, food samples are taken and analysed in an official laboratory. The food inspector is obliged either to leave part of the sample behind on site or, if this is not possible, to take a second sample and hand it to the producer. In this way, foods or raw materials can be counter-checked in a private laboratory by the counter-check expert approved for this task.
Expert services for food: services in detail
Crisis management for the food industry
Crisis management for the food industry
We will support you if a crisis occurs within your company: if the results of your food samples ever reveal deviations in quality or safety, our competent experts are on hand to help you. They offer long-term experience in handling crisis situations, and provide you with neutral and independent advice so that you are able to act as quickly as possible.
We undertake appraisal in the event of damage: if, for instance, a fire, water leak or pest infestation causes production at your company to stop, our food experts are on hand to perform an in-depth damage appraisal on site. From this, we derive an individual action plan to enable you to produce safe foods of flawless quality and bring them into circulation again as quickly as possible.
Our specialists provide tailor-made, efficient solutions for your industry
The individual service packages are tailored to the needs of your company.
