Technical topic The challenge of MOSH & MOAH in Food Industries Introduction Increasing focus on food safety has driven manufacturers to review every aspect of their food production process including risk assessments on the manufacturing itself and also on external contamination along the supply chai...
A Review of MOSH and MOAH Analysis in FoodSdrigotti, NicolaBauwens, GregoryPurcaro, GiorgiaLC-GC Europe
MOSH and MOAH are generic terms used to describe mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH). MOHs originate from various sources and can be found in a wide range of food products.They consist of hydrocarbons comprising thousands of different chemical compounds. Origin Crude oil conversion process Coal, natural...
The EN 16995:2017 describes the methodology and the legal limits for MOSH/MOAH in food. The actual limit is 2 mg/kg. In one butter sample, 19.8 mg/kg was found. Those are limits for adults; the limits for infants are considerably lower. “In anarticlepublished on May 28, ...
confirmed. MOSH and MOAH can migrate from the packaging material into consumer products. If you manufacture and distribute food, cosmetics or other product groups, you should not rely solely on your suppliers' declarations of compliance. Our MOSH/MOAH analyses support you in confirming supplier ...
and a limit of detection <0.1 g/100 g. The applicability of the method was proven by analysing 27 authentic samples with MOSH and MOAH contents in the range of 90-109 g/100 g and 0.02-1.10 g/100 g, respectively. It is important to distinguish this new NMR-approach from the hyphenated...
These substances are food contaminants. They are potentially harmful to human health. MOSH/MOAH regulations of the EU Commission In January 2017, a new EU recommendation required member states to monitor MOH in food and food contact materials. As a result, the guidelines developed by the Joint ...
failures to “deliver robust and reliable test results” for the analysis of MOSH/MOAH in some food matrices, however, a careful review revealed that this publication falls short in considering several aspects of assessing the reliability and comparability of analytical data produced by different ...
(MOH) from packaging into food as a contribution to minimizing contamination" (AiF 19016 N) under the sponsorship of The Research Association of the Food Industry (FEI), which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Economic affairs and Energy on the basis of a resolution of the German ...
Food Watch Internationalcontinuously monitors the MOSH/MOAH situation. There are many products that do not meet the criteria in the EU, which specifies a detection limit of 0.5 mg/kg. Recently,German magazineÖkotestanalyzed 20 olive oils, and 19 of them were contaminated with MOSH and/or...