This note provides information about origin labelling standards and laws in selected countries. Countries are organized in groups, depending on the geographical region. Group 1 includes North America (USA, Canada, Mexico), Group 2 Asia (Japan, South Korea) and Group 3 South America (Argentina,...

This report describes the production of a set of Certified Reference Materials (CRMs), ERM-BF440a, b, c, d and e, which are certified for their DAS-81910- 7 cotton (unique identifier DAS-8191Ø-7) event mass fractions. These materials were produced following ISO Guide 34:2009 and are certified...

This report describes the production of ERM®-DA480/IFCC, ERM®-DA481/IFCC and ERM®-DA482/IFCC, which are human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) materials certified for the mass concentration of amyloid β1-42 peptide (Aβ1-42). These materials were produced by the European Commission's Joint Research...

This report describes the preparation and certification of the potato powder Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) ERM-BF421a and ERM-BF421b, consisting of conventional and genetically modified EH92-527-1 potato powder, respectively. The CRMs were processed in 2005/2006 and were certified in 2006...

This report describes the preparation and certification of the sugar beet powder Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) ERMBF419a and ERM-BF419b, consisting of conventional sugar beet powder and genetically modified H7-1 sugar beet powder, respectively. The CRMs were processed and certified in...

This report describes in detail the production of a reference material certified for its acrylamide content (ERM-BD273), from the processing to the value assignment, going through all the required steps that assure the high quality of the final product, such as the homogeneity and stability...

This certification report describes the processing and characterisation of ERM-FA016ar, a batch of Charpy V certified reference test pieces. Sets of five of these test pieces are used for the verification of impact pendulums according to EN 10045-2 (Charpy impact test on metallic materials, Part...

This report describes the work performed to prepare two reference materials containing sugars, starch and starch degradation products, and certify them by two methods of analysis. The first method consists in the determination of free sugars (sucrose, fructose and lactose) in food by liquid...

EURM-021 is a certified reference material (CRM), containing powder from fish fillet. It is certified for its taxon, the species Pollachius pollachius (pollack), in accordance with ISO 17034:2016 [1]. The material was produced at the European Commission's (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC) from...

This report describes the additional certification of the mass fractions of deoxynivalenol (DON) and nivalenol (NIV) in the already existing material ERM-BC717 (maize powder), which was previously certified for the mass fraction of zearalenone (ZON). The between-unit homogeneity was quantified...