Novel foods - overview, legislation and methods of analysis

  • Georgescu Ioana Mădălina Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate, Bucharest
  • Negreanu Cătălin Nicolae University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest
  • Zvorișteanu Ovidiu Valentin Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate, Bucharest
  • Pîrvu Emilia Ciobotaru Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate, Bucharest
Keywords: novel foods, insects, LCMSMS, QuEChERS, extraction

Abstract

Novel foods have recently gained increasing popularity. Given their diversity and nutritional values, which are comparable to commonly consumed foods, novel foods had to be regulated both in terms of the procedural stages required for market introduction at the European Union level, implicitly in Romania, and the requirements they must meet for safe consumption. The analysis methods used for their characterization are generally classic, standardized ones or can be developed "in-house", as is the case for methods developed for the determination of mycotoxins. The method of analysis used for the determination of mycotoxins involves high performance liquid chromatography coupled with a mass spectrometer (LCMSMS) after the prior extraction of mycotoxins using QuEChERS extraction. The novelty of recent years is the inclusion on the list of novel foods approved at the European Union level of laboratory-grown meat and insects, such as flour beetle larvae available in frozen, paste, or dried form, and house crickets, available in frozen, powdered or desiccated form.

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Published
2025-02-07
How to Cite
Ioana Mădălina, G., Cătălin Nicolae, N., Ovidiu Valentin, Z. and Emilia Ciobotaru, P. (2025) “Novel foods - overview, legislation and methods of analysis”, Analele Universității ”Dunărea de Jos” din Galați. Fascicula II, Matematică, fizică, mecanică teoretică / Annals of the ”Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. Fascicle II, Mathematics, Physics, Theoretical Mechanics, 47(2), pp. 77-83. doi: https://doi.org/10.35219/ann-ugal-math-phys-mec.2024.2.06.
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