How can we be sure of the quality and authenticity of our spices and prevent fraud on expensive spices such as saffron or powders that can be more easily falsified?
The Joint Research Centre developed reference materials to ensure that coronavirus tests do not produce a false negative result for someone who is infected with COVID-19.
The European Cancer Information System collects cancer statistics from EU countries to improve prevention and care programmes.
Pesticides are widely used in European agriculture but some can negatively affect human and ecosystem health. Certified Reference Materials are used to guarantee food safety.
EU scientists are working to analyse and identify synthetic drugs, in a fight against a rapidly-growing market.
The JRC’s EU Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL ECVAM) has an extensive experimental facility used for the development, validation and standardisation of in vitro methods.
About 30 million EU citizens are affected by more than 6000 different rare diseases and the information is spread between hundreds of registries at national and regional levels.
The JRC Nanobiotechnology Laboratory is open for access by external researchers, both from the public and private sectors.
Food fraud is the violation of EU food law with the intention to deceive consumers for financial gain.
The Joint Research Centre's Food Contact Materials laboratory in Ispra, Italy tests a wide range of materials that come in contact with our food for safe chemical leaching.
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