details
- Name
- Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety Institute for Fish and Fishery Products Cuxhaven (VUCG)
- Native name
- Staatliches Veterinäruntersuchungsamt für Fische- und Fischwaren
- Address
- Schleusenstr. 15
- Zipcode
- 27472
- City
- Cuxhaven
- Country
- Germany
- Centre Website
- https://state-office-for-consumer-protection-and-food-safety.niedersachsen.de/startseite/about_us/institutes_and_specialized_departments/institute-for-fish-and-fishery-products-cuxhaven-73747.html
organisation profile
The Institute for Fish and Fishery Products Cuxhaven (IFF CUX) in the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (LAVES) is a specially established test institute for fish and fishery products, focussing also on research. The institute located in Cuxhaven is made up of one central group and six specialist areas.
In the IFF CUX, the organoleptic, chemical-analytical, virological-molecular and parasitiological tests of fish and fishery products in Lower Saxony and Bremen are performed.
The IFF CUX is responsible for the official testing of clams in Lower Saxony mudflats, in accordance with current hygiene requirements. Additionally, research and development work have to be done, especially in the area of aquaculture.
The following significant areas are dealt with by the IFF CUX:
- chemical, organoleptical, parasitological, and virological evaluation, as well as general monitoring (in accordance with general food law) of fish and fishery products in Lower Saxony and Bremen, including fish and fishery products brought into the EU with the approval of border controls at Lower Saxony and Bremen
- monitoring of environmental radioactivity (gamma and beta rays) in fishery products statewide, and in general food (except raw milk) regionally (former administrative region Lüneberg) by the Radiology Monitoring Station
- monitoring mussel harvesting areas in mudflats, in accordance with approved hygiene laws
- testing of freshwater fish, sea mammals and mussels in Lower Saxony for diseases
- monitoring Lower Saxony aquaculture within the scope of the European residue control plan
- research and development, particularly in the area of aquaculture Lower Saxony
- cooperation of EU-approved fish production companies, distribution centres, fish cutters and aquaculture companies in Lower Saxony, as experts in hygiene monitoring in accordance with EU hygiene laws
- Coordination of working groups and statements from the Fish Competence Centre North
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 4016
- Collating centre
- German Oceanographic Datacentre (DOD)
- Latest update
- 12 September 2019 7:51:38 AM