Call for input data for the Exposure Assessment of Food Enzymes - 10th Call

10th Call: Input data for the Exposure Assessment of Food Enzymes Food processes 

Food processes

• Fruit and vegetables processing for products other than juices 
• Fruit-derived alcoholic beverages processing

This call addresses two food processes in a single excel file. Sheet 2 considers fruit and vegetable processing (excluding juices). Sheet 3 considers fruit-derived alcoholic beverages processing.

Acrylamide reduction is excluded from this call and will be considered in a future call. Some potato products (including potato starch and potato flakes) and some specific dried fruits were included, this is to consider the possibility that enzymes different from asparaginase could be used to obtain potato flakes.

Instruction for completing the attached MS Excel ® file

Sheet 1 contains a legend for the information given in Sheet 2 and 3.

EFSA is seeking your feedback on the information listed in the Excel file concerning the FoodEx categories (Sheets 2 and 3, column B), and the associated technical factors for fruit and vegetable processing (Sheet 2, column D–F) and for Fruit-derived alcoholic beverages (Sheet 3, column D and F). 

1. For FoodEx categories (column B), should any food group be excluded? Or are there any food groups missing from the list?

In column H (sheet 2 and 3), please indicate ‘Remove’ for food groups to be excluded, and list any additionally proposed food groups with the corresponding FoodEx category at the end of this column.

The FoodEx categories are available in the FoodEx list (Sheet 4).

2. In columns D–E (sheet 2) or D and F (sheet 3), the average technical conversion factors (f1) and the average recipe fractions (f2) mainly derived from the EFSA RPC Model[1] and open information sources are listed. Moreover, in column F of sheet 2, the percentage of FoodEx category containing the ingredient (f3) is listed.

If you do not agree with any of the listed technical factors, keeping in mind that there can be some variation between foods in each category, please propose an alternative average factor for the respective FoodEx category in column I-K (sheet 2) or in column I-J (sheet 3).

For transparency purposes, please provide a short text using columns L-O (sheet 2) or columns K-M (sheet 3) to justify any feedback given. Any references should be provided in the last column.

Submission of data

Data should be submitted directly to EFSA using the dedicated e-mail address for this service: fip [at] efsa.europa.eu (fip[at]efsa[dot]europa[dot]eu). This mailbox is also the contact point for any technical support/advice you need for the reporting of this data.