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Committee:

CTN 34/SC 4 - Food analysis. Horizontal methods

Secretary:
FIAB - FEDERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE INDUSTRIAS DE LA ALIMENTACIÓN Y BEBIDAS
Structure:

GT 2 Sweeterners

GT 3 Pesticides

GT 5 Biotoxins: mycotoxins and phycotoxins

GT 6 Microbiology of the food chain

GT 9 Vitamins and caretenoids

GT 10 Trace elements (heavy metals)

GT 11 Genetically modified foodstuffs

GT 12 Food allergens

GT 13 Process contaminants

International Relations:

ISO/TC 34/SC 9  Microbiology

ISO/TC 34/SC 16  Horizontal methods for molecular biomarker analysis

CEN/TC 275  Food analysis - Horizontal methods

CEN/TC 463  Microbiology of the food chain

* Some activities of this TC correspond to other AEN/CTN.

Standards developed by the committee: CTN 34/SC 4: 359

UNE-EN 13806-1:2025

Status: VIGENTE2025-10-29

Foodstuffs - Determination of trace elements - Part 1: Determination of total mercury in foodstuffs by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) - cold vapour technique after pressure digestion

UNE-EN 13806-2:2025

Status: VIGENTE2025-10-29

Foodstuffs - Determination of trace elements - Part 2: Determination of total mercury in foodstuffs by atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS) - Cold vapour technique after pressure digestion

UNE-EN 13806-3:2025

Status: VIGENTE2025-10-29

Foodstuffs - Determination of trace elements - Part 3: Determination of total mercury in foodstuffs with atomic absorption directly from the foodstuff (elemental mercury analysis)

UNE-EN 12014-3:2006

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-24

Foodstuffs - Determination of nitrate and/or nitrite content - Part 3: Spectrometric determination of nitrate and nitrite content of meat products after enzymatic reduction of nitrate to nitrite

UNE-EN 12014-4:2006

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-24

Foodstuffs - Determination of nitrate and/or nitrite content - Part 4: Ion-exchange chromatographic (IC) method for the determination of nitrate and nitrite content of meat products

UNE-EN 17252:2021

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-23

Foodstuffs - Determination of phomopsin A in lupin seeds and lupin derived products by HPLC-MS/MS

UNE-EN 17251:2020

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-23

Foodstuffs - Determination of ochratoxin A in pork meat and derived products by IAC clean-up and HPLC-FLD

UNE-CEN/TS 17743:2022 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-23

Foodstuff - Determination of pesticide residues by ethyl acetate extraction using GC- and LC-MS/MS (SweEt) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in May of 2022.)

UNE-EN 15634-1:2020

Status: VIGENTE2025-08-07

Foodstuffs - Detection of food allergens by molecular biological methods - Part 1: General considerations

UNE-EN ISO 16140-7:2025

Status: VIGENTE2025-07-16

Microbiology of the food chain - Method validation - Part 7: Protocol for the validation of identification methods of microorganisms (ISO 16140-7:2024)

UNE-EN 15842:2020

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-06

Foodstuffs - Detection of food allergens - General considerations and validation of methods

UNE-EN 15634-2:2020

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-06

Foodstuffs - Detection of food allergens by molecular biological methods - Part 2: Celery (Apium graveolens) - Detection of a specific DNA sequence in cooked sausages by real-time PCR

UNE-EN 15633-1:2020

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-06

Foodstuffs - Detection of food allergens by immunological methods - Part 1: General considerations

UNE-EN 17266:2020

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-06

Foodstuffs - Determination elements and their chemical species - Determination of organomercury in seafood by elemental mercury analysis

UNE-EN 17280:2020

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-06

Foodstuffs - Determination of zearalenone and trichothecenes including deoxynivalenol and its acetylated derivatives (3-acetyl-deoxynivalenol and 15-acetyl-deoxynivalenol), nivalenol T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin in cereals and cereal products by LC-MS/MS

UNE-EN 17254:2020

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-06

Foodstuffs - Minimum performance requirements for determination of gluten by ELISA

UNE-EN ISO 22174:2025

Status: VIGENTE2025-04-09

Microbiology of the food chain - Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection and quantification of microorganisms - General requirements and definitions (ISO 22174:2024)

UNE-EN ISO 16140-2:2016/A1:2025

Status: VIGENTE2025-04-09

Microbiology of the food chain — Method validation — Part 2: Protocol for the validation of alternative (proprietary) methods against a reference method — Amendment 1: Revision of qualitative method comparison study data evaluation, relative level of detection calculations in the interlaboratory study, calculation and interpretation of the relative trueness study, and inclusion of a commercial sterility testing protocol for specific products (ISO 16140-2:2016/A1:2024)

UNE-EN ISO 16140-4:2021

Status: VIGENTE2025-04-09

Microbiology of the food chain - Method validation - Part 4: Protocol for method validation in a single laboratory (ISO 16140-4:2020)

UNE-EN ISO 16140-4:2021/A1:2025

Status: VIGENTE2025-04-09

Microbiology of the food chain - Method validation - Part 4: Protocol for method validation in a single laboratory - Amendment 1: Validation of a larger test portion size for qualitative methods (ISO 16140-4:2020/Amd 1:2024)