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DIN Standards Committee Food and Agricultural Products

About NAL

The DIN Standards Committee Food and Agricultural Products is the body responsible for standardization in the food sector and the agricultural sector. The NAL develops standards on the following topics:

  • Sampling and testing of food, feed, cosmetics and tobacco products;
  • Food hygiene requirements for equipment and consumer goods and for the hygienic handling of food and food safety management systems;
  • disinfectant testing for food and animal husbandry applications;
  • Requirements, sampling and testing methods for fertilisers, soil improvers and growing media, biostimulants for plant application.

The standards developed for the sampling and analysis of food, feed, tobacco and tobacco products have been adopted – after approval by the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) and the working groups installed by the BVL for the implementation of § 64 of the Food and Feed Code (LFGB), of § 38 of the Tobacco Products Act (TobakerzG) and § 28b of the Gene Technology Act (GenTG) - into the Official Collection of Test Procedures according to § 64 of the Food and Feed Code (LFGB), according to § 38 of the Tobacco Products Act (TobakerzG) and according to § 28b of the Gene Technology Act (GenTG). The national standards drawn up for food hygiene and food safety are - after examination and approval by the supreme state authorities - recognised as a guideline for good practice in accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 and transmitted to the European Commission.

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Matthias Kritzler-Picht

Am DIN-Platz
Burggrafenstraße 6
10787 Berlin

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New projects
Document number Begin Title
DIN EN 16963 rev 2025-04-11 Inorganic fertilizers - Determination specific elements using ICP-AES More  Comment 
DIN EN 15960 rev 2025-04-02 Inorganic fertilizers - Extraction of total calcium, total magnesium, total sodium and total sulfur in the forms of sulfates More  Comment 
DIN EN 15961 rev 2025-04-02 Inorganic fertilizers - Extraction of water-soluble calcium, magnesium, sodium and sulfur in the form of sulfates More  Comment 

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Current Draft Standards
Document number Edition Title
DIN EN 18165 2025-06 Electronic cigarettes and e-liquids - Child safety requirements and test methods; German and English version prEN 18165:2025 More 
DIN EN ISO 11290-1/A1 2025-06 Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and of Listeria spp. - Part 1: Detection method - Amendment 1: Inclusion of storage of the samples before analysis and changes in the control strain for performance testing of culture media and reagents (ISO 11290-1:2017/DAM 1:2025); German and English version EN ISO 11290-1:2017/prA1:2025 More 
DIN EN ISO 12966-4 2025-06 Animal and vegetable fats and oils - Gas chromatography of fatty acid methyl esters - Part 4: Determination by capillary gas chromatography (ISO/DIS 12966-4:2025); German and English version prEN ISO 12966-4:2025 More 

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New publications
Document number Edition Procedure Title
DIN EN ISO 20122 2025-06 Standard Vegetable oils - Determination of mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH) and mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) with online-coupled high performance liquid chromatography-gas chromatography-flame ionization detection (HPLC-GC-FID) analysis - Method for low limit of quantification (ISO 20122:2024, Corrected version 2024-11); German version EN ISO 20122:2024 More  Order from DIN Media
DIN 10547 2025-05 Standard Requirements for electrical stunning systems for slaughter animals More  Order from DIN Media
DIN EN ISO 17715 2025-05 Standard Flour from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Amperometric method for starch damage measurement (ISO 17715:2025); German version EN ISO 17715:2025 More  Order from DIN Media

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Documents withdrawn without replacement
Document number Deadline for comments Title
DIN 10750-1 2025-05-31 Analysis of honey - Determination of diastase activity - Part 1: Schade method More  Comment 

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With Standardization Request M/564 and its amendments (M/564 Amd1 and M/564 Amd 2), the European Commission charged the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) to elaborate harmonized ...

With Standardization Request M/564 and its amendments (M/564 Amd1 and M/564 Amd 2), the European Commission charged the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) to elaborate harmonized ...

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