The SPICED Consortium consists of partners from Germany, Austria, Latvia, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ireland and Slovakia.
The specific quality requirements in food are broadly regulated by national or international law as well as by national and international standards set by several organizations.
To ensure that spices and herbs do not constitute a health risk to consumers, contaminations with bacteria, fungi, toxins and chemical substances must be avoided.
Many alerts from European Countries via the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) over the past years included spices and herbs, indicating the need of monitoring this commodity.
