Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt Rhein-Ruhr-Wupper (CVUA-RRW)

About Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt Rhein-Ruhr-Wupper (CVUA-RRW)

The Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt Rhein-Ruhr-Wupper (CVUA-RRW), as a public law institution, is an official testing laboratory in the field of health consumer protection. Products, Services, Services Animal Health / Veterinary Diagnostics: Veterinary diagnostics in the field of animal health serve to detect, prevent, and monitor animal diseases such as classical swine fever, bovine virus diarrhea, and bluetongue disease, infections transmissible from animals to humans – so-called zoonoses – such as rabies and other diseases of farm animals and zoo and pet animals. Food Monitoring: As a laboratory for official food monitoring, the CVUA-RRW uses a variety of different tests to check whether the collected food samples pose health risks (physical, microbiological, or chemical hazards such as glass shards in food, salmonella in desserts, mold toxins) and whether consumers can be deceived due to the form of offer or presentation of the food or due to deviations from the expected composition (e.g., ham imitations, "cheese" made from vegetable fat, genetic engineering in muesli, vanilla ice cream without vanilla, incorrect or missing labeling).