Clean Smoke
Purified smoke for a conscious, healthy and sustainable diet. Product and environmentally friendly smoking without ashes, tar and PAHs.
CleanSmoke Newsletter April 2024
Due to current events we publish here the CleanSmoke Newsletter April 2024 – the DG Santé will decide in April 2024 on the non-renewal of primary smoking products. A non-renewal means the end for the product- and environmentally friendly smoking process.
Statement BÖLW on the CleanSmoke smoking process
This year’s participation of the CleanSmoke Coalition at Biofach was characterised by the regular renewal of primary smoke products by EFSA/DG Sante. Organic and conventional processors are clearly against a non-renewal of the product and environmentally friendly smoking process.
Details in the attached statement of the German Federation of the Organic Food Industry.
Renewal of primary smoke products
Purified primary smoke products are used in the CleanSmoke smoking process. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has recently recommended to the EU Commission that their authorisation should not be extended, due to a scientifically inadequate single substance analysis – this would mean the end of the product and environmentally friendly smoking process.
Root vegetables – smoked with CleanSmoke
Consumers are increasingly turning to plant-based meat substitutes. The start-up Verrano uses a special maturing process for this certified organic root vegetables and uses CleanSmoke for the smoking process.
Eco-Marketing Days on 7 Nov. 2023 with CleanSmoke
The programme of this year’s Eco-Marketing Days at Schloss Kirchberg/Germany will include a keynote speech by
Uwe Vogel, President of the CleanSmoke Coalition, on product and environmentally friendly smoking.
Migros and BioSuisse for CleanSmoke
With Migros, one of the most important meat processors in Switzerland – with recognition from Bio Suisse – has opted for the product- and environmentally-friendly smoking process.
CleanSmoke for Swedish organic products
In Sweden, 80% of all conventional meat products are smoked product- and environmentally friendly with CleanSmoke. Finally KRAV certified organic products may use CleanSmoke.
BIOFACH 2023
For the second time, the world’s leading organic trade fair BIOFACH in Nuremberg will feature “Green smoke for healthier and more environmentally friendly products”. From February 14th to 17th, the CleanSmoke Coalition will inform interested manufacturers and processors from the entire food industry in hall 5 booth 5-441 about the smoking process with pre-purified smoke – which is now equally permitted for organic and conventional products.
Smoking process with pre-purified smoke is “organic-compliant“
Already since the end of 2021, the CleanSmoke smoking process is compatible with the conventional smoking process approved for organic products – but offers immense advantages for people, nature and environment
CleanSmoke Organic Campaign launches in Spain
In November 2022 in Spain in cooperation with ECOVALIA the CleanSmoke Organic Campaign under the motto “Save water and energy and reduce the CO2 footprint”.
CleanSmoke in Italy
After BioFach, the CleanSmoke Organic Campaign was represented at the Italian organic trade fair SANA in Bologna. The producers’ association AssoBio, the certifier Suolo e Salute and the Organic Department of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture were the most important discussion partners.
CleanSmoke Coalition at the BioFach trade fair in July 2022 – the world’s largest trade fair for organic food and agriculture
Organic with CleanSmoke as a transformation agent After the EU Agricultural Commission approved the CleanSmoke smoking process for organic products at the end of 2021,
Smoking with pre-cleaned primary smoke condensate is now explicitly stated in the current amendments to Naturland’s processing standards
Naturland was the first major international farming organisation to include the CleanSmoke smoking process in its processing guidelines, thus permitting the product- and environmental-friendly smoking
EU approves alternative smoking process
Now that organic processors are finally allowed
to smoke in a product- and environmentally
friendly way throughout Europe, the platform
organic-markt reports in detail about this
smoking process. CleanSmoke has arrived in
the European organic sector.
Press release end of December 2021
Together with the attached press statement, as the leader of the CleanSmoke Organic Educational Campaign, I would like to thank the European share- and stakeholders in the organic sector for their broad support. In the new year we will work together to inform producers/processors and consumers.
Jürgen Michalzik
Smoking process with pre-purified smoke for organic products
After long discussions, supported by EGTOP,
the EU Agriculture Commission has confirmed that
a smoking process with pre-purified smoke
due to the comparability with conventional ones
must also be permitted for organic products.
Good Manufacturing Practice
Although the product and environmentally friendly smoking process with pre-purified smoke in a closed circle complies with the “Good Manufacturing Practice” required by the EU organic regulation, it is not approved for organic products at state level.
Smoke Technologies Fact Sheets
We have been smoking meat and fish for around 9000 years to make them more durable and tasty. A comparative overview of technical parameters and environmental pollution of different smoking processes used today
European Green Deal – climate neutral by 2050
The European Green Deal sets out how to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, boosting the economy, improving people’s health and quality of life, caring for nature, and leaving no one behind.
Expert assessment of CleanSmoke
For Professor Dr. Stephan Borrmann, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and aerosol researcher, CleanSmoke is definitely smoke.
BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUE (BAT)
Summary: CleanSmoke recommended by the European Joint Research Center as best available technique (BAT) for avoiding and reducing industrial emissions
CleanSmoke information in other languages
Here you will find the CleanSmoke Flyer in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish and German. You can use the navigation to switch between German and English for all texts.
The CleanSmoke Explanatory Video
“Only the best of smoke” explained in less than 3 minutes.
CleanSmoke Offers More Options for Product Development
Interview with Hans-Joachim Kunkel (Fish Factory „Die Räucherei“ and Bernd Hackethal (Butchery Hackethal)
CleanSmoke open letter to BioFach 2020
Report on the current status of the implementation of a product and environmentally friendly smoking process in the EU Organic Regulation
The ecological advantages
At a glance: CleanSmoke smoking compared to combustion and friction smoke
Smoking in a closed circuit
Video documentation and Layman Report on the CleanSmoke smoking process from Red Arrow Handels GmbH
Smoking Methods for Meat Products – Impact on Quality and Safety
Article by Prof. Dr. Achim Stiebing, former head on meat technology at Technical University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe and DLG Vice President
CleanSmoke make smoking future-proof
For people and nature. For safe organic food.
Lecture at the world’s leading trade fair BioFach 2019 by Uwe Vogel, President of the CleanSmoke Coalition