Publications

The proposed EU regulations on plastic materials and articles intended to come in contact with food that have been submitted to our committee have just been published officially and this legislation will come into force on 1st May 2011. Please click here for details:
This repeals all the previous Directives on "food contact materials" - Directives 80/766/EEC, 81/432/EEC, and 2002/72/EC. The new regulation includes an EU list of authorized substances (referred to as the Union list) in Annex 1set out in Annex I of this regulation may be intentionally used in the manufacture of plastic layers in plastic materials and articles.

The EBC Monographs contain papers presented at the EBC Symposia, incl. discussion. The following titles are available and can be ordered from:

Fachverlag Hans Carl
Postfach 990153, D-90268 Nürnberg, Germany
tel. : +49 (911) 95285-0
fax : +49 (911) 95285-61
e-mail : fachbuch@hanscarl.com
internet : http://www.hanscarl.com

Please note that, as of 2009, EBC will no longer issue congress proceedings in a collated format, other than that displaying the presentations and abstract on the congress web-site. Should you wish to obtain a copy of the presentations of the past EBC congress in Hamburg, please contact the EBC secretariat.
All other proceedings are available and can be ordered from:

Fachverlag Hans Carl
Postfach 990153, D-90268 Nürnberg, Germany
tel. : +49 (911) 95285-0
fax : +49 (911) 95285-61
e-mail : fachbuch@hanscarl.com
internet : http://www.hanscarl.com

In 1990, the European Brewery Convention established the Technology & Engineering Forum with the responsibility of developing technical Manuals of Good Practice for malting and brewing. The project has been supported by the AIR Programme of the European Union.

The objectives of these Manuals are the characterisation of new (more efficient production) systems with reduced environmental impact; the assessment of existing processes and machinery in order to disseminate best performance, practice and standards; the evaluation of existing systems for maintaining the quality and safety of products and the identification of the underpinning science and technology.

The intention of the Manuals is also to work out weaknesses and shortcomings of current systems thereby identifying the needs and the directions for future research and development. This will lead to improved systems based on either current or new concepts. The Manuals do not contain recent research findings or concepts that have not had an opportunity to prove themselves in day-to-day operations.

The Manuals provide factual information for those working at the interface between brewing science and the brewing process. Newcomers will find a whole range of practical information. Experienced practitioners will find the manuals valuable as a source of information of factual and practical issues. The data and processes put together in these Manuals can be used to derive professional economic decisions from.

The mechanism applied to produce the Manuals is through Working Groups of experienced persons interacting in order to establish a statement that is more substantive than the knowledge and experience of any individual. This good practice statement is enhanced by exposure to ‘readers’ who are experienced and knowledgeable in the area and whose suggestions and comments are incorporated in the publication. Final editing of the Manuals is carried out by Quality Managers at Brewing Research International (BRI) on behalf of the EBC Technology & Engineering Forum.

The following Manuals are available and can be ordered from:

Fachverlag Hans Carl
Postfach 990153, D-90268 Nürnberg, Germany
tel. : +49 (911) 95285-0
fax : +49 (911) 95285-61
e-mail : fachbuch@hanscarl.com
internet : http://www.hanscarl.com

At a recent meeting of the EBC Executive, the concept of changing from a paper-based compendium of methods to an electronic format has been ratified. The change-over to a web platform should be taking place in the latter part of 2010. Currently, Analytica-EBC is only available in hard copy and as a complete entity. This means that methods are not sold individually.
To be ordered from:

Fachverlag Hans Carl
Postfach 990153, D-90268 Nürnberg, Germany
tel. : +49 (911) 95285-0
fax : +49 (911) 95285-61
e-mail : fachbuch@hanscarl.com
internet : http://www.hanscarl.com

The book containing the standardised analytical methods written in a style according to the international standard ISO 78/2; precision values for the methods have been determined according to the protocols given in ISO 5725. More than 175 methods cover the whole process flow from raw materials to analyses of finished products. 5th Edition, format: DIN A4, in ring-binder,approx. 680 pages, numerous illustrations and diagrams

To be ordered from:

European Brewery Convention,
c/o The Brewers of Europe,
Rue Caroly 23-25, B - 1050 BRUSSELS,
Belgium
tel.: +32 2 551 1828
fax: +32 2 660 9402
e-mail: info@europeanbreweryconvention.org

EBC Thesaurus, 2nd edition 1982 (2 Vol. Set) € 45,00

• A comprehensive and concise system to index and retrieve the specialist literature.
• Contains over 4000 translated descriptors in four languages (English, German, French and Dutch).

This edition covers not only malting and brewing technology but other related sciences and technologies such as biochemistry, microbiology, biotechnology, chemical analysis, economics, construction techniques and packaging methods.

The descriptors have been selected and translated by brewing experts from the UK, Germany, Belgium, France and The Netherlands. Selection was based on both technical importance and frequency of use in the literature, thus reflecting trends and developments in the area.

Contents:

Volume I: Thesaurus Manual and Indexes. Includes three separate indexes to facilitate location of descriptors

Subject category index: groups together all subject associated descriptors.

• Permuted index: prepared individually for each language; groups together all terms containing the same individual word.
• Hierarchical index: contains those descriptors which possess various hierarchical levels, thus characterising overall concepts.

Volume II: Thesaurus of Terms. Contains the separate English, German, French and Dutch thesauri of terms arranged alphabetically. Descriptors are translated into each of the other three languages used.

To be ordered from:

Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company
P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tel. : +31 (20) 4853642
fax : +31 (20) 4853598
e-mail : nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl

(Edition in four languages: English, French, German and Dutch and based on the Thesaurus compiled by the European Brewery Convention.
It includes approx. 4000 terms.
Basic table in English.)

Postage is not included in the above prices.