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01 Jun 2018

50 shades of green: Europe’s farm reforms explained

Deep budget cuts and an untested plan to let national governments take the reins are causing jitters across the bloc. Read the full article on Politico here....

Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission

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30 May 2018

Insufficient consideration for food issue in CAP

The Commission is due to unveil its next Common Agriculture Policy on June 1st and Olivier De Schutter, former UN Special Rapporteur on the right for food and co-chair of the inter...

Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission, Sustainable food

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29 May 2018

European Congress on Obesity 2018: What’s new in obesity research?

The 25th European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2018) took place in Vienna, Austria from 23rd to 26th May 2018. This year’s topics included science, treatment and public health, w...

Tags: EU, Obesity

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24 May 2018

Revealed: majority of politicians on key EU farming panel have industry links

Research uncovers that 25 out of 46 MEPs of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee have strong links to the farming sector they are charged with regulating. Read the ful...

Tags: Agriculture, CAP, EU, European Parliament, Transparency

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23 May 2018

Young people who ‘watch more junk food ads’ consume ‘thousands more calories’

According to a new study carried out by Cancer Research UK, teenagers who watch an extra junk food advert per week consume an extra 18,000 calories a year. The research will be pre...

Tags: Consumers, Healthy diet, Nutrition, Obesity

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17 May 2018

Glyphosate shown to disrupt microbiome ‘at safe levels’, study claims

Study on rats said to show that the chemical, found in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, poses ‘a significant public health concern’. According to the pilot study, the substance...

Tags: Endocrine disruptors, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

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08 May 2018

Weedkiller products more toxic than their active ingredient, tests show

After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show that some popular weedkilling products, like Monsanto’s widely-used Roundup, have higher rates of toxicity t...

Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

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07 May 2018

Fipronil: results of follow-up monitoring published

On 3 May 2018, EFSA published its analysis of food data collected following the widespread detection of fipronil in eggs last summer. The analysis showed that 742 out of 5,000 samp...

Tags: Consumers, EFSA, Fipronil, Food Safety

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04 May 2018

Evolved Nutrition Label to be launched in some EU countries

Mondelēz International, Nestlé, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company and Unilever will start to add the Evolved Nutrition Label (ENL) to products in some EU countries, they announced o...

Tags: Consumers, Food Packaging, Healthy diet, Labelling, Nutrition, Transparency

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24 Apr 2018

France bans use of meaty names for veggie food

France looks set to prohibit meat terms from being used to describe plant-based foods, with MPs backing a proposal to ban producers of meat substitutes from using phrases like “s...

Tags: Consumers, France, Labelling, Meat, Transparency, Vegan

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18 Apr 2018

Farmers hail new transparency rules in food safety, still want science-based decisions

EU farmers have welcomed the European Commission’s new rules on transparency in food safety assessments. However, it is still uncertain to which extent this will ensure that futu...

Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup, Transparency

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18 Apr 2018

Landmark new EU food waste laws voted through

On 18 April the European Parliament voted to formally adopt the revised Waste Framework Directive, which will shape the next 13 years of EU action on food waste as part of the Circ...

Tags: European Parliament, Food Waste, Member States