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News
26 Feb 2024
EU agri-food trade surplus continued to further grow in November 2023
In November 2023, the EU’s agri-food trade surplus continued its upward trend, reaching €6.9 billion, marking a 3% increase from the previous month and a substantial 27% ri...
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News
22 Feb 2024
European Commission proposes measures to ease administrative burdens on farmers
The European Commission sent a paper to the Belgian Presidency outlining first possible actions to help reduce the administrative burden weighing on farmers. This document, schedul...
Tags: CAP, European Commission
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News
15 Feb 2024
EU Parliament’s Environment Committee adopts position on Waste Framework Directive
On Wednesday, the Environment Committee MEPs adopted their position on the proposed Waste Framework Directive revision, setting more ambitious targets for reducing food waste. The ...
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News
09 Feb 2024
Potential of seaweed for sustainability and food security
The importance of seaweed is becoming more widely recognised as a key component of both global food security and aquaculture sustainability, as reported by Food Ingredients. Highli...
Tags: Environment, Food security, seaweed, sustainability
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News
08 Feb 2024
NGTs, MEPs vote in favour of mandatory labelling
The European Parliament adopted its position on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), voting in favour of mandatory labelling. A development welcomed by SAFE, which believes that the regu...
Tags: European Parliament, Food Safety, GMO, NGTs
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News - Uncategorized
05 Feb 2024
Labelling challenges for plant-based food
As reported by Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), vegan and plant-based foods lack of a legal definition. Nevertheless, about a 76,4% of consumers believe food labeled a...
Tags: Food Safety, Labeling, plant-based food, Vegan
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News
02 Feb 2024
Combating honey fraud and enhancing traceability and labeling regulations established in the European Union
A crucial step forward has been made when negotiators from the European Parliament and EU Council came to a temporary agreement to combat adulterated honey and improve openness in ...
Tags: EU Council, European Parliament, Honey, Labeling
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News
01 Feb 2024
The farmer demonstrations across Europe are growing
Political leaders have been taken away by the widespread farmer protests that are sweeping the European Union, although the unrest has been simmering for years. Farmers face a plet...
Tags: Agriculture, EU, farmers
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News
26 Jan 2024
Commission authorises GMOs for food and animal feed
The European Commission has granted approval for the utilisation of genetically modified maize and has also extended the authorisation for two genetically modified oilseed rapes fo...
Tags: Food Safety, GMO
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News
25 Jan 2024
Food contaminated with inorganic arsenic: health risks confirmed
The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) recent risk assessment on inorganic arsenic in food reaffirms the findings of a previous study from 2009, confirming health risks ...
Tags: Consumers, EFSA, European Commission, Food Safety
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News
19 Jan 2024
European Parliament vetoes Commission’s proposal to tolerate MRLs for thiacloprid
The European Parliament voted against the European Commission’s proposal to tolerate maximum residue levels (MRLs) for thiacloprid above the determination threshold for around th...
Tags: Food Safety, Pesticides, thiacloprid
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News
15 Jan 2024
Engineered nanomaterials in food, SAFE is concerned about food safety
SAFE Food Advocacy Europe is worried about the impact on food safety by the delegated act that the European Commission is going to adopt to adjust and adapt the definition of engin...
Tags: Consumers, Food Safety, nanomaterials
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