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Reports
22 Dec 2025
SAFE releases a Report on Marketing Standards and Novel Foods
This report examines the complex relationship between purchasing power, marketing standards,and the consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and novel foods (NFs) across Western...
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Press Releases
04 Dec 2025
SAFE objects to political agreement on NGTs, calls for EP proposal to be revived
SAFE opposes the political agreement to exempt certain non-genomic techniques(NGTs) from the legal requirements currently applicable to GMOs, to protect organic crops from cross-co...
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Press Releases
19 Nov 2025
Dangers posed by UPFs require global policy action, 43 top researchers say
The increase in the consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) require decisive policy actions, according to three scientific articles published in The Lancet....
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Reports
05 Nov 2025
SAFE writes a report on the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and equitable food
In October 2025, the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and equitable foodsystems released a new evidence-based report addressing nutrition and human healthwithin safe ...
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Open letters
28 Oct 2025
Call to strengthen implementation of EU Pesticide Law to protect health and the environment
The Pesticide Regulation (1107/2009) is a cornerstone of EU legislation, designed to ensure, as a priority, a high level of protection for human health, animal health, biodiversity...
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Press Releases
17 Oct 2025
Copenhagen Plant Food Summit
The Royal Danish Playhouse in Copenhagen hosted the official event of the EU Presidency, with the participation of the Vegetarian Society of Denmark, a member of SAFE....
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Press Releases
10 Sep 2025
SAFE welcomes first mandatory food waste reduction targets in the EU
SAFE Food Advocacy Europe welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament of theWaste Framework Directive, which will introduce the EU’s first binding targets for food waste red...
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Press Releases
09 Sep 2025
SAFE welcomes first mandatory food waste reduction targets
We welcome the adoption by of the Waste Framework Directive by the European Parliament...
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Press Releases
09 Jul 2025
Alternative proteins: discussing social and economic barriers
On 8 July, SAFE organised a workshop on alternative proteins and the social and economicbarriers they encounter, as a part of SAFE’s project EPIC-SHIFT....
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Open letters
07 Jul 2025
Joint letter – The case for demand-side interventions to improve access to healthy diets for cardiovascular health
In view of the Commission’s ongoing preparation of the EU Cardiovascular Health Plan, the European Heart Network, Fern, Animal Advocacy & Food Transition, SAFE, EuroHealthNet...
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Open letters
05 Jun 2025
Joint Letter – Unlock Agriculture’s Climate Action Potential for Climate and Food System Resilience
SAFE and other civil society and farming organisations have expressed concern over the potential weakening of the EU’s 2040 climate targets, urging the Commission to prioritise a...
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Press Releases
27 May 2025
Groundbreaking obesity law approved in Italy
We congratulate our member Amici Obesi, for their important contribution to this landmark law....
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Press Releases
27 May 2025
Introducing BiteWatch: Preventia’s food scanner app
SAFE presents its innovative food scanner app for smartphones with nutritional and ingredient information about food products on supermarket shelves....
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Press Releases
13 May 2025
French court cancels renewal of two glyphosate-based products
Following the decision of a French Administrative Court of Appeal to cancel the renewal of two glyphosate-based products. SAFE supports the content of the ruling but regrets that i...
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Press Releases
02 May 2025
Study links ultra-processed foods to premature deaths
More and more studies are proving the negative health impacts of ultra-processed foods.The EU and Member States must address this risk though regulatory and fiscal policy....
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Press Releases
26 Mar 2025
First EU-wide food waste reduction targets in sight, in new legal update
The European Parliament approved a compromise to amend Waste Framework Directive, including mandatory food waste reduction targets....
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Press Releases
26 Mar 2025
Developing and sharing knowledge on cultured meat and seafood
SAFE is a partner of the Horizon Europe project FEASTS, which is aimed at developing an unbiased knowledge base about cultured meat and seafood. On February 18, SAFE organised the ...
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Reports
11 Mar 2025
SAFE releases a report on food donation in the EU, highlighting barriers and opportunities
According to the 2024 Eurostat data, in the European Union (EU) over 59 million tons of food waste are generated per year. SAFE conducted a study to examine national legislation on...
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Press Releases
19 Feb 2025
SAFE welcomes direct support to sustainable farming in Hansen’s agrifood vision
Food poverty must be actively fought. Europe must take measures to support thepurchasing power of citizens....
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Open letters
01 Feb 2025
Joint Letter – How the proposed Sustainable Food Systems Framework Law should mobilise the private sector to drive the sustainability transition
We welcomed the European Commission’s proposal for a Sustainable Food Systems Law to ensure access to healthy, sustainable food for all. This law must urgently drive the transfor...
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Press Releases
30 Jan 2025
Bisphenol A, R3PACK welcomes the ban from consumer products, calls for stricter protections
The R3PACK Consortium welcomes the recent Bisphenol A ban adopted by the European Commission. Additionally, the consortium strongly encourages policymakers to prioritise public hea...
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Reports
29 Jan 2025
SAFE publishes a report on HFSS Food marketing targeting children
SAFE has finished a report summarising policies to address the marketing of foods high in fat, salt, and sugar (HFSS) targeting children. The document looks at different legislativ...
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Position papers
28 Jan 2025
Building a Sustainable and Diversified Protein Landscape Beyond Polarization: Opportunities for Farmers, Society, and the Environment
SAFE, along with 71 other organisations across the value chain, views the new EU mandate, the momentum from the Draghi and Letta reports, the creation of a Food and Agriculture Vis...
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Press Releases
27 Nov 2024
SAFE welcomes new European Commission, calls for action on misleading labelling, labelling of NGTs, food contaminants, UPFs, and social inclusion
SAFE Food Advocacy Europe is pleased with the formation of the new European Commission following the European Parliament vote. SAFE is eager to collaborate with Commissioners OlivÃ...
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