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Reports
26 Mar 2026
SAFE releases a report in partnership with Healthy Food Healthy Planet on regulating HFSS marketing to children
SAFE updated its report on high-fat, sugar, and salt (HFSS) Food Marketing targeting children, in partnership with Healthy Food Healthy Planet. This report highlights how widesprea...
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Open letters
12 Mar 2026
Joint statement: Call on the European Commission to mandate Extended Producer Responsibility for Food Products
SAFE with a coalition of businesses, cities, waste managers and other civil society organisations signed a joint statement to call on the European Commission to introduce an Extend...
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Press Releases
05 Mar 2026
SAFE calls for EU to legally commit to sustainable public procurement
SAFE Food Advocacy Europe calls for the EU to legally commit to sustainable public procurement, in the context of today’s Food Dialogues, organised by the European Commission....
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Press Releases
03 Mar 2026
Danish Vegetarian Society and SAFE react to study on cancer and vegetarian diet
The Danish Vegetarian Society calls for policies to promote healthier diets, by making the healthy choice the easy choice....
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Press Releases
27 Feb 2026
SAFE calls for consumers to follow recommendations on cereulide crisis
SAFE Food Advocacy Europe takes note of the joint rapid outbreak assessment (ROA) on cereulide contamination in infant formula and calls for European consumers to follow its recomm...
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Press Releases
25 Feb 2026
SAFE calls for stricter rules on UPFs at industry-led conference
SAFE’s Deputy Director, Luigi Tozzi, called for strong measures to protect consumers against the negative health impacts of ultra-processed foods....
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Press Releases
09 Feb 2026
Consumers about losing the battle for GMO-free organic food, SAFE warns
SAFE regrets recent legislative steps to make New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) free from mandatory requirements applicable to other genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and warns tha...
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Press Releases
28 Jan 2026
SAFE regrets ENVI Committee endorsement of trilogue deal on NGTs
SAFE issued two press releases on the trilogue deal on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs): one to call for the deal to be rejected by the European Parliament, the other one to call for ...
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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
17 Dec 2025
Cardiovascular Plan falls short of protecting public health, it is time for a UPF tax
SAFE is disappointed that the current proposal refuses to put forward any mandatory taxes or levies, limiting its scope to potential voluntary coordination between member states....
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Press Releases
04 Dec 2025
Key study that led to EU glyphosate authorization withdrawn by top scientific journal
The study used as the basis for the risk assessment leading to the firstauthorization of herbicide glyphosate in the EU in 2002 has been retracted by thescientific journal that pub...
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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 food systems released a new evidence-based report addressing nutrition and human health within saf...
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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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Position papers
22 Oct 2025
Protecting Children and Adolescents from Misleading Marketing and Unlabelled New Genomic Techniques in Food
This position paper highlights the potential impacts New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) could have if the European Commission’s recently proposed regulation is approved in its cur...
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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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