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  • Europol: Massive seizure of fake pesticides which could spray the size of the UK

    13 Jul 2018

    Europol’s annual Operation SILVER AXE III seized the largest-ever amount of illegal or counterfeit pesticides in Europe this week. But the fact that such massive amounts of illeg...

    Tags: Consumers, Environment, EU, Food Safety, Pesticides

  • ‘Enormous potential for the nutrition of millions’: Savanna Ingredients develops natural sugar without calories

    27 Jun 2018

    Germany’s Savanna Ingredients has developed a process to produce allulose – “real sugar without calories” – on a mass scale. The group expects to achieve European...

    Tags: EU, Healthy diet, Nutrition, Sugar

  • High risk of food shortages without pesticides, says chemical giant

    18 Jun 2018

    Head of Syngenta, world’s biggest pesticide maker, says rejecting farming tech could have serious consequences within 20 years. Read the full article on The Guardian here....

    Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, EU, Organic, Pesticides

  • Les agences européennes précisent la définition des perturbateurs endocriniens

    12 Jun 2018

    Après l’adoption fin 2017 des critères  d’identification des perturbateurs endocriniens, les agences européennes ont publié le 7 juin un document d’orientation pou...

    Tags: EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, EU, Food Safety

  • Food safety in the future EU budget (2021-2027)

    11 Jun 2018

    On June 7, the Commission adopted a legislative proposal for a new Single Market Programme, which also addresses food policies. Specific objectives include: supporting sustainable ...

    Tags: EU, European Commission, Food Safety

  • Pesticide Dependency Reductions must become one of the success indicators of the Common Agricultural Policy

    05 Jun 2018

    On the 1st of June, the European Commission has published its legislative proposals and its impact assessment on CAP reform. Within the hundreds of pages of documents, pesticide us...

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

  • European alliance calls for a ‘Common Food Policy’ to replace the CAP

    04 Jun 2018

    Following the EU Food and Farming Forum of 29-30 May 2018, a group of more than 30 European think tanks, NGOs and farming groups have united to call for a ‘Common Food Policy’ ...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU

  • 50 shades of green: Europe’s farm reforms explained

    01 Jun 2018

    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

  • Insufficient consideration for food issue in CAP

    30 May 2018

    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

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

    29 May 2018

    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

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

    24 May 2018

    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

  • Post-2020 CAP: simplification and investments

    26 Mar 2018

    The European Commission, steered by Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, has taken a number of initiatives to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and help EU farmers cope...

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

  • Fakers, bakers and praline-makers fear bite of EU origin labels

    21 Mar 2018

    Following the Commission’s proposal for new legislation on so-called country of origin labelling, food companies fear that they will be forced to indicate the origin of the...

    Tags: Consumers, Country of origin, EU, European Commission, Food Packaging, Labelling, Transparency

  • Fifteen percent of Brussels’ friteries surveyed selling potato fries with high levels of known carcinogen

    27 Feb 2017

    A snapshot survey of potato fries sold in twenty Brussels friteries has discovered three samples with levels of acrylamide, a known carcinogen, above the EU benchmark. A joint inve...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Brussels, Consumers, EFSA, EU, European Parliament

  • Un cancérogène détecté à “un niveau supérieur” dans des biscuits Nestlé pour bébés: L’entreprise réagit

    21 Feb 2017

    De l’acrylamide, une substance cancérogène, a été retrouvée à un niveau supérieur aux indications européennes dans des biscuits pour bébés de marque Nestlé vendus ...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Babies, Consumers, EFSA, EU, France

  • Baby biscuits with high levels of known carcinogen found on sale in France

    20 Feb 2017

    A snapshot survey of a range of biscuits and rusks for babies and infants on sale in France shows that products with high levels of acrylamide, a known carcinogen, continue to be p...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Consumers, EFSA, EU, France

  • Without correct and complete labelling there is no choice!

    14 Nov 2014

    On the 11 of November 2014, the Italian Presidency of the EU organized in the European Parliament in Brussels a conference titled “Food safety and quality towards Expo 2015”. S...

    Tags: EFSA, EU, Italy, Labelling

  • EU project to encourage debate on sustainable diets

    27 Oct 2014

    LiveWell for LIFE is a project funded through the EU’s LIFE Programme for the Environment and will be implemented over three years (2011-2014) by WWF (WWF-UK, WWF European Polic...

    Tags: EU, WWF

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