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Tag: France

  • Emmanuel Macron unveils the priorities of the French EU Presidency

    10 Dec 2021

    French president Emmanuel Macron held a press on conference on December 9th to unveil France’s programme for the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, which w...

    Tags: Agriculture, France, Pesticides, Rotating Presidency, Trade Agreement

  • French Minister of Agriculture Questions the Relevance of the Nutri-Score Algorithm

    26 Nov 2021

    The French Minister for Agriculture and Food, Julien Denormandie recently acknowledged the need to review the nutrition rating system known as Nutri-Score; stating that the system ...

    Tags: Additives, France, Nutri-Score, PDO

  • New French study on the harmfulness of food additives for human health

    17 Nov 2021

    Food additives are substances intentionally added to foodstuffs for various technological, sensory, and nutritional purposes (e.g. extending shelf life, sweetening, or stabilizing ...

    Tags: Additives, E171, EFSA, France

  • French Health Agency updates its risk assessment methods after the E171 ban

    26 Oct 2021

    The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) proposed a new assessment method for nanomaterials to assess their risks in supplement ingred...

    Tags: ANSES, E171, France, nanomaterials

  • European civil society groups raise questions about industry-funded study on E171 toxicity and call on decision-makers to support the French ban on unnecessary food additive

    12 Sep 2019

    A crucial European meeting to discuss the French ban of E171 – the food additive version of titanium dioxide – is due to take place on Monday 16th September. Civil soci...

    Tags: Consumers, E171, European Commission, Food Additives, France, Industry, titanium dioxide

  • Divided opinions about the French ban on E171

    27 Jun 2019

    A recent evaluation of titanium dioxide in food from the French national food safety agency ANSES belied EFSA’s assessment of this substance. The evaluation highlighted significa...

    Tags: E171, EFSA, Food Additives, Food Safety, France, titanium dioxide

  • Food Scandal breaks out in France as distributed burger meat fails to meet quality standards

    11 Jun 2019

    Another food scandal broke out in France, as it was revealed that beef burgers of Polish origin that failed to meet legal standards were sold to charities tackling food poverty. Th...

    Tags: Burger, Food Safety, France, Meat, Poland, Scandal

  • New French Roadmap in the Fight against Obesity: Towards More Ambitious Objectives

    26 Mar 2019

    On 25 March 2019, a French inter-ministerial committee on Health met to formulate target figures regarding the fight against obesity in France, Le Monde.fr reports. By the end of 2...

    Tags: childhood, France, Healthy diet, Obesity, teenager

  • Catena italiana di prodotti sfusi apre negozio a Parigi

    06 Jun 2018

    “Negozio Leggero”, la catena italiana di prodotti senza imballaggi, sbarca a Parigi. Il 23 giugno apre il primo negozio del franchising nella capitale francese, in zona...

    Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, France, Italy

  • France bans use of meaty names for veggie food

    24 Apr 2018

    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

  • Des OGM interdits découverts dans des aliments pour animaux

    21 Feb 2018

    Un vent de panique souffle sur la Commission européenne. Selon des documents officiels auquel Le Monde a eu accès, des produits destinés à l’alimentation animale ont été ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, Consumers, European Commission, Food Safety, France, GMO

  • France enforces ban on unlimited fizzy drinks in crackdown on obesity

    07 Mar 2017

    Restaurants in France face prosecution starting today if they offer unlimited soda drinks to customers in the latest Gallic crackdown on obesity. France had already slapped a tax ...

    Tags: Consumers, France, Obesity, Sugar

  • 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

  • Paris to tackle obesity with junk food tax

    06 Sep 2016

    France is raising the tax on all high calorie foods in an attempt to tackle its increasing weight problem. According to the ObEpi-Roche 2012 survey, 32.3% of French citizens are ov...

    Tags: France, Obesity, Sugar

  • Hormone disrupters found in two thirds of French lettuce

    25 Sep 2015

    An investigation has found that the majority of French lettuce contains traces of hormone disrupting chemicals, some of which are banned. Journal de l’Environnement reports. ...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, France, Hormone

  • France boosts efforts to tackle food waste

    31 Aug 2015

    France’s Minister for Ecology, Ségolène Royale, has obtained a series of commitments from French supermarket chains to limit food waste. She also hopes to change the EU’s exp...

    Tags: Food Waste, France

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