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18 December 2013 NOVEL FOODS - Food: Commission tables proposals on animal cloning and novel food
17 December 2013 LABELLING - Council discussions: "Traffic lights" nutrition labelling system
17 December 2013 HEALTH CLAIMS - Council discussions: Health claims made on foods
17 December 2013 ADDITIVES - Council discussions: Authorisation of sulphur dioxide-sulphites in aromatised wine-based products
17 December 2013 LABELLING - Commission tables report to launch debate on mandatory origin labelling for meat used as an ingredient
13 December 2013 GMOs - The General Court has annulled the Commission’s decisions concerning authorisation to place on the market the genetically modified potato Amflora
13 December 2013 ADDITIVES - EU Smoke flavouring legislation published
10 December 2013 ADDITIVES - EFSA completes full risk assessment on aspartame and concludes it is safe at current levels of exposure
6 December 2013 IMPORTS - EU updates list of imports of plant origin subject to reinforced border checks
6 December 2013 LABELLING - Member States back Commission proposal setting up clearer origin labelling rules for pork, sheep, goat and poultry meat
6 December 2013 LABELLING - Commission fosters debate on potential "local food" labelling scheme
4 December 2013 HEALTH CLAIMS - Bulletin for Interested Parties: Commission Regulation (EU) No 536/2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 432/2012
4 December 2013 FOODS FOR SPECIFIC GROUPS - Update from the European Commission’s Working Group meeting on Foods for Specific Groups, 15 November 2013
2-3 December 2013 SUPPLEMENTS - Food supplements - Council discussions
2-3 December 2013 SPIRITS - Spirit drinks - Amendment of the list of geographical indications - Council discussions
25 November 2013 HEALTH CLAIMS - Update from the European Commission’s Working Group meeting on health claims, 18 November 2013
21 November 2013 GMOs - EFSA issues supplementary statement on GM maize 59122
15 November 2013 FOODS FOR SPECIFIC GROUPS - Update from the European Commission's Working Group meeting on Foods for Specific Groups, 30 October 2013
15 November 2013 LABELLING - Gluten in food: Council discussions
6 November 2013 GMOs - Statement by EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg, on Commission's decision on GM Pioneer 1507
6 November 2013 GMOs - Commission asks Council to agree on its proposal to grant Member States more subsidiarity on cultivation
2 November 2013 BEEF - Commission welcomes the US Rule announcement to bring the US legislation in line with international standards for BSE
25 October 2013 PARNUTS - 'Growing-up' formula: No additional value to a balanced diet, says EFSA
10 October 2013 ADDITIVES - Flavouring substances and food additives: Council discussions
9 October 2013 HYGIENE - Green light for reform of pig inspections
9 October 2013 HYGIENE - Parliament authorises reform of public health checks on pork
27 September 2013 FOODS FOR SPECIFIC GROUPS - Update from the European Commission’s Working Group meeting on Foods for Specific Groups, 13 September 2013
26-27 September 2013 COMPOSITIONAL STANDARDS - Breakfast directives - Commission implementing powers – Council discussions
23 September 2013 HEALTH CLAIMS / ADDITIVES - Health claims and food additives; Council discussions
30 August 2013 CONTAMINANTS / ADDITIVES - Chemical Safety Divisional Update (August 2013)
30 July 2013 HEALTH CLAIMS - Commission Regulation (EU) No 536/2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 432/2012 establishing a list of permitted health claims made on foods
29 July 2013 IMPORT CONTROLS - Latest Report on controls of fruit and vegetable imports shows system is protecting European consumers
15 July 2013 ADDITIVES / PARNUTS - Authorisation of food additives and follow-on formulae: Council discussions
15 July 2013 MEAT - Mislabelling of beef products: Council discussions
12 July 2013 CLAIMS - Update from the European Commission's Working Group meeting on health claims, 8 July, 2013
10 July 2013 MEAT - Mislabelling of beef products: Background information for Council discussions
9 July 2013 ADDITIVES / FLAVOURINGS - Council discussions on amendments to food flavourings and food additives
27 June 2013 HYGIENE - Meat inspection: EFSA completes review of practices and recommends improvements
14 June 2013 HEALTH CLAIMS - Draft Commission Regulation setting the rules for applications for authorisations of generic descriptors
12 June 2013 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Conference on Animal, Plant and Control Package: Smart Rules for Safer Food
12 June 2013 PARNUTS - European Parliament agreement to legislation on ‘Foods for Specific Groups’ – Additional details
11 June 2013 IMPORTS - EU updates list of imports of plant origin subject to reinforced border checks
11 June 2013 PARNUTS - New rules for baby food, special diet food and low-calorie food (EP Report)
11 June 2013 PARNUTS - Questions and Answers on new rules for specific groups of consumers
11 June 2013 PARNUTS - New strengthened rules for food for infants, young children and food for specific medical purpose
10 June 2013 RASFF - 2012 Report on Europe’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed: Questions & Answers
10 June 2013 RASFF - Keeping dangerous food off the shelves : Commission publishes annual report on EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed
31 May 2013 ADDITIVES – Food additives – Making our food safer [New controls becoming fully effective]
23 May 2013 HYGIENE - UK FSA welcomes changes to EU pig inspections
22 May 2013 FLAVOURINGS - EU votes to ban 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene
21 May 2013 LABELLING - Labelling of foods with added Phytosterols (Council discussions)
14 May 2013 GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS - Commission to highlight potential benefit of Geographical Indications for African, Caribbean & Pacific agri-food products
13-14 May 2013 ADDITIVIES - Food additives (Council discussions)
8 May 2013 PROTECTED NAMES - Commission approves requests to protect seven food names
8 May 2013 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission proposes revisions to food and feed regulations [FSA Announcement]
6 May 2013 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Smarter rules for safer food: Questions and Answers on the Commission proposals to modernise, simplify and strengthen the agri-food chain in Europe
6 May 2013 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Smarter rules for safer food: Commission proposes landmark package to modernise, simplify and strengthen the agri-food chain in Europe
29 April 2013 GM FOOD - Member States back Commission control measures on unauthorised GM rice products from China
18 April 2013 RADIOACTIVITY - Commission reviews measures on imports from Japan
16 April 2013 MEAT - Commission publishes European test results on horse DNA and Phenylbutazone: no food safety issues but tougher penalties to apply in the future to fraudulent labelling
11 April 2013 COURT JUDGEMENT - EU law allows national authorities to provide the public with information identifying food which is not prejudicial to health, but which is unfit for human consumption
20 March 2013 CLAIMS - Update from the European Commission’s Working Group meeting on health claims, 18 March 2013
13 March 2013 SPIRIT DRINKS - Parliament blocks EU definition of "Absinthe"
28 February 2013 MEAT - Horse meat: EU and member states must step up food chain checks, MEPs say
25-26 February 2013 MEAT - Mislabelling of processed beef products: Discussions at Council meeting
19 February 2013 MEAT - Horsemeat: MEPs demand tougher controls and stricter labelling
19 February 2013 MEAT - Horse meat: Commission adopts control plan to detect fraud in the marketing of foods
15 February 2013 MEAT - Horse meat: Member States endorse the Commission's control plan to detect fraud in the marketing of foods
15 February 2013 MEAT - Statement by Health & Consumer Policy, Tonio Borg, following the French authorities' announcement on their horsemeat investigation
15 February 2013 ADDITIVES - Authorisation of food additives: Council discussions
14 February 2013 MEAT - Horsemeat in food products: Commissioner Malmström welcomes Europol's lead role in investigations
13 February 2013 MEAT - Statement by Commissioner Borg on the findings of horse meat in meat products containing different type of meat
13 February 2013 MEAT - Commissioner Borg proposes Member States a coordinated control plan on horsemeat
6 February 2013 BEEF - Re-opening of the Japanese market for imports of EU beef and beef products and allowing beef imports from Japan to the EU
4 February 2013 HYGIENE - EU authorises the use of lactic acid for decontamination of bovine carcasses
11 January 2013 ADDITIVES - EU Regulation introducing changes to the use of food additives containing aluminium
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