Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Council Minutes, 15 October 2019
The following are two extracts from the Minutes of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting on the 14 and 15 October 2019:
Food safety: state of play on major issues
The Commission informed the Council about the state of play on major issues in the area of food safety. It focused, in particular, on: official controls and crisis management, animal health, animal welfare, plant health, food waste and risk assessment in the food chain.
The Commission invited member states to continue to work on the good implementation of existing hygiene standards to fight food infections. In terms of future priorities, some delegations requested mandatory origin labelling rules. Fight against antimicrobial resistance, animal welfare and the quick adoption of secondary legislation on veterinary medicinal products imports were also mentioned.
Recent Listeria cases in the EU
The Belgian delegation informed the Council about its recent decision to withdraw products from the market as a precautionary measures to protect the health of citizens from recent listeria outbreaks in EU member states.
The Belgian delegation also called on the EU to assess how to minimise delays to the sharing of information between member states, notably through better use of technology.
This item was debated in the context of the discussion on food safety.
