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Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of
Reading, UK
Providng access to food law since May 1996 |
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Food Law News - 2018
For current news, see Food Law News. For other years, see: Food Law News - Index
- EU: 21 December 2018 HYGIENE - Commission Consultation: Oenological practices authorised in the European Union (delegated rules)
- EU: 21 December 2018 WINE - Commission Consultation: Oenological practices authorised in the European Union (implementing rules)
- EU: 20 December 2018 HYGIENE - Commission Consultation: Commission Regulation as regards Salmonella in reptile meat
- EU: 19 December 2018 CLAIMS - Council discussions: Derogations for the use of certain generic descriptors
- EU: 19 December 2018 CONTAMINATION - Follow-up to the fipronil incident: state of play of implementation
- EU: 19 December 2018 GMOs - Commission authorises two genetically modified products for food and feed use
- UK: 17 December 2018 ENFORCEMENT - Regulating our Future (ROF) - change expectations for local authorities for 2019-2020. Update on the outcome of the consultation on the Food Law Code of Practice
- EU: 17 December 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - Regulation amending general food law - General approach
- EU: 17 December 2018 AUDITS - DG Health and Food Safety publishes its Programme of Audits and Analysis for 2019
- INT: 14 December 2018 CODEX - Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (6th Session)
- UK: 14 December 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Meat official control charges – proposal to remove plant inspection assistant discount
- UK: 13 December 2018 LABELLING - Government response to the consultation on low-alcohol descriptors
- EU: 12 December 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - More transparent scientific studies on food safety: Council agrees its position
- EU: 11 December 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - BEUC Comments: EU Parliament votes to lift the veil on food safety assessments
- EU: 11 December 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - Food safety: more transparency, better risk prevention
- EU: 11 December 2018 HYGIENE - Council discussions: Microbiological criteria for foodstuffs
- EU: 11 December 2018 HYGIENE - Council discussions: Salmonella testing and sampling in poultry
- EU: 11 December 2018 CONTAMINANTS - Council discussions: Pesticides: maximum residue levels for various substances
- UK: 10 December 2018 LABELLING - Dairy UK and the PTF Launch New Codes of Practice to Safeguard Cheese and Cream Standards
- EU: 10 December 2018 SPIRIT DRINKS - Council discussions: Spirit drinks: registration of 'Tequila' as geographical indication
- UK: 10 December 2018 BREXIT - Food and Drink Federation response to Prime Minister's statement
- EU: 10 December 2018 BREXIT - The United Kingdom is free to revoke unilaterally the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU
- INT: 10 December 2018 CODEX - Codex task force convenes to forge ahead on antimicrobial resistance
- EU: 7 December 2018 CONTAMINANTS - Council discussions: Pesticides - maximum residue levels for iprodione
- EU: 7 December 2018 NUTRITION - EU moves closer to long-awaited limit to heart-clogging trans fat
- EU: 7 December 2018 NUTRITION - Member States support Commission's proposal to cut down presence of trans fatty acids
- UK: 6 December 2018 BREXIT / MEAT HYGIENE - The new form of the UK’s Health and Identification Marks
- UK: 5 December 2018 BREXIT / ALLERGENS / ENFORCEMENT - Summary of discussions at the FSA Board meeting on 5 December 2018
- UK: 4 December 2018 NUTRITION / LABELLING - House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Report: Energy drinks and children
- UK: 4 December 2018 BREXIT - Food and feed safety risk assessment and management if there’s no Brexit deal
- UK: 3 December 2018 BREXIT / CLAIMS - DHSC Consultation: The Nutrition (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
- INT: 30 November 2018 CODEX - Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (40th Session)
- UK: 30 November 2018 BREXIT - Councils advised to set up ‘food resilience teams’ to prepare for Brexit
- EU: 29 November 2018 RESIDUES – Council discussions: Pesticides: maximum residue levels for various substances
- UK: 28 November 2018 LABELLING - Environment Secretary meets retailers and allergy groups as allergen labelling review progresses
- EU: 27 November 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - EU Parliament: EU food watchdog: more transparency, better risk prevention
- EU: 27 November 2018 SPIRIT DRINKS - Commission welcomes agreement on new rules for spirit drinks
- UK: 26 November 2018 LEGISLATION - Food and feed law: legislation review (July to September 2018)
- INT: 26 November 2018 CODEX - Codex nutrition committee dedicated to those with special needs requiring special care
- EU: 26 November 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - EU Parliament’s ENVI committee must vote to end secrecy around food safety assessments
- EU: 25 November 2018 BREXIT - Special meeting of the European Council (Art. 50)
- UK: 22 November 2018 ADDITIVES - Consultation on Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (England) Regulations 2013
- UK: 22 November 2018 ENFORCEMENT - Publication of review of Food Standards delivery
- UK: 21 November 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Birmingham meat cutting plant fined over £43,000 for hygiene failings
- EU: 19 November 2018 FLAVOURINGS - Council discussions: N-(2-methylcyclohexyl)-2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzamide to be listed as an evaluated substance in the Union list of flavouring substances
- EU: 19 November 2018 CONTACT MATERIALS - Council discussions - Recent scientific opinions on particular substances that may be used in food contact materials would be taken into account
- EU: 19 November 2018 RESIDUES - Council discussions - Pesticides: maximum residue levels for iprodione
- UK: 19 November 2018 HYGIENE – FSA Consultation: Proposed process for delayed and partial evisceration of poultry
- INT: 16 November 2018 WTO - Technical Barriers to Trade Meeting: New matters raised as trade concerns
- INT: 16 November 2018 CODEX - Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (50th Session)
- UK: 16 November 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Yorkshire abattoir fined for food hygiene failings
- EU: 14 November 2018 BREXIT / PROTECTED DESIGNATIONS - Brexit Negotiations: What is in the Withdrawal Agreement
- INT: 13 November 2018 CODEX COMMITTEE - Landmark food hygiene discussions begin in Panama
- EU: 13 November 2018 COURT OF JUSTICE - The taste of a food product is not eligible for copyright protection / The taste of a food product cannot be classified as a ‘work’
- EU: 13 November 2018 GMOs - Commission’s Chief Scientific Advisors publish statement on the regulation of gene editing
- EU: 7 November 2018 LABELLING - European Citizens' Initiative: Commission registers 'Mandatory food labelling Non-Vegetarian / Vegetarian / Vegan' initiative'
- UK: 6 November 2018 BREXIT / LABELLING - Food labelling: amending laws - DEFRA Consultation
- INT: 1 and 2 November 2018 SPS COMMITTEE - Members discuss precision biotechnology as a tool for agricultural innovation
- UK: 1 November 2018 BREXIT - Draft Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food) (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
- UK: 29 October 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROL - Food Standards Agency: 11th Regulating our Future Newsletter
- EU: 29 October 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission consultation: Rules on a crisis management plan for food and animal feed
- INT: 26 October 2018 CODEX - Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (24th Session)
- UK: 24 October 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - FSA Paper: Changing food regulation: what we’ve done, where we go next
- UK: 23 October 2018 FORTIFICATION - Fortifying flour with folic acid: government to consult
- EU: 23 October 2018 CONTAMINANTS - October 2018 Stakeholder update on rapidly developing policy on food contaminants
- INT: 22 October 2018 CODEX COMMITTEE - Codex committee discusses modern solutions to enhance the integrity of the global food trade and protect consumers
- INT: 20 October 2018 CODEX COMMITTEE - CCFICS: Fran Freeman to Chair first committee session in Brisbane, Australia
- EU: 19 October 2018 BEEF / HORMONES - European Commission welcomes Member States' support to settle WTO dispute with the United States
- UK: 17 October 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - The Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland Boards respond positively to the UK-wide meat Review
- EU: 17 October 2018 FOOD LAW - Don't delay General Food Law, BEUC urges Members of European Parliament
- UK: 16 October 2018 HONEY / NAUTRAL MINERAL WATERS - Consultation on amending domestic food legislation
- EU: 12 October 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission consultation: Consignments subject to border control checks - additional categories
- UK: 11 October 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Review of UK meat processing identifies improvements
- UK: 10 October 2018 LABELLING - CIEH Statement: Food Labelling Loopholes must be closed
- EU: 9 October 2018 WEIGHTS - Council discussions: Placing on the EU market of Japanese shochu
- EU: 9 October 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission consultation: New lists of non-EU countries authorised to import animal products
- EU: 9 October 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission consultation: New rules on food imported from non-EU countries
- EU: 9 October 2018 HYGIENE - Commission consultation: Avoiding contamination of oils and fats transported by sea (permitted previous cargoes)
- UK: 5 October 2018 PROTECTED DESIGNATIONS - Consultation on improved enforcement of the Protected Food Name Scheme
- EU: 5 October 2018 NUTRITION - Food: further steps taken to cutting down presence of fatty acids
- EU: 4 October 2018 NUTRITION – BEUC Statement: Commission publishes it plans to limit unhealthy trans fats
- EU: 4 October 2018 NUTRITION - Comission consultation: Industrial trans fats in foods – setting a legal limit
- UK: 4 October 2018 PROTECTED DESIGNATIONS - Consultation on establishing UK Geographical Indications (GI) schemes after exit
- UK: 27 September 2018 LEGISLATION - Food and feed law: legislation review (April to June 2018)
- EU: 27 September 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission consultation: Practical arrangements for official controls of food of animal origin
- EU: 27 September 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission consultation: Establishing specific rules for official controls on meat & live bivalve mollusc production and relaying area
- EU: 25 September 2018 RASFF - Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) annual report: record exchange of information helped to trace and remove affected products from the market
- UK: 24 September 2018 BREXIT - FDF response to Government's latest 'No-Deal' Technical Notices
- EU: 21 September 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission report and staff working document on official controls regarding compliance with feed and food law, animal health and welfare rules in Member States
- EU: 20 September 2018 ORGANIC / HALAL FOODS - Advocate General Wahl proposes that the Court find that products from animals that have been the subject of ritual slaughter without prior stunning can be issued the European ‘organic farming’ label
- EU: 19 September 2018 LABELLING - European Citizens' Initiative: Commission registers ‘Eat ORIGINal! Unmask your food' initiative
- EU: 19 September 2018 LABELLING - Origin-labelling for meat – Consultation and evaluation roadmap
- UK: 19 September 2018 ENFORCEMENT / ADMINISTRATION - Summary of discussions at FSA Board meeting 19 September 2018
- EU: 18 September 2018 ADDITIVES / FLAVOURINGS - Council discussions: Food regulations
- EU: 18 September 2018 CONTAMINANTS – Council Discussions: Amendments of pesticides - maximum residue levels
- UK: 14 September 2018 ENFORCEMENT - Update on development of National Inspection Strategies for food
- UK: 14 September 2018 NUTRITION / LABELLING - Consultation: Calorie labelling for food and drink served outside of the home
- INT: 13 September 2018 CODEX - New edition of ‘Understanding Codex’ now available
- EU: 13 September 2018 DUAL QUALITY - Consumer product quality: Parliament takes aim at dual standards
- UK: 13 September 2018 ENFORCEMEN T - FSA publishes local authority food law enforcement information
- UK: 11 September 2018 HYGIENE - Proposed Changes to the UK Health and Identification Marking
- UK: 5 September 2018 BREXIT - Government must be honest on suspending food regulations, say CIEH and Lord Bassam
- UK: 4 September 2018 BREXIT – FSA Consultation: Proposed Approach to Retained EU Law for Food and Feed Safety and Hygiene
- EU: 3 September 2018 BEEF - EU-US Trade: European Commission recommends settling longstanding WTO dispute
- UK: 30 August 2018 ENERGY DRINKS - DHSC Consultation: Ending the sale of energy drinks to children
- UK: 30 August 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROL - 2017 Annual Report on UK Multi-Annual National Control Plan published
- EU: 23 August 2018 EFSA - Third external evaluation of EFSA – progress made, recommendations for improvement
- UK: 23 August 2018 BREXIT - FDF response to Government's No-Deal' Technical Notices
- INT: 17 August 2018 CODEX - Input invited from Members and Observers on Codex future plan
- EU: 3 August 2018 GMOs - Commission authorises five Genetically Modified products for food and feed use
- EU: 27 July 2018 PROTECTED DESIGNATIONS - EU to join the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement to better protect GIs
- UK: 27 July 2018 HYGIENE - Proposed changes to the health and identification marks
- UK: 25 July 2018 LEGISLATION - Food and feed law: legislation review (January to March 2018)
- EU: 25 July 2018 GMOs - Organisms obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs and are, in principle, subject to the obligations laid down by the GMO Directive
- EU: 19 July 2018 BREXIT - European Commission publishes Communication on preparing for the UK's withdrawal from the EU
- UK: 19 July 2018 CONTAMINANTS - Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF): Annual Report for 2017
- EU: 17 July 2018 FISHERY PRODUCTS - Public consultation on EU marketing standards for fishery and aquaculture products
- INT: 13 July 2018 WTO SPS -Members advance discussion on the Fifth Review of the SPS Agreement
- EU: 12 July 2018 QUALITY - Consumer product quality: MEPs take aim at dual standards
- EU: 12 July 2018 QUALITY - BEUC Comments: European Parliament’s Consumer Protection Committee sends strong signal on dual product quality
- INT: 9 July 2018 CODEX - 41st Commission reaffirms commitment to science and consensus
- EU: 9 July 2018 CONTAMINANTS - July 2018 Stakeholder update on rapidly developing policy on food contaminants
- INT: 2-6 July 2018 CODEX – Executive Summary of the 41st Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission
- INT: 6 July 2018 CODEX - Updates of decisions being taken at the ongoing 41st Session in Rome, Italy
- UK: 5 July 2018 ENFORCEMENT -FSA Consultation: Regulating Our Future- Amendments to the Food Law Code of Practice (England)
- UK: 4 July 2018 BREXIT - Parliament: Committee considers how decisions on food safety risks will be made post-Brexit
- INT: 2 July 2018 CODEX - Codex annual meeting opens: The Codex Alimentarius Commission ready to adopt new standards in its 41st session
- UK: 28 June 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - The Operational Policy for the approval of meat establishments undertaken by the FSA
- UK: 28 June 2018 FSA publishes its Annual Report and Accounts for 2017/18
- UK: 28 June 2018 ENFORCEMENT - FSA welcomes guilty verdict in DNP trial
- UK: 27 June 2018 BEEF - China lifts ban on exports of British beef
- INT: 26 June 2018 CODEX - Codex holds great responsibility for the global society of food safety - Executive Committee begins two days of deliberations in Rome
- EU: 26 June 2018 FLAVOURINGS – Council discussions: Food regulation on flavourings
- UK: 25 June 2018 ENFORCEMENT - Tenth Regulating Our Future Newsletter
- EU: 25 June 2018 ORGANIC FOOD - Commission draft implementing regulation: Modification and extension of current rules on organic production
- EU: 25 June 2018 HYGIENE - Commission Draft Regulation: Amending Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs as regards certain methods, the food safety criterion for Listeria monocytogenes in sprouted seeds and the process hygiene criterion and food safety criterion
- UK: 25 June 2018 NUTRITION / LABELLING - Childhood obesity: a plan for action - Chapter 2
- EU: 22 June 2018 FLAVOURINGS - Council discussions: Food regulation on flavourings
- EU: 20 June 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - BEUC Publication: Closing the Trust Gap Between Consumers and the EU Food Regulatory System
- UK: 20 June 2018 BREXIT / ENFORCMENT / MEAT HYGIENE / MILK - Summary of discussions from the FSA Board meeting 20 June 2018
- INT: 19 June 2018 TBT AGREEMENT - WTO members intensify discussions on standards
- EU: 18 June 2018 CLAIMS – Council Discussions: Health claims on foods
- EU: 14 June 2018 LABELLING - Food labels can fool you: BEUC publishes EU snapshot
- EU: 14 June 2018 QUALITY - Dual quality of food: European Commission releases common testing methodology
- EU: 8 June 2018 LABELLING - Commission notice on questions and answers on the application of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers
- EU: 7 June 2018 PROTECTED INDICATIONS – Court judgement: In order to decide whether there is an ‘evocation’ prohibited by EU law, the national court must determine whether a consumer thinks directly of the protected geographical indication
- UK: 6 June 2018 ENFORCECMENT – FSA Board Paper: Mid-Point Programme Report – Regulating Our Future
- UK: 6 June 2018 BREXIT - An update on the Food Standards Agency’s preparations for the UK’s exit from the European Union
- UK: 6 June 2018 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES - Hull based retailer fined for selling rotten fruit and vegetables: Rural Payments Agency secures fine after investigation.
- INT: 31 May 2018 CODEX - Food import export working group makes progress on draft standards
- EU: 30 May 2018 FISH - Common Fisheries Policy: Commission proposes new rules to step up enforcement
- EU: 30 May 2018 FISH - Imported and EU fisheries products should be treated equally: European Parliament discussions
- EU: 29 May 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Judgment in Case C-426/16The Court confirms that ritual slaughter without stunning may take place only in an approved slaughterhouse
- EU: 29 May 2018 PESTICIDES - Amendments of pesticides - maximum residue levels: Council discussions
- EU: 28 May 2018 LABELLING - Commission adopts new rules on labelling origin of primary ingredients in food
- EU: 22 May 2018 ORGANIC FOOD - Organic farming: new EU rules adopted: Council Press Release
- EU: 22 May 2018 ORGANIC FOOD - Organic farming: Council discussions
- EU: 22 May 2018 ORGANIC FOOD - New rules for organic production: Statement by Commissioner Phil Hogan
- EU: 17 May 2018 PESTICIDES - The General Court confirms the validity of the restrictions introduced at EU level in 2013 against the insecticides clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid because of the risks those substances pose to bees
- EU: 15 May 2018 WINE - Commission consultation: Protected designations of origin and geographical indications, traditional terms and labelling of wine
- EU: 15 May 2018 WINE - Commission consultation: Protected designations of origin and geographical indications, traditional terms of wine
- EU: 14 May 2018 SPIRIT DRINKS – Council discussions: Amending and correcting labelling requirements for spirit drinks
- EU: 14 May 2018 PESTICIDE RESIDUES – Council discussions: Amendments of pesticides - maximum residue levels
- INT: 11 May 2018 CODEX - Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (39th Session)
- UK: 14 May 2018 GMOs - Post Implementation Review of The Specified Products from China (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (England) Regulations 2012
- UK: 4 May 2018 ANIMAL WELFARE - CCTV becomes mandatory in all abattoirs in England
- UK: 1 May 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Challenge group scrutinise UK-wide review into meat processing plants
- EU: 30 April 2018 DUAL QUALITY - Welcoming EU-harmonised methodology for food quality characteristics
- INT: 27 April 2018 CODEX - Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Food (24th Session)
- INT: 26 April 2018 GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS - Origin labelling of food a boost for local economies and sustainable development
- EU: 25 April 2016 FRAUD - Fight against food fraud: Commission's contribution to Europol/Interpol action against fraudulent fresh tuna
- UK: 25 April 2018 BREXIT - Business groups unite to call for post Brexit alignment within the UK on food and nutritional labelling and standards
- INT: 24 April 2018 CONTAMINANTS - Codex committee deliberates limits to set on veterinary drugs in foods
- EU: 23 April 2018 CONTAMINANTS - April 2018 Stakeholder update on rapidly developing policy on food contaminants
- EU: 19 April 2018 LABELLING - FoodDrinkEurope welcomes EU discussion on FOP nutrition labelling
- EU: 19 April 2018 ORGANIC FOOD - Organic food: MEPs tighten EU rules to match consumer expectations
- EU: 17 April 2018 WASTE - EU action against food waste: Commission publishes guidelines to facilitate valorisation of food no longer intended for human consumption as animal feed
- UK: 16 April 2018 ENFORCEMENT - Ninth Regulating Our Future Newsletter
- EU: 16 April 2018 CONTACT MATERIALS – Council discussions: Proposed amendment to the plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food regulation
- EU: 16 April 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT – Council discussions: Transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain
- EU: 16 April 2018 FOOD WASTE – Council discussions on the reduction of food waste
- INT: 14 April 2018 CODEX - Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (50th Session)
- EU: 11 April 2018 DUAL QUALITY - A New Deal for Consumers: Commission strengthens EU consumer rights and enforcement
- EU: 11 April 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - EU Commission wants to end secrecy around food safety assessment
- EU: 11 April 2018 RISK ASSESSMENT - Commission acts to boost trust in scientific studies on food safety
- INT: 10 April 2018 CODEX - Pesticide Residues 50th session in Haikou China
- UK: 9 April 2018 CONTACT MATERIALS - FSA Consultation: Proposed The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018
- INT: 30 March 2018 CODEX - Codex Committee on Food Additives (50th Session) - Report
- EU: 28 March 2018 FRAUD - The EU Food Fraud Network and the System for Administrative Assistance & Food Fraud - Annual Report 2017
- EU: 28 March 2018 FOOD QUALITY - Dual quality of products in the Single Market: Parliamentary Committee to discuss issue
- EU: 28 March 2018 ADDITIVES - Commission Notice: Authorisation to maintain national measures which are more stringent than provisions of an EU harmonisation measure [nitrites in meat products]
- EU: 27 March 2018 VETERINARY RESIDUES - Negotiation mandate for revising an agreement with the US on the import of hormone-free beef
- UK: 27 March 2018 HYGIENE - Proposal to allow pet food production in food establishments
- INT: 26 March 2018 CONTAMINANTS - Comment on the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food 12th Session
- INT: 16 March 2018 CODEX - Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (12th Session) - Report
- UK: 16 March 2018 BREXIT - Rules of origin: Food and drink sector faces hidden hard Brexit
- UK: 15 March 2018 LABELLING - A Consultation on Low Alcohol Descriptors
- UK: 14 March 2018 FSA BOARD - Summary of discussions at FSA Board meeting 14 March 2018 (includes science review, raw drinking milk policy and international engagement)
- EU: 14 March 2018 GMOs - The General Court annuls the decision whereby the Commission rejected an application for review of the marketing authorisation granted to products containing genetically modified soybeans
- UK: 12 March 2018 LEGISLATION - Food and feed law: legislation review (October to December 2017)
- EU: 12 March 2018 LABELLING - Alcohol makers fail to meet consumers’ expectations for on-label information
- EU: 12 March 2018 DIEATARY FOODS -Council discussions: Protein requirements for follow-on formula
- EU: 12 March 2018 FOOD QUALITY - Commission launches Knowledge Centre to boost food quality and step up the fight against food fraud
- INT: 11 March 2018 CONTAMINANTS - Codex Meeting: Contaminants in Foods - Utrecht, The Netherlands 12-16 March
- UK: 6 March 2018 ENFORCEMENT - FSA trials new technology for remote monitoring of food businesses
- INT: 6 March 2018 WTO - SPS Meeting: Members adopt catalogue of instruments for managing food safety, animal, plant health issues
- EU: 5 March 2018 PESTICIDE RESIDUES – Council discussions: Regulation on maximum residue levels of pesticides
- UK: 1 March 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Industry-wide review launched into meat processing plants across the UK
- UK: 1 March 2018 ENFORCEMENT - National Co-ordinated Food Standards Sampling programme 2016/17 summary report
- EU: 1 March 2018 OLIVE OIL - Commission consultation: Certain indications on the labelling of olive oil
- EU: 28 February 2018 WINE / SPIRITS - New rules simplify tracking and identification of wine
- EU: 28 February 2018 LABELLING - Food waste: better use and understanding of date marking by all actors could reduce food waste, according to new study
- EU: 27 February 2018 PESTICIDES – Council discussions: Amendments of pesticides - maximum residue levels
- EU: 26 February 2018 ADDITIVES / FLAVOURINGS – Council discussions: Food regulations
- EU: 26 February 2018 LABELLING / QUALITY FOODS - Court Judgement: Foodstuff containing champagne as an ingredient - Ingredient conferring on the foodstuff an essential characteristic
- EU: 23 February 2018 FOOD INFORMATION / OFFICIAL CONTROL - eCommerce: Commission publishes results of first EU-wide control of Internet marketed food
- EU: 22 February 2018 ORGANIC FOOD - Court of Auditors Background Paper: Organic Food in the EU
- EU: 22 February 2018 LABELLING - Interpretation of EU law provisions relating to geographical indications for spirit drinks
- UK: 20 February 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Joint Statement: Food Standards Agency, Food Standards Scotland and representatives of the UK meat industry
- EU: 19 February 2018 PESTICIDES - Amendments of pesticides - maximum residue levels
- UK: 18 February 2018 BREXIT - FDF response to EFRA Committee report - Brexit: Trade in Food
- EU: 16 February 2018 NOVEL FOODS - Novel food applications: new administrative guidance for applicants
- UK: 15 February 2018 FISH - Labelling and Traceability of Fish and Fishery Products
- UK: 14 February 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - The Food Standards Agency welcomes Birmingham Halal Abattoir Ltd fine
- EU: 14 February 2018 CONTACT MATERIALS - Bisphenol A: more stringent measures for food contact materials
- EU: 11 February 2018 BREXIT - FDF signatories of NFU Brexit statement
- UK: 11 February 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Fairfax Meadow begins voluntary withdrawal of meat products
- UK: 8 February 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Meat products recall by Muscle Food
- UK: 7 February 2018 CONTAMINANTS - Post implementation review of the Contaminants in Food (England) Regulations 2013
- EU: 6 February 2018 PESTICIDES - European Parliament sets up special committee on EU authorisation process
- UK: 5 February 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Production allowed to resume at one Russell Hume site
- UK: 5 February 2018 ENFORCEMENT - Post implementation review of the Food Safety (Sampling & Qualifications) (England) Regulations 2013
- UK: 2 February 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Report on Fact Finding Mission to the Unitied Kingdom to Assess Synergies of Official Controls
- EU: 2 February 2018 FOOD QUALITY - Press speakings of Commissioner Jourová at a joint press conference on dual quality of food with Chair of Czech Parliament Agriculture committee Mr. Faltynek
- EU: 2 February 2018 FOOD QUALITY - Commission announces dual quality of food testing campaign
- EU: 1 February 2018 BREXIT - Notice To Stakeholders: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU Food Law
- UK: 1 February 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Review of cutting plants and cold stores
- EU: 31 January 2018 FISHERY PRODUCTS - Commission consultation: Evaluation of the marketing standards framework for fishery and aquaculture products
- UK: 30 January 2018 ENFORCEMENT - Eighth Regulating our Future Newsletter
- EU: 29 January 2018 BREXIT - European Commission receives mandate to begin negotiations with the United Kingdom on transitional arrangements
- EU: 29 January 2018 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - European Union reference laboratories for African horse sickness and for fish and crustacean diseases
- UK: 26 January 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - FSA update on Russell Hume
- EU: 26 January 2018 CLAIMS - Misleading food claims: 9 years and counting for EU to act
- EU: 25 January 2018 SPIRITS - Definition, presentation and labelling of spirit drinks: Parliament committee discussions
- EU: 25 January 2018 QUALITY - Commission Enforcement Action: January infringements package: key decisions
- UK: 24 January 2018 MEAT HYGIENE - Action taken at meat business
- EU: 23 January 2018 BREXIT - Commission Notices to Stakeholders (Natural Mineral Waters / GMOs / Pesticides)
- EU: 23 January 2018 MEAT - Commission Consultation: Commission Regulation on alignment of the BSE and TSE attestation in certificates for the import of animal by-products
- EU: 23 January 2018 GENERAL FOOD LAW - Public Consultation on the transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain
- UK: 22 January 2018 CLAIMS - FDF launches new guidance on comparative nutrition claims
- INT: 18 January 2018 CODEX - Rescheduling the regional coordinating committees
- EU: 18 January 2018 PESTICIDES - Parliament to set up special committee
- EU: 18 January 2018 GMOs - According to Advocate General Bobek, organisms obtained by mutagenesis are, in principle, exempted from the obligations in the Genetically Modified Organisms Directive
- EU: 17 January 2018 INFANT FORMULAE - Update on Salmonella Agona outbreak
- UK: 17 January 2018 HYGIENE - The Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland welcomes first prosecution of a business for failing to display food hygiene rating
- EU: 15 January 2018 GENERAL FOOD LAW – Results of the Fitness Check (REFIT) on the General Food Law Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 178/2002)
- EU: 4 January 2018 LABELLING - Commission Consultation: Implementing Regulation on the provision of voluntary indication of origin or place of provenance of foods
- EU: 3 January 2018 NOVEL FOODS - New regulation adding to the food variety present on the EU market enters into force
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