The vast majority of the Norwegian food industry supports the date packaging wording “Best before, but often good after” in order to help reduce food waste.

Sixty Dutch farms producing organic eggs were found to have illegally used fifteen pesticides and disinfectants, according to the association Foodwatch.

Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has passed, in the first reading, a new bill n°3871 designed to amend three Ukrainian laws by restricting the use of palm oil for food production – with a special nod to the interests of the domestic dairy industry.

The European Commission has released a new methodology that will allow national consumer authorities to compare the quality and characteristics of food products sold with similar packaging across the EU.

In a 14 June report the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has hit out at misleading labelling “tricks” that it says industry uses to cover up the true quality of food and drink products.

Hofer, an Austrian retailer affiliated with Germany’s supermarket Aldi Süd, has been fined for the misleading presentation of some products in its' Slovenian supermarkets. Hofer used the “Kakovost iz Slovenije” (Quality from Slovenia) label for non-Slovenian produce, according to Slovenian press reports.

The vast majority of the Norwegian food industry supports the date packaging wording “Best before, but often good after” in order to help reduce food waste.

The International Standards Organisation published the new edition of its global food safety management standard ISO 22000 on 19 June.

Sixty Dutch farms producing organic eggs were found to have illegally used fifteen pesticides and disinfectants, according to the association Foodwatch.

The head of EIT Food, a consortium of leading international universities, research bodies and industries, Filip Fontaine, has called on the EU and its member states to “show strong commitment” to research and innovation in the agri-food sector in the next EU long-term budget, the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2021-2027.

Metals topped the list of the substances most frequently found in excessive quantities in livestock and animal products, a report issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)states.

The EU has tightened the specific migration limit (SML) for perchlorate in plastic food contact materials from 0.05 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) of food to 0.002 mg/kg in a 5 June regulation.

The vast majority of the Norwegian food industry supports the date packaging wording “Best before, but often good after” in order to help reduce food waste.

The International Standards Organisation published the new edition of its global food safety management standard ISO 22000 on 19 June.

Sixty Dutch farms producing organic eggs were found to have illegally used fifteen pesticides and disinfectants, according to the association Foodwatch.

The European Commission has condemned the United States’ decision to impose high tariffs on Spanish olives as “unacceptable” and a “protectionist measure”, explaining that the move is already having drastic consequences for local producers.

Romanian centre right MEP Adina-Ioana Vălean is backing a Commission proposal to offer a waiver from EU rules on bottle sizes for the Japanese spirit drink shochu to help ease a future EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA) in a report to be discussed in the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee on 20 June.

Beijing wasted no time in responding to new tariffs announced by the US today (June 15), saying China would immediately impose retaliatory measures ‘of the same scale and strength’.

Claiming that British public opinion is turning against leaving the bloc because they start to see through the ‘deceptions and lies’ of UK politicians, EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan raised the spectre of a second Brexit referendum.

The Ireland question is without doubt one of the thorniest issues posed by the UK’s decision to leave the EU. The British Government’s recognition of this was the reason for the publication of plans this week to operate temporary customs arrangements until a permanent trade agreement can be established.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that it is down to a German court to decide whether the German manufacturer of a whisky called “Glen Buchenbach” had infringed the rights of the Scotch Whisky geographical indication.