Researchers found that the EU’s Geographical Indications are strongly concentrated in the south of Europe and listed a number of possible factors that could explain this uneven spread.

The U.S. delegation plans to recommend Codex continue working on draft guidelines to harmonize front-of-package (FOP) labeling at a meeting next month, and not wait for the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue its own guidelines, which are in the works.

A revamp to EU consumer protection rules approved in an April 17 European Parliament vote has come under fire from Green/European Free Alliance (EFA) and left-wing MEPs because it does not clearly ban dual quality goods, where products sold under identical brands differ in composition or quality.

Positive impacts for the US ag sector from the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – detailed in a new report from the US International Trade Commission (USITC) – were hailed by US ag and food groups who used the news to reiterate their calls for swift approval of the pact.

Researchers found that the EU’s Geographical Indications are strongly concentrated in the south of Europe and listed a number of possible factors that could explain this uneven spread.

The U.S. delegation plans to recommend Codex continue working on draft guidelines to harmonize front-of-package (FOP) labeling at a meeting next month, and not wait for the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue its own guidelines, which are in the works.

Positive impacts for the US ag sector from the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – detailed in a new report from the US International Trade Commission (USITC) – were hailed by US ag and food groups who used the news to reiterate their calls for swift approval of the pact.

In an otherwise quiet week for European agri-food policy-makers, EU and Japanese leaders will meet in Brussels to assess the initial implementation of their bilateral free trade agreement.

There has been no maladministration in the European Commission’s practice of extending EU approval periods for agrochemical active ingredients (AIs) to allow for delays in renewal procedures, says EU Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly.

France is to ban the food additive titanium dioxide (E 171) from January 1, 2020, French Economics and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced on April 17.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will in future have to publish the studies that industry submits for applications to authorise regulated products, such as additives, pesticides, genetically modified organisms or food contact materials, under a regulation that MEPs cleared April 17 in Strasbourg.

EU agriculture ministers have acknowledged the findings of the European Court of Auditors that the European system for controlling chemicals in foods is overstretched, in conclusions adopted at the April 15 Council.

There has been no maladministration in the European Commission’s practice of extending EU approval periods for agrochemical active ingredients (AIs) to allow for delays in renewal procedures, says EU Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly.

A revamp to EU consumer protection rules approved in an April 17 European Parliament vote has come under fire from Green/European Free Alliance (EFA) and left-wing MEPs because it does not clearly ban dual quality goods, where products sold under identical brands differ in composition or quality.

EU member states have supported proposals for the next EU reassessment of the herbicide, glyphosate, to be handled by a group of rapporteur states comprising France, Hungary, Netherlands and Sweden.

Positive impacts for the US ag sector from the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – detailed in a new report from the US International Trade Commission (USITC) – were hailed by US ag and food groups who used the news to reiterate their calls for swift approval of the pact.

Researchers found that the EU’s Geographical Indications are strongly concentrated in the south of Europe and listed a number of possible factors that could explain this uneven spread.

In an otherwise quiet week for European agri-food policy-makers, EU and Japanese leaders will meet in Brussels to assess the initial implementation of their bilateral free trade agreement.

The UK food industry said it was “mightily relieved” last week by the news that the European Council had offered to extend the Brexit process until October 31.

Average farm profits in England could fall by over a third by 2022 if Britain pursues a ‘hard’ Brexit, according to new projections published today (April 12).

The European Council’s decision last night (April 10) to offer the UK an extension to the Brexit process to October 31 has been greeted with considerable relief by the UK’s food and agriculture industries.