The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is launching an ambitious project of public access to data that it collects and holds through the launch of a scientific “data warehouse.” EFSA announced this initiative on March 2, 2015, with the aim to create an “open science organisation” and increase public access to data that it holds. The ultimate goal is to enhance scientific progress by allowing the use of data by third parties for other purposes.
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Comprehensive New EU Food Labeling Regulation Goes Into Effect December 13
Posted in Food & Beverage, Food & Drug Regulatory
A new food labeling regulation, which revamps the entire EU regulatory framework on food information, including labeling, starts to apply from this Saturday, 13 December 2014. Regulation 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers (FIC Regulation) consolidates a number of EU food laws and establishes some new principles to provide better consumer protection in relation to food information whilst ensuring smooth functioning of the EU market.
The FIC Regulation governs all food information provided to the consumer through any commercial communication, including in particular labeling and websites. The Regulation affects all food business operators along the whole supply chain as it changes the existing provisions and introduces new ones:…
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PARNUTS: Out with the Old and in with the New
By Brian Kelly on
Posted in Food & Beverage, Food & Drug Regulatory
Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes and total diet replacement for weight control, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 12 June 2013. The new Regulation allows the Commission to create specific compositional and information requirements and update the list of categories of allowed nutrient ingredients in these foods from 19th July 2013. …
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The European Commission Proposes New Requirements on Biofuels Marketed in Europe
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Originally published as Covington E-Alert on October 23, 2012
On October 17, 2012, the European Commission presented a proposal that would limit the consumption of food crop biofuels and bioliquids in Europe.1 The proposal is intended to respond to allegations that food crop biofuels and bioliquids result in higher world food prices and indirect land…
European Commission Adopts List of General Health Claims
By Peter Bogaert, Grant Castle & Brian Kelly on
Posted in Food & Beverage, Food & Drug Regulatory
Originally published as Covinton E-Alert on May 25, 2012
On 16 May 2012, the European Commission adopted the much delayed list of permitted general health claims (Permitted List) for foods after scrutiny of the list by the European Parliament and the Council ended on 27 April 2012. The Permitted List contains just 222 health claims…
REACH and Food Packaging
By Cándido García Molyneux on
Posted in Food & Beverage, Food & Drug Regulatory
Article originally published in the Food Packaging Bulletin, January 2010
As with virtually all goods manufactured in, or imported into, the European Economic AreaI, food packaging is subject to the stringent requirements of Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (the so-called “REACH Regulation”)II. Indeed, while substances “used in…