Rules on gluten-free labeling have been published under the EU Food Information to Consumers (FIC) regulation, and there are some important changes for the future, says the Association of European Coeliac Societies (AOECS).
A lack of urgency by the European Commission is partly responsible for the slower than expected uptake of active and intelligent packaging (AIP) and Brussels should introduce a raft of measures, including tax breaks, to speed up adoption of the technology...
The French Government faces being hauled into court unless it can convince Brussels that it has adopted European legislation designed to cut packaging waste.
A Dutch food processing joint venture has been put on hold while authorities in the country investigate its potential effect on frozen snacks market competition.
Food producers are on heightened alert after the EC stepped up
measures taken to ensure aflatoxin-contaminated Chinese peanuts,
Iranian pistachios and Turkish figs, pistachios and hazelnuts do
not enter the European Union.