Food section - News
Official Controls:
European Commission publishes its Health and food audits and analysis work programme for 2024
Official Controls:
Do you know how Member States fight fraud along the agri-food chain? A new Commission report gives you an insight.
Food additives:
Commission sets new reduced limits for nitrites and nitrates as food additives.
News from the EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub - September 2023
Welcome to the September edition of the Hub’s newsletter, bringing you the latest news and resources in food loss and waste prevention. This month, we have a special focus on consumer food waste:
Food Sustainability:
Eurostat publishes second round of EU-wide food waste monitoring (2021)
News from the EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub Special edition - International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 2023
This year the international day makes a clear call to for public and private entities to take action to reduce food loss and waste to support the transformation of agrifood systems and contribute to the achievement of the 2030 agenda.
Health and Food safety:
DG SANTE launches new LinkedIn Page
News from the EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub - August 2023
This newsletter brings you the latest news and resources from July and August, which show that work to prevent and reduce food losses and waste has not stopped during the summer season.
Food additives: EC publishes call for data on celluloses
EC published a call to give the opportunity to business operators to submit the technical data needed to address issues identified by EFSA in the re-evaluation of the safety of celluloses (E 460(i), E 460(ii), E 461, E 462, E 463, E 464, E 465, E 468 and E 469) as food additives
Food Safety:
European Commission announces lifting of the Fukushima restrictions on food imports