http://www.eubusiness.com <p><strong>Latest business news about Food Safety and Food Policy in the European Union.</strong></p><p>The EU integrated approach to food safety aims to assure a high level of food safety, animal health, animal welfare and plant health within the EU through coherent farm-to-table measures and adequate monitoring, while ensuring the effective functioning of the internal market. The implementation of this approach involves the development of legislative and other actions: (1)To assure effective control systems and evaluate compliance with EU standards in the food safety and quality, animal health, animal welfare, animal nutrition and plant health sectors within the EU and in third countries in relation to their exports to the EU; (2) To manage international relations with third countries and international organisations concerning food safety, animal health, animal welfare, animal nutrition and plant health; (3) To manage relations with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and ensure science-based risk management.</p><p><strong>FACT SHEETS</strong></p><p><strong>Food Safety</strong></p> <ul><li><a href="general-food-law">General Food Law</a></li><li><a href="labelling-food">Food and Feed Labelling</a></li><li><a href="novel-food">Novel food</a></li></ul><p><strong>Food Trade and Imports</strong></p><ul><li><a href="personal-imports">Trade and Imports of Animal Products - personal consignments</a></li><li><a href="harmful-organisms">Plant health: Harmful organisms </a></li></ul><p><strong><a href="contacts">EU DG Health and Consumers Contacts</a></strong></p> <hr /> <h2>LATEST NEWS</h2> daily 1 2007-01-02T13:22:44Z http://www.eubusiness.com/topics/food/organic-wine New EU rules for “organic wine” have been agreed in the Standing Committee on Organic Farming (SCOF), and will be published in the Official Journal in the coming weeks. With the new regulation, which will apply from the 2012 harvest, organic wine growers will be allowed to use the term “organic wine” on their labels. The labels must also show the EU-organic-logo and the code number of their certifier, and must respect other wine labelling rules. Although there are already rules for “wine made from organic grapes”, these do not cover wine-making practices, i.e. the whole process from grape to wine. Wine is the one remaining sector not fully covered by the EU rules on organic farming standards under Regulation 834/2007. No publisher eub2 Food & Drink Agriculture 2012-02-08T21:55:58Z Guide http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/patent-court-food.es7 A Polish drinks company was given a giant let-down Wednesday when top European judges ruled they were cheating in trying to trademark a drink named Viaguara" -- too close for their taste to the sex drug Viagra. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2012 AFP. All other Copyright 2012 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. patent court Pfizer company drink food Viagra Headline2 2012-01-25T13:30:06Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/sahel-aid-food.emk The EU said Wednesday it is doubling humanitarian aid to Africa's Sahel area to 95 million euros in a "race against time" to lift two million people facing food shortages out of danger. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2012 AFP. All other Copyright 2012 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. food aid Sahel 2012-01-18T20:53:48Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/poland-lifestyle.em3 Long reputed to be among Europe's most avid consumers of pork chops and sausage, it turns out Poles eat by far the most fruit and vegetables in a new study of 19 mostly northern European states. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2012 AFP. All other Copyright 2012 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Poland lifestyle food vegetables fruit 2012-01-18T12:22:02Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/biotech-food-farm.e7c Failure by EU agriculture ministers to decide on authorisation for three genetically-modified maize and cotton strains overnight left the matter in the hands of the EU executive on Friday. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP. All other Copyright 2011 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. biotech farm environment food Headline1 2011-12-16T14:59:21Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/topics/food/health-claims This European Union Register of nutrition and health claims made on foods (“the Register”) has been established as foreseen in Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 and is updated regularly. Some sections of this Register are missing and will be completed, as appropriate, following the procedures detailed in the Regulation and depending on the applications for authorisation of health claims. No publisher eub2 Food & Drink Health 2011-12-07T22:16:04Z Link http://www.eubusiness.com/topics/health/heath-claims In a meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, EU Member States supported the European Commission's draft Regulation to adopt a list of permitted health claims for use on food. No publisher eub2 Food & Drink Health 2011-12-07T22:49:21Z Guide http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/italy-environment.dwq Fake organic products from Italy have been sold around Europe, Italian police said on Tuesday as they announced the results of an inquiry that has led to seven arrests and the seizure of 2,500 tons of food. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP. All other Copyright 2011 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Italy farm crime environment food 2011-12-06T19:05:05Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/topics/food/supply-forum The European Commission set up a High Level Forum for a Better Functioning Food Supply Chain composed mainly of representatives of selected Member States, of European companies dealing with food production, processing or distribution, of professional associations and of non-governmental organisations representing the citizens' expectations. Vice-President Tajani is leading this exercise together with his fellow Commissioners in charge of Internal Market and Services, Health and Consumer Protection and Agriculture and Rural development. No publisher eub2 Food & Drink 2011-11-30T15:45:55Z Link http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/environment-species.dm8 Stepping in to save endangered sharks, the Commission called Monday for a full ban on shark finning at sea, the practice of slicing off the fins and throwing the body overboard to drown. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP. All other Copyright 2011 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. shark food Environment Headline2 species 2011-11-22T09:45:39Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/netherlands-retail.dm1 Dutch retail giant Ahold announced on Monday a 350-million-euro cost savings plan as part of a six-pillar strategy including a boost for online sales and a dividend increase. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP. All other Copyright 2011 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. Netherlands food company Ahold earnings retail structure 2011-11-21T11:33:23Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/sahel-food-aid.dl3 The EU said Friday it is increasing immediately food aid for Africa's Sahel region in an urgent bid to save the lives of half a million people facing shortages. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP. All other Copyright 2011 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. food aid Sahel 2011-11-18T21:31:06Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/china-biotech-food.diq The European Union has tightened controls on imports of Chinese rice products after a growing number of shipments were contaminated by unauthorised genetically-modified rice, the EU said on Tuesday. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP. All other Copyright 2011 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. biotech food environment China Headline2 2011-11-15T17:18:16Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/health-food-stevia.di9 Brussels gave its green light Monday to the use of the age-old natural South American sweetener, stevia, in foods and drinks across the European Union. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP. All other Copyright 2011 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. food stevia Health 2011-11-14T18:53:02Z News Item http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/poverty-food-aid.di6 Europe's poorest citizens secured two more years of food aid on Monday -- but still face seeing a free-meals scheme collapse by the end of 2013. No publisher eub2 Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP. All other Copyright 2011 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable. development farm food poverty aid Council of Ministers 2011-11-14T19:01:49Z News Item