The “Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL) Paris 2022 will be held in Villepinte from Saturday 15 to Wednesday 19 October 2022.
The Natexpo 2022 show was a real success with more than 10,000 professional visitors and 1,800 exhibitors and brands present gathered for 3 days in Lyon. All the organic links were represented: from ingredients to distribution. Actors from all walks of life, French and international, took part in this benchmark event.
On September 19th 2022, the DGCCRF published the results of its survey on nutrition and health claims on food supplements performed on internet market places on 2020. The DGCCRF makes the following observation, “regulations on Nutrition and health claims that are still too often overlooked”.
Financed by the French State, with a total of 48.3 million euros for the cadre de France 2030, the Grand Défi «Ferments du Futur» was announced by webinaire Monday September 12, 2022. The project I piloted by INRAE and the ‘ANIA with the objective of mobilizing the natural techniques of fermentation in order to accelerate the agricultural and food revolution in the service of a healthy, durable and traceable food.
This unprecedented participatory science project, led by MetaGenoPolis/INRAE and the AP-HP, is part of a global dynamic and opens up promising prospects for the development of innovative health approaches. This ambitious project, estimated at €32 million over 5 years, is part of the One health concept and contributes to one of INRAE 2030’s strategic objectives of promoting a global approach to health.
The Council of State validated the request of an association against a decree which was to prohibit on October 1st names such as “steak” or “bacon” for products based on vegetable proteins.
On 10 June 2022, the EU Commission published a recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial. This recommendation clarifies the definition adopted by the European Commission in 2011 (Recommendation on the definition of a nanomaterial 2011/696/EU).
Alphitobius diaperinus larvae may soon be on our plates!
On 28 June 2022, a webinar information session was held to present the recently published EFSA “Statement on safety of cannabidiol as a novel food: data gaps and uncertainties” to stakeholders.
The decree of the Official Journal (OFJR) “Laws and Decrees” n° 0150 of June 30, 2022 will prohibit from October 1, 2022 “the terminology specific to the sectors traditionally associated with meat and fish to designate products not belonging to the animal Kingdom”. However, it allows the marketing of “foodstuffs manufactured or labeled” before this date (October 1) until December 31, 2023 at the latest.
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