On Tuesday, May 31 the NatExpo team organized a webinar-debate on nutrition labeling and environmental labelling schemes. The five speakers were: Florence Roublot (Natexpo), Emmanuel Fournet (NielsenIQ) as moderator, Sabine Bonnot (Institut de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation biologiques – ITAB, Institute of Organic Agriculture and Food), Sybile Chapron (Nature et Aliments), and Vincent Colomb (Agence de la transition écologique – ADEME, Agency of Ecological Transition).
The EFSA published on May 2022 an article related to the project “Microbiota analysis for risk assessment: evaluation of hazardous dietary substances and its potential role on the gut microbiome variability and dysbiosis in a special issue dedicated to the European Food Risk assessment (EU-FOR A) program.
The conference was held on April 26th and 27th, and hosted a series of high caliber speakers
You may see a claim followed by an asterisk on a herbal food supplement marketed in the Netherlands. These food supplements are composed of one or more plant(s) or plant extract(s) claiming effects on health. In accordance with European regulations on nutritional and health claims, only scientifically substantiated claims are permitted.
The Commission resumed works to define maximum and minimum doses of vitamins and minerals in fortified food and food supplements.
Over the course of 2021, the EU authorized a number of edible insects as Novel Foods. What is the post-Brexit situation in the UK?
On January 1, 2022, the new Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 30, 2018 on organic production and the labeling of organic products came into force. It repeals the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 and its implementing regulations, which remained in force until December 31, 2020.
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA) was asked to deliver an opinion on the safety of Schizochytrium sp. oil as a Novel Food (NF) pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.
On 25 January, 2022 the EFSA organized a webinar to introduce new services, processes for the health claim procedure following the implementation of the EU’s Transparency Regulation (2019/1381) (TR).
On January 14, 2022, the European Commission published a Regulation amending Annexes II (Union list of food additives approved for use in foods) and III (Union list of food additives approved for use in food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings, nutrients) of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the food additive titanium dioxide (E171).
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