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01 Jul 2021
Ethylene oxide in foods: still a long way to go in reaching coordination
In the past few months, organisations have revealed that non-compliant products containing ingredients illegally processed with ethylene oxide were still being sold without proper ...
Tags: Agriculture, ethylene oxide, European Commission, Food Safety
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29 Jun 2021
Provisional agreement reached on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
On June 25th, 2021, a deal was finally found between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU Council on the reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP...
Tags: Agriculture, Common Agricultural Policy, European Commission, european council, European Parliament, green deal, Pesticides
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24 Jun 2021
EC Vice-President Timmermans addresses the EU Climate Law in the European Parliament
On 24 June 2021, European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans gave a speech on the brand new Climate Law in the European Parliament. On this occasion, he praised t...
Tags: climate law, European Commission, European Parliament, Frans Timmermans, green deal
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16 Jun 2021
Renewal of approval of glyphosate in 2022 : The Assessment Group on Glyphosate releases its draft assessment
In May 2019, the European Commission appointed France, Hungary, The Netherlands and Sweden to act as rapporteur Member States for the next assessment on glyphosate. Glyp...
Tags: bees, biodiversity, Glyphosate, Pesticides
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31 May 2021
MEPs follow up on EFSA’s opinion regarding E171
On 31 May 2021, a group of 4 MEPs from 3 different groups asked the Commission about its intent to propose an EU-wide ban on food additive E171 (titanium dioxide). It is still uncl...
Tags: E171, EFSA, European Parliament, ScoPAFF, titanium dioxide
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06 May 2021
E171 no longer considered safe for use as a food additive
On 6 May 2021, The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published its long-awaited safety assessment of titanium dioxide (TiO2) used as a food additive (E171)[1]. The assessment c...
Tags: E171, EFSA, Scientific Opinion, titanium dioxide
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20 Apr 2021
CSOs call on EP Committees to support an ambitious F2F report
Today, SAFE together with 23 civil society organisation called on the ENVI and AGRI Committees of the European Parliament through a joint letter detailing 10 priorities to support ...
Tags: AGRI Committee, ENVI Committee, European Parliament, F2F strategy, Joint letter, NGOs
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News
19 Apr 2021
Bulgaria: Pesticide with EU-banned substance still widely used in Bulgarian agriculture
The investigative journalist Valia Ahchieva published a video showing a sad reality in Bulgaria: The Mocap, a plant protection product containing an ingredient banned by the EU is ...
Tags: Agriculture, Bulgaria, Pesticides
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18 Mar 2021
Greenpeace’s report on certification schemes criticised as attacks on palm oil
The recently published report “Destruction: Certified” by Greenpeace claims that many certification schemes, covering cocoa, coffee, biofuels, palm oil, soy, and wood, ...
Tags: certification, deforestation, Greenpeace, Palm oil
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18 Mar 2021
Italy: Debates arise after new environment minister’s remarks to reduce meat consumption
In one of his first public speeches, the Italian newly appointed environment minister, Roberto Cingolani, claimed that “the amount of animal protein consumed should be decrea...
Tags: Climate Change, Farm to Fork, Italy, Meat, Meat consumption, sustainability
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09 Mar 2021
Spain: Advertising contributes to rising childhood obesity, research shows
A recent study conducted by the Open University of Catalonia found that advertising of food targeting children is an important factor leading to the increase of childhood obesity r...
Tags: advertisment, childhood obesity, Marketing, Obesity, spain, unhealthy food
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News
22 Feb 2021
NGOs call on the Commission and Council to reject restrictions on the labelling of plant-based products
On 22 February 2021, 21 NGOs including SAFE called on the European Commission and the Council of the European Union to reject the 171th and 72th Amendment of the European Parliamen...
Tags: Dairy, European Commission, european council, Joint letter, NGOs, plant-based
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