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News
15 Dec 2016
Medical community alarmed by global rise in diabetes cases
The rise of diabetes is causing avoidable deaths and imposing substantial costs on ailing healthcare systems. Alarmed, lawmakers are attempting to improve prevention and get the em...
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12 Dec 2016
‘TTIP may come back from the dead,’ warns expert
Opposition to the EU’s transatlantic trade deals is alive and well. According to activists, TTIP is far from dead and CETA can still be stopped. The Transatlantic Trade and Inves...
Tags: Agriculture, GMO, Hormone, TTIP
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22 Nov 2016
NGOs: Commission’s acrylamide regulation has ‘wrong’ legal basis
Food and consumer organisations claim that the European Commission’s draft regulation on acrylamide is based on a wrong regulation and this has a direct effect on the lack of max...
Tags: Acrylamide, Consumers, European Commission
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News - Uncategorized
11 Nov 2016
Acrylamide proposals strengthened in new draft
The European Commission has moved to strengthen proposed new regulations on acrylamide, but the amendments are unlikely to be enough to appease campaigners. Read the full article ...
Tags: Acrylamide, European Commission
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10 Nov 2016
Slow Food address EU Commissioner over meat promotion
Following the recent declarations of Phil Hogan, European Agriculture Commissioner, announcing his plan to allocate 15 million dollars a year to promote meat consumption in Europe,...
Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Consumers, European Commission, Meat
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21 Oct 2016
Health risks of materials in contact with food: tighter EU safety rules needed
EU-wide safety rules are needed for more materials in contact with food, such as those used in packaging, kitchen utensils and tableware, say MEPs in a non-binding resolution voted...
Tags: Consumers, European Parliament, Food Packaging, Food Safety, MEP
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News - Uncategorized
14 Oct 2016
Bisphenol A: new immune system evidence useful but limited
New data confirm EFSA’s previous conclusion that bisphenol A (BPA) might affect the immune system in animals, but the evidence is too limited to draw any conclusions for human he...
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29 Sep 2016
Politico: Food activists attack new EU rules on cancer-causing chemical
Newly proposed EU rules on an obscure carcinogen found in everything from chips to coffee have sparked a battle between health campaigners and lobbyists representing companies such...
Tags: Acrylamide, EFSA, European Commission
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News
16 Sep 2016
Open Letter to Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis and First Vice-President Frans Timmermans on the Commission Draft Regulation on the application of codes of good practice to reduce the presence of acrylamide in food
SAFE- safe food advocacy Europe, CEO – Corporate Europe Observatory and WeMove.EU welcome the much-needed initiative of DG SANTE to adopt measures to reduce the levels of acr...
Tags: Acrylamide, European Commission
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News
14 Sep 2016
Endocrine disruptors: science is more potent than politics
A large group of scientists from across various sectors are supporting an appeal to the European Commission regarding its proposed regulation to establish criteria for identifying ...
Tags: Endocrine disruptors
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News
06 Sep 2016
Paris to tackle obesity with junk food tax
France is raising the tax on all high calorie foods in an attempt to tackle its increasing weight problem. According to the ObEpi-Roche 2012 survey, 32.3% of French citizens are ov...
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News
12 Jul 2016
UNEP: Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production
“What do I do first?” It is a simple question, but for decision-makers trying to determine how they can make a meaningful contribution to sustainable consumption and production...
Tags: Consumers, Environment, UNEP
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