POSTS BY : Daniele Pisanello
COOL FOR FOOD: AT THE THRESHOLD OF AN EU REVOLUTION?
Good news for foods that pride in their origin: the European Commission has launched a public consultation (which will close on February 1) on the introduction of mandatory indication of the [...]
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NUEVOS ALIMENTOS: LA REFORMA EUROPEA AL ESTRENO
A partir del 31 Diciembre 2017 se inaugura el marco legal UE dedicado a los nuevos alimentos, establecido en el Reglamento (UE) 2015/2283 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, del 25 de [...]
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EU COURT CLARIFIES LIMITS IN BANNING FOODSTUFFS
Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber), 19th January 2017, in case C-282/15(Queisser Pharma GmbH & Co. KG v Bundesrepublik Deutschland) In its request for a preliminary ruling, a German national court asks whether the [...]
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MAY A GHEWING GUM HAVE AS MANY BENEFICIAL AS ORDINARY DENTAL CARE?
Unsurprisingly, the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio confirmed the legitimacy of a decision of the Italian Competition Authority (hereinafter ‘ICA’; ‘Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato” – or ‘AGCM’ [...]
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KENYA SHEDS LIGHT ON INSECTS’ POTENTIAL USE AS FEED
Kenya has recently announced the adoption of a new regulatory framework for insect feed, introducing new requirements for dried-insect products used as source of protein for compounding animal feedstuffs. Such standards [...]
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LABELLING OF FOOD BEING PART OF A MEAL: EU COURT SETS THE (NEW) SCENE
One of the latest case-law of the EU Court of Justice deals with the labelling requirements of foodstuff (honey) when sold to the ultimate consumer by a mass caterer as [...]
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PHARMACOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN FOODS: COMMISSION PAVES THE WAY FOR SETTING MRLS
EU Commission finally has come out with Regulation (EU) No 2017/17, a new implementing measure setting the form and the content of the applications for the establishment of maximum residue [...]
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ITALY PUTS ITS COOL REGULATION FOR DAIRIES ON THE WAY
After a long wait, Italian Decree on mandatory indication of the origin of the raw material (milk) for milk and diaries (e.g. milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, curd) has finally been [...]
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