The European Commission this week gave the go ahead to private
equity fund EQT for the acquisition of two dominant German-based
flavour and fragrances manufacturers, Haarmann & Reimer and
Dragoco. The combined company will have...
The creation of a new European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is a
major component of the legal and organisational reforms to tackle
food safety in Europe. When the Council of Ministers recently
announced the composition of the new...
Is the collective European tastebud becoming more refined?
According to a new report from market research company Datamonitor,
this is indeed the case. Speciality foods are flourishing across
Europe as consumers become increasingly...
The European Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health
voted in favour of a European Commission proposal changing the
rules for the dispatch from the United Kingdom of bovine products
under the Date-Based Export Scheme...
The European Commission has approved legislation allowing the use
of two intense sweeteners, sucralose and aspartame-acesulfame,
within the European Union. Both are already sold outside the
region.
The European Commission on Wednesday approved a radical reform of
Europe's 40-year-old Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that aims to
shift the focus of aid from production to the farmers themselves.
The European Parliament this week showed strong support for the
first reading of the Commission's proposal for an amendment to the
food labelling Directive (2000/13/EC OJ L 109, 6.5.200 (1)), and
proposed additional amendments...
The European Commission has told Spain it must change its rules on
organic food labelling in order to ensure that all products
labelled Bio are organic.
Two European Commissioners, representatives from farmers, retailers
and consumers together with CEO's from large European food
companies will participate in the upcoming Sommet Alimentaire
Europeen (European Food Summit) that...
Environmental groups Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (FoE),
together with the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), recently
urged EU governments and the European Commission to safeguard
European agriculture and biodiversity by...
The European Commission this week applauded a series of measures by
Thailand aimed at overcoming recent discoveries of harmful
antibiotics in Thai shrimp and chicken exported to the EU, an AFX
news story reports.
The European Commission has presented a proposal to improve
protection for geographical indications and designations of origin
for a variety of agricultural products and foodstuffs, to include
Prosciutto di Parma, Roquefort cheese...
The European Commission, within its Fifth Framework Programme and
linked to the Fair-Flow 4 project, has funded a 3-year project
entitled "Virus Safe Seafood", with the overall objective to
provide useful and rapid tools...
The European Commission has today authorised Austria to pay income
aid worth a total of some € 8.94 million to beef farmers who have
suffered losses between January and June 2001 because of the
consequences of the BSE crisis.
The European Commission wants to see greater progress in frontier
technologies, particularly life sciences and biotechnology, and has
set out a clear strategy to achieve this aim.
The European Commission said on Wednesday it had extended its
review of U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill's planned purchase of a
unit of Italy's agro-energy conglomerate Montedison
Britain's trade ministry asked the European Commission last week to
allow it to study the impact of Cargill Inc's proposed acquisition
of French starch maker Cerestar , because of UK competition
worries.
The incapacity of European leaders at the Laeken summit this
weekend to make a decision on the location of the new European Food
Safety Authority (EFSA) means that the new food safety edifice
will, for the moment, be based in Brussels.
EU leaders, after hours of wrangling, were cited as failing to take
a decision on Saturday at their year-end summit on where to locate
a host of new EU agencies, including the European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA).
All commonly used processes in the bovine bone gelatin
manufacturing process that have the potential to remove and/or
inactivate BSE pathogens, are totally effective, according to the
results of a recent TSE validation study.
The Europeans new edifice to food safety and stronger principles
for EU food law moved closer to existence this week when, at a
second reading, the European Parliament (EP) established a clearer
position.
The European Commission said on Wednesday it had fined five
companies a total of 135 million euros ($120.5 million) for
participating in a price-fixing and market-sharing cartel in citric
acid.
The European Union's meat processing liaison group, Clitravi, has
called on the European Commission for more support to boost the
industry following foot...
The European Commission agreed on Wednesday to permit the marketing
of Canadian "Icewine", a specialised dessert wine made from grapes
frozen on the vine...
