Food Law News - EU - 2014

Council Press Release, 28 January 2014

ADDITIVES - Council discussions: Food additives

The following is an extract from the Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting:

The Council decided not to oppose adoption by the Commission of the following two regulations:

• a regulation amending annex II to regulation 1333/2008 on the use of polyvinylpyrrolidone-vinyl acetate copolymer as a glazing agent in solid food supplements and assigning to it E 1208 as E-number (17256/13);
• a regulation amending annex II to regulation 1333/2008 on the use of magnesium dihydrogen diphosphate (E 450 (ix)) as a raising agent and acidity regulator in certain food categories (17261/13).

The regulations are subject to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny. The Commission may now adopt them, unless the European Parliament objects.