Food Law News - 2024
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- INT: 13 June 2024 CODEX / ADDITIVES - Codex goes for true blue
- EU: 13 June 2024 COMPOSITION - Clearer rules on origin and composition of honey: Commission sets up Honey Platform
- EU: 12 June 2024 FOOD CONTACT MATERIALS - Member States endorse ban of Bisphenol A in food contact materials
- INT: 8 June 2024 CODEX / PESTICIDES - CCPR / Meeting concludes “Another successful gathering of the experts on pesticides”
- EU: 6 June 2024 LABELLING - Country of Origin Labelling for foodstuffs - Information from the German and Austrian delegations, supported by the Estonian, Finnish, French and Portuguese delegations
- EU: 4 June 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission consultation: methods of analysis for official checks as laid down in Commission Regulation No 2073/2005
- UK: 3 June 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS / IMPORTS - Letter to importers regarding foods that do not conform with UK food legislation
- INT: 3 June 2024 CODEX / CONTAMINANTS / PESTICIDES - CCPR55 / A productive and efficient committee with sense of warm collaboration and mutual respect
- EU: 31 May 2024 OLIVE OIL - Commission consultation: Olive oil marketing standards – revision of conformity checks
- INT: 28 May 2024 WTO / FOOD FRAUD - New WTO publication highlights strategies to tackle illicit trade in food and food fraud
- INT: 27 May 2024 CODEX / EUROPE - CCEURO33/ Germany hosts the Committee for the first time
- UK: 24 May 2024 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES - Over Two Thirds of UK Beer and Wine Servings are Short Measures
- INT: 20 May 2024 CODEX / OFFICIAL CONTROLS / ANALYSIS - CCMAS43/ Report adoption goes well with recipes for soup and success
- INT: 14 May 2024 CODEX / OFFICIAL CONTROLS / ANALYSIS - CCMAS43/ A meeting of professionals who think together
- UK: 14 May 2024 BREXIT - Revocation and amendment of food and drink assimilated laws
- EU: 3 May 2024 HYGIENE / SAFETY - Commission consultation – updated rules for imports of used cooking oil
- UK: 30 April 2024 BREXIT / OFFICIAL CONTROLS - CIEH acknowledges implementation of next phase of Border Target Operating Model
- EU: 29 April 2024 COMPOSITIONAL STANDARDS - Council Adoption: Directive amending various ‘breakfast directives’
- INT: 26 April 2024 CODEX / ADDITIVES - CCFA54/ Report adopted with agreements on alignment and 350 food additive provisions
- EU: 24 April 2024 ADDITIVES / FLAVOURINGS - Member States endorse withdrawal of smoke flavourings from EU market
- INT: 22 April 2024 CODEX / ADDITIVES - CCFA54/ “We are here to find a solution to important questions”
- INT: 19 April 2024 CODEX / CONTAMINANTS - CCCF17 concludes: “We are doing the right things in the best possible ways”
- UK: 16 April 2024 WINE - DEFRA Consultation - Wine: third phase of reforms to assimilated EU law
- INT: 15 April 2024 CODEX / CONTAMINANTS - CCCF17/ President of Panama gives opening speech for contaminants meeting
- EU: 10 April 2024 COMPOSITIONAL STANDARDS - Breakfast foods: Parliament adopts new rules to improve consumer information
- EU: 10 April 2024 NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES (NGTs) - Council discussions: The importance of providing the agrifood sector with new plant breeding strategies, based on genome editing techniques, to strengthen its sustainability, resilience and profitability
- EU: 10 April 2024 QUALITY SCHEMES - Regulation on geographical indications and quality schemes: Adoption of the legislative act
- EU: 10 April 2024 FOOD HYGIENE - Commission consultation: Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods – update of safety criteria
- UK: 3 April 2024 REGULATED PRODUCTS – FSA Consultation launched on proposed reforms to the regulated products authorisation process
- INT: 22 March 2024 SPS MEASURES - WTO Members make progress with SPS Agreement Sixth Review, discuss trade concerns
- UK: 22 March 2024 ADMINISTRATION - Highlights from March 2024 FSA Board Meeting: Discussions on regulated products reform and foodborne disease policy
- EU: 20 March 2024 COMPOSITIONAL STANDARDS - Breakfast Directives - European Parliament Vote on the outcome of the interinstitutional negotiations
- UK: 18 March 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS / MEAT HYGIENE - FSA successfully prosecutes abattoir for serious breaches of food safety
- INT: 15 March 2024 CODEX / HYGIENE - Report of the 54th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene
- INT: 15 March 2024 CODEX / HYGIENE - CCFH54/ Meeting concludes in Nairobi with agreements on revisions, guidelines and new work
- UK: 14 March 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS / IMPORTED FOODS - Amendments to assimilated Regulation 2019/1793: Official Controls Applied to Imported High Risk Food and Feed not of Animal Origin
- UK: 13 March 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS / MEAT HYGIENE - FSA and FSS call for immediate action to address vet workforce challenges
- EU: 13 March 2024 CONTACT MATERIALS - Commission consultation: plastic food contact materials (FCMs) (update to quality control rules)
- UK: 12 March 2024 LABELLING - Consultation launched to make food labelling fairer and clearer
- INT: 11 March 2024 CODEX / HYEIENE - CCFH54/ A “meeting of two firsts” opens food hygiene discussions in Kenya
- EU: 11 March 2024 SUSTAINABILITY - Commission publishes transition pathway for a green, digital and resilient EU agri-food industrial ecosystem
- UK: 7 March 2024 PRECISON BRED ORGANISMS (PBOs) - Summary of stakeholder responses: Consultation on proposals for a new framework in England for the regulation of precision bred organisms used for food and animal feed
- EU: 29 February 2024 FRAUD - Agri-Food fraud: Commission publishes its first monthly report
- EU: 28 February 2024 QUALITY SCHEMES - MEPs improve EU protection for quality agricultural products
- UK: 28 February 2024 MEAT HYGIENE - FSA launches consultation on Mechanically Separated Meat guidance
- UK: 27 February 2024 SCOTLAND / HEALTHY EATING - Improving the nation's diet: Move to restrict promotions on unhealthy food and drink
- INT: 23 February 2024 CODEX / FATS AND OILS- Report of the 28th Session of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils
- INT: 23 February 2024 CODEX / FATS AND OILS - CCFO28/ “One of the most fruitful sessions of CCFO” concludes in Kuala Lumpur
- EU: 23 February 2024 SUSTAINABILITY / GREEN CLAIMS: FDE Joint statement: Enable the green transition with a harmonised, reliable and workable framework for green claims
- EU: 22 February 2024 PESTICIDES - Amendment of the Annex relating to the food commodities to which MRLs apply
- INT: 19 February 2024 CODEX / FATS AND OILS - CCFO28 convenes in Malaysia to progress current work and consider future plans
- EU: 13 February 2024 TRADE / SPS MEASURES - 2023 Activity Report of the EU WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point
- EU: 9 February 2024 CONTACT MATERIALS - Commission consultation: Commission launches 4-week feedback period on ban of BPA in food contact materials
- UK: 8 February 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS / ADMINISTRATION - Letter to local authority Chief Executives regarding budget setting for statutory food & feed services
- EU: 7 February 2024 NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES (NGTs) - New Genomic Techniques: MEPs back rules to support green transition of farmers
- UK: 7 February 2024 ENFORCEMENT - FSA prosecutes production manager who obstructed an NFCU officer
- UK: 6 February 2024 CLAIMS - Government response to the consultation on proposed legislative reforms in relation to nutrition and health claims on food
- UK: 5 February 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS / FRAUD - FSA welcomes custodial sentence in food crime case
- INT: 2 February 2024 HERBS AND SPICES / CODEX - Report of the 7th Session of the Codex Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs
- INT: 2 February 2024 HERBS AND SPICES / CODEX - CCSCH7 concludes first Codex meeting of the year and forwards three new standards for adoption
- UK: 2 February 2024 LABELLING / BREXIT - Consultation: 'Not for EU’ labelling for retail products across Great Britain
- UK: 2 February 2024 REGULATED PRODUCTS - Consultation on applications for authorisation of miscellaneous regulated products: four novel foods, three food additives, removal of twenty-two food flavouring authorisations, and a proposal to set a limit for ethylene oxide in food additives
- EU: 31 January 2024 COMPOSITIONAL STANDARDS - European Parliament: Honey labelling: deal with Council on measures to combat fraud
- EU: 31 January 2024 COMPOSITIONAL STANDARDS - Commission welcomes political agreement on clearer labelling and improved composition of honey, fruit juices, jams and milk
- UK: 31 January 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - CIEH reissues calls for enhanced role of Environmental Health Professionals as new post-Brexit border checks take effect
- UK: 31 January 2024 PESTICIDES / RESIDUES - GB MRL amendments (adopted December 2023)
- INT: 29 January 2024 NUTRITION - WHO awards countries for progress in eliminating industrially produced trans fats for first time
- INT: 29 January 2024 HERBS AND SPICES / CODEX - CCSCH7 underway / Experts meet to discuss spice and culinary herbs in India
- UK: 26 January 2024 TRADE - UK–Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations suspended
- EU: 26 January 2024 GM FOODS - Commission authorises and renews GMOs for food and animal feed
- UK: 25 January 2024 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - UK food safety at risk due to lack of staff: One in seven food safety positions are vacant in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- EU: 24 January 2024 NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES (NGTs) - MEPs want to ban all patents for NGT plants
- EU: 23 January 2024 NOVEL FOODS – High-quality and primary farm-based food production: Council discussions on lab-grown meat
- UK: 17 January 2024 FORTIFICATION - Consultation outcome: Amending The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 and The Bread and Flour (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1998
- EU: 12 January 2024 LABELLING - FoodDrinkEurope Position: Digital Labelling
- UK: 9 January 2024 EGGS / LABELLING - Proposed changes to egg labelling rules support British industry
- EU: 5 January 2024 CONTANIMENTS - Commission consultation: Setting and reviewing maximum levels for certain undesirable substances in feed
- UK: 2 January 2024 NOVEL FOODS - The end of transitional arrangements for edible insects in Great Britain
This page was first established by David Jukes on 14 February 2024.