Category: Europe
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EFSA Releases Draft Opinion on Allergenic Food Ingredient Labeling
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a public consultation on a draft scientific opinion evaluating “allergenic foods and food ingredients for labeling purposes.” Prepared by EFSA’s Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA), the new draft updates previous scientific opinions “relative to food ingredients or substances with known allergenic potential listed in…
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EU Member States Criticize “Best Before” Dates
The Netherlands and Sweden have issued a discussion paper arguing that labeling food with “best before” dates results in unnecessary food waste and that European Union (EU) requirements should be adjusted to allow some foods to be sold without them. The paper, which Germany, Denmark, Austria, and Luxembourg also back, echoes a report published in…
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ASA Dismisses Complaint Against Cereal Ads Shown in Cinema
The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has dismissed a complaint alleging that a cereal advertisement shown at the beginning of a “U-rated” film “condoned or encouraged poor nutritional habits or an unhealthy lifestyle in children” and “disparaged good dietary practice.” Although Kellogg Marketing and Sales Company (UK) Ltd. included on-screen text stating the sugar content of…
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EFSA Issues Opinion on Bacillus Species in Animal Feed
The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP Panel) has issued an opinion on Bacillus species used in animal production as microbial feed additives or as the source of other feed additives, mainly enzymes. Noting that the main “concern for humans, and, to a lesser extent…
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EFSA Considers Reduction of Zinc in Animal Feed
The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) Panel on Additives and Products or Substances Used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP Panel) has proposed reducing the maximum amount of zinc permitted in animal feed “to ensure the health, welfare and productivity of the target species.” According to the FEEDAP Panel, which reviewed the available literature “as well as…
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EFSA Addresses Dietary Iodine
The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA Panel) has published a scientific opinion proposing new dietary reference values for iodine. After conducting a public consultation on a draft opinion issued in January 2014, the NDA Panel has established adequate intakes (AIs) for infants, children and adults based on…
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ASA Censures Alcohol Ads Paired with Child-Friendly YouTube Videos
The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint claiming that alcohol ads were shown during YouTube videos intended for children. According to the agency, a series of children’s nursery rhyme videos featured advertisements for liquors sold by Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC (Morrisons) even though both the company and YouTube took action “to prevent alcohol…
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ASA Dismisses Complaint Against Ad Linking Beer Consumption to Cancer
The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has reportedly dismissed a complaint about a controversial National Health Service advertisement showing a tumor growing in the bottom of a beer glass with the tag line “the more often you drink, the more you increase your risk of developing cancer.” Promoted by the alcohol awareness charity Balance and shown in…