Thousands of consumers surveyed across four European Union countries have said they want country of origin labelling on more foods. An average of 70% of consumers surveyed in France, Austria, Poland and Sweden believe country of origin ...
Tags: foods, origin labelling, food packaging
EC vice-president and leader of the digital agenda Neelie Kroes says website owners still need to obtain consent to use cookies,even if web users have browsers that offer'do not track'(DNT). Kroes,who is seeking a way for web users to opt ...
Tags: Cookie Law, obtain consent, use cookies
Misleading statements and fiction about toy safety are often communicated to the general public. The public must have access to the facts, so that they can make informed decisions about purchasing safe toys for their children. We want to ...
Tags: Toys, Toy Safety, Misleading statements, fiction
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King today (9 October) called on the UK food industry to adopt common front-of-pack nutrition labels. King said the sector should "put aside their differences" and introduce "universal" labelling. ...
Tags: Sainsbury, Justin King, food industry, nutrition label
Proposals for new rules allowing milk farmers in England to join forces on talks with buyers have been set out today (11 December). The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is consulting on legislation that would give ...
Tags: new rules, milk, milk farmer, food industry
Nestle and General Mills have said they will cut the amount of sugar in 20 breakfast cereal products by up to 30%. Cereal Partners Worldwide, the companies' venture to sell products outside North America, said it would lower the sugar ...
Tags: Nestle, sugar, cereal products, cereals
Food manufacturers including Nestle, Mondelez International and Unilever have announced plans to "harmonise" the way they label the nutritional information for products sold in the EU. Twelve companies, which also include Kellogg, Mars ...
Tags: Food sign, Food, Food manufacturers, food labelling
Food manufacturers including Nestle, Mondelez International and Unilever have announced plans to "harmonise" the way they label the nutritional information for products sold in the EU. Twelve companies, which also include Kellogg, Mars ...
Concern over the impact higher pig prices could have on UK meat processor Cranswick sent the company's shares falling today (8 October). Cranswick, which reported a 6% increase in first-half sales, said the increasing cost of animal feed ...
Tags: Pig Prices, Cranswick Shares, meat processor
The French Agency for Food Health Safety (ANSES) has called on the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to classify BPA as a more severe category 1 reprotoxic substance under the EU rules on the classification, labeling and packaging (CLP) of ...
Tags: BPA's classification, Chemicals, BPA
New European Union Timber Regulation coming into force from 3rd March 2013 will affect all British Retailers. It means that from this date it will be an offence to sell products that contain timber that has been harvested illegally within ...
Tags: policy&standard, timber, Regulation
The Indonesia Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the country’s certification system on timber would comply with a new regulation to be imposed by the European Union next year. The certification system would enable the ...
Tags: market view, Indonesian Timber, EU Rules