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... food manufacturers and marketers who are “irked” by tight nutrition claim regulations are being offered practical steps to ensure they comply with the rules whilst remaining competitive ... com, has summarised the key nutrition claims regulations from the perspective of a food and beverage marketing manager, in an easy-to-use format, so they don’t stray from the regulations ... jo jordan, who headed the nutrition claims project, said that eu food regulation is strong and allows companies to market equally on a level playing field, over a large common market ... ” but she added: “the commonality of efsa (european food safety authority) works from spain to estonia - we all understand what these nutrition claims mean ... in europe, 29 nutrition claims such as ‘low fat’ and ‘fat-free’, are permitted in food advertisements, packaging and promotional messages and each claim has specific requirements that products must meet if they bear it ... the report states that marketing managers have three obligations: verify that a nutrition claim is on the approved list confirm with food scientists that the nutrition claims for the product have been met match products more closely to consumers’ expectations

... europe’s highly contentious new food labelling laws – set for implementation by year’s end – have received broad support from food industry groups, although major concerns over omissions and yet-to-be-resolved details remain ... food and drink europe (fde) welcomed the draft regulation, “after nearly three years of long, often difficult discussions” whilst highlighting disappointing omissions and unresolved aspects of the regulation ... ” “fibre is another such case in point - the voluntary declaration of fibre is also not foreseen compared to what is currently available for consumers on food and drink products

... the uk food industry has given the european parliament's (ep's) final agreement on food labelling a mixed reception, with one consultant reckoning label changes cost £7,000 per product ... passed by 606 votes to 46, the new food information regulation (fir) is expected to be published in the eu official journal in october ... food firms will have three years thereafter to adopt the new rules ... under existing eu rules, the origins of certain foods, including beef, honey and olive oil, already have to be shown on the label ... labels on packaged food across europe will have to give energy, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar, protein and salt levels in a tabular form, expressed on a per 100g or 100ml basis

... food industry and consumers to benefit from new eu food labelling rules, claims mep renate sommer as the eu parliament approved the regulation today ... labels will have to spell out a food's energy content as well as fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar, protein and salt levels, in a way that makes them easy for consumers to read ... "but is more than that: the food industry should benefit too ... the european snacks association (esa) said its now looks forward to working with the eu institutions as regards the implementation of the new labelling scheme and "sharing our expertise of meaningful portion sizes, which are the very basis of the gda scheme

... the current uk date labelling regime confuses food businesses, increases consumer risk by “diluting key food safety messages” , and costs industry millions of pounds a year ... report chairman harold gay said: “the present use by date labelling regime leads to confusion for food businesses, and increases risks for consumers by diluting key food safety messages ... " genuine safety risk the eu food labelling directive 2000/13 provides for a use by date, “in the case of foodstuffs which, from the microbiological point of view, are highly perishable and are therefore likely after a short period to constitute an immediate danger to human health” ... yet the uk food labelling regulations 1996 go further, making it a criminal offence to sell, or offer to sell, food after its use by date ... this is despite the fact that the eu directive does not require member states to impose such a prohibition ... given that other uk laws make it an offence to sell unsafe food, the report concludes that the 1996 offences are unnecessary and lead to overly cautious industry behaviour ... the report recommends that use by dates should only be used when food is “highly perishable” from a microbiological standpoint, and “likely after a short period to be an immediate danger to health” ... 3m tonnes of uk food waste per year needed to be cut, given its estimated £600m cost to industry ... gay said: “we feel that the waste of so much food every year presents an overwhelming moral cause to take action in its own right ... ” the report calls upon the government to partner industry in developing product-specific guidance on use by dates, to complement forthcoming revised guidance from the department for environment, food and rural affairs (defra) ... sarah appleby, head of enforcement at the food standards agency, said: “use by dates are an important way for consumers to ensure that their food is safe to eat ... the agency is working with defra, the lbro and the food industry to identify how we can help consumers understand date markings on food, and remove current confusion about sell by and display until dates

... the european food safety agency has agreed that certain fibres can improve cholesterol and that low sodium helps blood pressure in its latest verdicts on health claims made by food manufacturers ... the formal advice is among 536 formal opinions released today (30 june) as efsa nears the end of its marathon assessment of food health claims ... the eu's food watchdog said that specific dietary fibres can improve blood cholesterol levels, while cereal fibre boosts bowel function ... the european commission has the power to ban or allow claims under eu food health claims legislation and it usually accepts efsa's guidance ... its panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies also rejected claims for "too broad" food categories, such as fruits and vegetables and dairy products

... a final deal on eu food labelling legislation is heading towards the finish line with the provisional agreement approved by council yesterday ... a final deal on eu food labelling legislation is heading towards the finish line with the provisional agreement approved by council yesterday ... ” once the legislation is adopted and published, food businesses will have three years to adapt to the rules, then two more years to apply the rules on the nutritional declaration

... eu-wide food labelling regulations have moved a step closer to being adopted following a “breakthrough” in negotiations, according to european parliament rapporteur, renate sommer ... ” industry federation the ciaa had recently criticised mep’s desire for mandatory labelling of trans fats on food and beverage products as "a step too far'" the overall aim of the draft legislation is to modernize, simplify and clarify food labelling within the eu ... sommer said: “consumers will be provided with a great deal more food information than previously ... ” she added that red tape for small and medium-sized producers that account for 80 per cent of the food industry would be reduced ... non pre-packaged food and handcrafted food would also be subject to a lighter regime ... sommer said that everybody wants to avoid the conciliation procedure on food labelling as “not every conciliation leads to a good outcome” ... she highlighted the collapse of talks reviewing the 1997 eu novel foods regulation as an example ... “the consumer will get legible and understandable information on food products, while businesses will not be overburdened

... eu-wide food labelling regulations have moved a step closer to being adopted following a “breakthrough” in negotiations, according to european parliament rapporteur, renate sommer ... ” industry federation the ciaa had recently criticised mep’s desire for mandatory labelling of trans fats on food and beverage products as "a step too far'" the overall aim of the draft legislation is to modernize, simplify and clarify food labelling within the eu

... despite initiatives such as the rapid alert system for food & feed (rasff), the eu food chain is still vulnerable to malicious activity for the sake of profit or terrorist type activity, according to a leading food safety expert ... speaking at the 2011 institute of food technologists (ift) binstead lecture in london, shortly before the current e ... coli crisis broke, tony hines mbe from leatherhead food research (lfr) said that the rasff yielded a useful database regarding eu food safety issues ... the rasff provides environmental health officers, regulatory managers and enforcement authorities with a weekly digest that enabled them to identify transgressors within or without the union, and to ‘horizon scan’ where and when problems are likely to occur, as well as assess comparative data on eu border inspections ... spanish oil scandal hines welcomed such systems, but said the little-known toxic spanish cooking oil scandal from 1981, when 1,000 people lost their lives and thousands were seriously injured, was a “very good example of just how big an issue we can create with food, and shows just how vulnerable the food chain is” ... the sudan 1 crisis – in which the carcinogenic food dye was used illegally to colour chillies and paprika and boost their value – began in 2003, gaining momentum in 2005 ... however, hines said most people in the food industry “had their heads buried in the sand and hoped the issue would go away” , although he said that when he wrote the first product recall notice out in 2003 that he knew sudan i contamination would be a massive problem ... the most recent dioxin scandal concerned tainted industrial fatty oils in german feed, and hines said he watched news broadcasts where the german authorities insisted that the incident was under control and that they knew where the dioxins went in the food chain ... so who do consumers believe? widespread fear of food fraud prompted such actions, said hines, with the chinese melamine-tainted infant formula scandal still a recent memory