thrombin as an additive to bind together meat morsels into one piece.
In a vote yesterday, MEPs stated that use of the ‘meat glue’ creates reconstituted meat products that “carry an unacceptably high risk of misleading consumers”.
on a proposal to scrap nutrient profiling before mid-June, FoodNavigator.com has learned. A draft report suggesting that the controversial food measurement be binned was approved by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) sitting on the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee in March, with a first plenary vote expected at the end of this month.
The Directorate General for Health and Consumers held a Roundtable on the Revision of Meat Inspection. The meeting is a first exchange of views with all relevant parties (Member States, private stakeholders, third countries, CODEX Alimentarius) on the future of meat inspection and will be followed by additional working group meetings.
On the 22nd of February the Agriculture and Fisheries Council agreed that consumers need more information to make purchasing decisions based on animal welfare.
Speaking after the meeting COPA President Padraig Walshe insisted “I welcome Mr Cioloş decision to come and speak to us today so soon after he was appointed as Commissioner. I am also pleased that he wants to maintain a robust CAP-post 2013, with direct aid payments to farmers, coupled with a sufficiently large budget.
The outgoing European Union commissioner for agriculture and rural development bid farewell to farm policy yesterday.
Mariann Fischer Boel said it’s not without a certain amount of melancholy that she now leaves Brussels.
"But at the same time, I also feel immensely proud of all the things we have achieved together," she wrote in her blog.
Ms Fischer Boel recalled that when she turned up in Brussels in November 2004, she really had to put her foot flat on the gas straight away.
Back in 2001, the EU committed to halt biodiversity loss by 2010. This objective has yet to be achieved. This failure is all the more scathing as this very year has been declared the ‘International Year of Biodiversity’ by the United Nations. The year’s crowning event will be a special session of the United Nations General Assembly dedicated to this topic, in September in New York, and the revision of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Biosecurity Protocol, known as the ‘Cartagena Protocol’, during the conference of the parties, to be held in Nagayo (Japan) in November.
The European Commission has today announced the winner of its contest to design a new logo to appear on all organic food and beverage products in the European Union: a leaf-shaped design from Germany that attracted 63 per cent of the votes.
The Commission turned to design students to come up with the new logo after the initial insignia was withdrawn for resembling too closely the logo of a supermarket chain. The three shortlisted entries were scrutinised closely to ensure there were no infringements, and some 130,000 people voted online for their favourite.
