Report concludes that EU action is needed to set legal limits on trans fats in food

On 3 December, the European Commission adopted a report on trans fats (TFA) in food and in the overall diet of Europeans.

72% want information on stunning of animals when buying meat, says EU-wide study

The British Veterinary Association has called today on the European Commission to back proposals to introduce labelling of non-stun slaughtered meat after a study of 13,500 meat consumers across 27…

What’s not on the bottle? Public health organisations call on the European Commission to label alcoholic drinks

On the 10th September in the European Parliament (Brussels) public health experts will be calling the European Commission to make changes to alcohol labelling legislation and allow consumers to…

Study maps EU school food policies for the first time

As part of the European Commission’s efforts to help reduce childhood obesity, the Commission’s in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), has published the first comprehensive…

JRC Develops New Testing Methods For Contaminated Sports Drinks From Taiwan

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has developed three new methods to detect an illegal clouding agent which can be found in sports drinks imported from Taiwan. In late May, the Taiwanese authorities informed the European Commission that significant amounts of phthalates were illegally added to certain categories of sports drinks…