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Environment committee votes against allowing ‘now contains X% less' claims on food packaging. The European Parliament's environment committee today (31 January) rejected a...

Decisions on health claims for food products are proving difficult to stomach for many in the industry. From milkshakes that help you lose weight to fizzy drinks that keep...

There needs to be an EU-wide system of food labelling, but the European Commission's attempt at setting it up misses the target on many levels. Consumers have the right to...

The Commission still has a lot on its plate trying to establish which foods can be described as healthy. When is a doughnut a healthy snack and a slice of brown bread bad...

Delay in draft rules on food packaging health claims. A draft of new EU rules on health claims on food packets has been delayed again, European Commission officials have...

Commission rules could lead to misleading labels, watchdog warns. Europe's consumer watchdog has warned that food manufacturers will be authorised to claim that some...

Food labels could become easier to understand across the EU this Sunday (1 July), with the entry into force of new health legislation. The regulation on nutrition and health...

Just like the food and drink industry, BEUC, the European consumers' group, is worried about the future of the EU health-claims regulation. Unlike industry, BEUC is worried...

Following a series of food scares in the 1990s, European governments and MEPs in 2002 agreed to set up a new scientific advisory body to monitor EU food and animal feed...

Until very recently, the EU had no rules specifically targeted at food advertising. Though faced with strict legislation to prevent false or misleading advertising claims,...

EU shoppers today are spoilt for choice when it comes to healthy food. Practically every big food company and supermarket chain has a food range branded with reassuring names...

The proposed directive on health and nutrition claims should not be watered down or compromised in the European Parliament. The Commission proposes that health and nutrition...

Consumer groups are calling on MEPs to end "misleading" health claims on hundreds of popular food products. A proposed regulation on nutrition and health claims comes up for...

As the European Parliament again looks at the proposed EU regulation on nutrition and health claims made on foods, it is clear that while making some improvements on the...

The advertising and labelling of food has now become a battleground in the campaign against obesity. Advertisers, retailers and food and drink manufacturers are fighting a...

The Council of Ministers is likely to agree a controversial food labelling plan on 3 June with a crucial clause that MEPs have just voted to remove. Backing from EU...

Tamsin Rose, Donal Walshe and others in the letter ‘MEPs must demand more on health claims' (European Voice, 19-25 May) wrongly assert that, on the issue of the Nutrition...

We represent a coalition of European health and consumer groups concerned about the vote next Wednesday (25 May) in the European Parliament on the regulation on health and...

Salt is a killer, according to Professor George McGregor, an expert on blood pressure and chairman of the UK-based Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH). Salt, he said,...

The letter from Claudio Murri (‘EU nutrition plan must be flexible', European Voice, 4-10 March) is a wrong interpretation of the Commission's proposal on nutrition and...