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A guide to the Dutch sustainable certification jungle in food

In the beginning of the new calendar year, people tend to stick to new year’s resolutions, such as eating healthier. In supermarkets and other stores choosing healthy/ sustainable products is made easy…

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Who Does Not Want To Have A Healthy Breakfast?

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has been pretty active this Summer. Following up on previous enforcement reports on nutrition claims,  it recently published such enforcement report re. both…

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Latest and greatest from Vitafoods Europe

On 5 and 6 May 2015, the Vitafoods Europe Conference took place in Geneva. For companies active in the ingredient business, this is the yearly meet up to share the latest ingredients…

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Axon seminar Functional & Medical Foods

On 24 September 2014 our firm organizes a seminar addressing the developments in Functional and Medical Foods. Where? Next door to our office in Pakhuis de Zwijger. Functional foods The Institute of…

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Glimpse of IFT 2014

From 21 – 24 June, the yearly conference of the International Food Technologists (IFT) took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. During this conference, over 16.000 food science and technology professionals discussed the…

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Misleading Advertising of Food Supplements – or not?

The role of national customs and self-regulatory bodies Introduction Recently, the Rotterdam District Court decided a dispute between Omega Pharma and Procter & Gamble on allegedly misleading advertising of food supplements. The…

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Spring College on EU Food Law

After a succesful Autumn College last year September, this 2 days event on EU Food Law is repeated under the name Spring College. The event will take place on 27 and 28…

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COOL update

 As announced in the post of October 30, 2013, the European Commission was expected to table a report concerning mandatory country of origin labelling (COOL) for meat used as an ingredient. In December…

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Prošek vs. Prosecco – cheers!

Italy vs. Croatia What’s in a name? With Croatia’s accession to the European Union as of 1 July 2013 the beloved Croatian wine called Prošek is not allowed to be marketed under…

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