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Autumn College on EU Food Law

This year is the 4th edition of a 2-days seminar on two particular topics of EU Food Law, notably health claims and food information. Karin created this event, together with Lexxion, in…

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New legislation: COOL for unprocessed meats

In a previous post from January last year I wrote about country of origin labelling (COOL). I mentioned that the Commission was expected to adopt implementing rules on mandatory COOL for unprocessed meat…

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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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New Labelling Regulation: more COOL?

Rumour has it that the European Commission will decide not to go for full country-of-origin labelling (‘COOL’) on all meat products in the European Union. According to globalmeatnews.com the European Commission is planning…

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How to advertise healthy berries without cherrypicking?

How do you communicate the main characteristics of your product to the public? First of all by its name of course – fair enough. At second glance, the list of ingredients comes…

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