CHINA – The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) has issued an additional six months transition period for domestic and foreign pet food producers to transition to new labels as per the new […]
AUSTRALIA – Alcohol producers will be forced to label their products with warnings relating to the risks of drinking during pregnancy in an agreement reached by Australian and New Zealand ministers. According to Food Business […]
ASIA- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) cabinet has issued regulations for the dairy, beverages and juice categories, requiring licencing of companies as well as proper labeling of the products to ensure conformity to standards. The […]
USA – The Food and Drug Administration has signalled that it plans to start enforcing a federal standard that defines “milk” as coming from the “milking of one or more healthy cows.” According to CNN, […]
USA – A Nutrition Facts label can relay vital information to a customer by helping them reduce sodium, fat, sugar or calories, but only if a customer reads them. And a new study from the […]
INDIA – Indian food safety and standards regulator FSSAI has released a unified regulation on organic foods in the country, as the country hopes to tap into growing worldwide demand. It has also launched a […]
UK – Nestle Breakfast Cereals have adopted the UK Government’s colour-coded labelling system, beginning October 2017. The labelling system, which features red, amber and green boxes, shows the amount of sugar, salt, energy and fat […]
EUROPE – Food and drink producers in Europe have called on the European Union to develop EU-wide standards on the precautionary allergen labelling as a much needed step towards completing the single market. As much […]
GREECE – Greece plans to make the country of origin labelling on milk mandatory and is set to vote on a Bill to implement country of origin for its milk products, according to the country’s […]
ITALY – Italy has challenged the requirements that specify the production site on the labels of transformed food products, which comes as a defiance of the EU’s food rules that unilaterally mandated country of origin […]
