European committee specifies rules regarding the draft regulation on the provision of food information to consumers *

European Union - May 6 2011
In January 2008 the European Commission submitted the draft Regulation on the provision of food information to consumers amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 and repealing Directives 87/250/EEC, 90/496/EEC, 1999/10/EC, 2000/13/EC, 2002/67/EC, 2008/5/EC and Regulation (EC) No 608/2004.

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Further European developments on food labelling: European committee specifies rules regarding the draft Regulation on the provision of food information to consumers *

European Union - May 6 2011
In January 2008 the European Commission submitted the draft Regulation on the provision of food information to consumers amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 and repealing Directives 87/250/EEC, 90/496/EEC, 1999/10/EC, 2000/13/EC, 2002/67/EC, 2008/5/EC and Regulation (EC) No 608/2004.

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New legislation on falsified medicines in the European Union *

European Union - May 3 2011
The European Parliament has adopted Directive 2010/84/EU (the 'Directive') aimed at preventing the entry of medicinal products which falsely indicate their identity, history or source into the legal supply chain.

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The German “dioxin incident” *

Germany - February 9 2011
Since December 2010 there have been several media reports on dioxin in animal feed in Germany.

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Bread insurrection – discounter Aldi süd brought to trial by bakers *

Germany - October 11 2010
The National Federation of Bakers Association has started an open dispute over the vending machines of the discount supermarket Aldi Süd.

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