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US craft brewer Flying Dog Brewery says it will continue to distribute its Easy IPA Session India Pale Ale in the UK: ignoring a ruling from an alcohol marketing watchdog which said the beer’s artwork ‘encourages illegal, irresponsible or immoderate consumption’. Flying Dog says it is making a stand for free speech, creativity, and small […]

The UK’s two food regulators today published a draft review with a series of recommendations for the meat industry and the regulators themselves aimed at improving compliance and assurance in the meat processing industry. The six-month review was launched in the wake of a number of high profile non-compliance issues identified at cutting plants. The […]

Belgium has updated its legal definition of dairy cream, light cream and whipped cream. The previous regulation governing the cream trade has been in place since May 1934. The draft regulation aims to create rules that are “in line with current standards ”, it says. It updates the definitions of cream, whipped cream and light […]

Italy’s Competition and Market Authority (AGCM) has fined lifestyle firm Life120 over €500,000 after the company were guilty of making false claims and employing ‘non-transparent’ methods in promoting its food supplement range. “This is a particularly insidious practice,” said the AGCM in a statement. “It disorients the consumer, preventing them from making informed decisions of […]

The European Commission (EC) intends to authorise for the first time a health claim arising from the combined effects of a number of substances, in a decision that affects firms backing the synergistic effect of nutrients in their products. By publishing a Draft Commission Regulation , the EC intends to press ahead with greenlighting a […]

The Philippines’ Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has announced that health warnings may soon be placed on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), within the next one to two months. DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez revealed that President Rodrigo Duterte gave the directive. He said the President was concerned that most powdered juices contain high levels of sugar […]

The European Union has approved a protected geographical indication (PGI) for Italian cured meat product, pitina. Pitina is made from a lean meat paste from either sheep, goat, roe deer, fallow deer, red deer or chamois (only one may be used), and a mainly fat part of pork belly or shoulder. To be sold on […]

Front-of-pack (FOP) labels with graphic warnings are the most effective in reducing intended sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) purchases, according to researchers from Australia. They argue that labels showing decayed teeth and warning text are able to reduce the number of SSB consumers by 36%. The research conducted by the Global Obesity Centre, Monash University Department of […]