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Amelie de Grahl, Emmanuel Treuil

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 19 (2024), Issue 2, Page 72 - 76

More and more start-up companies around the world are developing processing technologies to produce ingredients that imitate, for instance, proteins usually found in milk obtained from cows. These ‘lab-grown ingredients’ must undergo a pre-market authorization either according to Regulation (EC) 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed or according to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 on Novel Foods, depending on whether the new product contains host-DNA protein or not. In both cases, the name of the new ingredient must comply with horizontal and vertical EU Regulation. This article aims to give an insight into some of the technologies used as well as the regulatory requirements for the placing on the market of lab-grown ingredients. Regarding the labelling of such ingredients as well as the final products incorporating such ingredients, the authors recall the specific European rules on the absolute protection of dairy terms laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products. Accordingly, lab-grown ingredients and products incorporating them are not allowed to use any milk and dairy designations.

Emmanuel Treuil

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 11 (2016), Issue 6, Page 486 - 493

France adopted a regulation on mandatory origin labelling for milk, milk used as an ingredient and meat used as an ingredient. The French authorities frame the initiative as an “experimentation”, which will run from 1 January 2017 until 31 December 2018. The mandatory labelling of origin applies only to products manufactured and marketed in France. Despite these precautions, the text raises many questions about its compliance with European rules.

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