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Challenges of the Food Information Regulation: Revision and Simplification of Food Labelling Legislation? journal article

Olaf Sosnitza

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 6 (2011), Issue 1, Page 16 - 26

I. Introduction On January 30th 2008 the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on the provision of food information to consumers (hereinafter referred to as the Draft Regulation)1. The initiative’s objective was to consolidate and update EC food labelling legislation by merging and amending the hitherto effective Directive on Food Labelling 2000/13/EC together with Directive 90/496/EEC on Nutrition Labelling. In addition to the merging of Directives 2000/13/EC and 90/496/EEC, five further directives and one regulation were included and recast in the proposal so that these disparate sources of law were replaced by one piece of legislation2. The following contribution deals first with the content of the proposal (see section II). Then follows a review of some of the responses received to the consultation (section III). This is followed by a critical analysis.


Cholesterol-Related Advertising Statements for Foods journal article

Olaf Sosnitza

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 1 (2006), Issue 2, Page 7

I. Introduction The market for foods has changed considerably in recent years. Caused by the technological progress achieved, there has been increasing success in adding further characteristics to foods over and above the simple nutritional function, which in the widest sense are comparable of having a potentially favourable influence on the bodily functions of the human being. Involved in this process are not only the novel foods, which cover a

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