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Author: Lomme van Der Veer

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Food Online: Radical Changes to the Digital Shop Window journal article

Lomme van Der Veer

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 9 (2014), Issue 2, Page 78 - 90

In 2014 food webshops will be faced with a very large number of regulations on both the content of distance contracts and presentation. As regards content, the right of withdrawal will have a drastic effect. Even more radical is that a very detailed set of obligations to provide information has been suddenly declared to apply to distance vendors. Those webshops that aren’t still ignorant have great concerns.

Real Food from Virtual Shops journal article

Lomme van Der Veer

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 7 (2012), Issue 1, Page 3 - 13

Sale of food via the Internet takes place in a contested area between civil code requirements on distance selling and public law requirements on food labelling. Due to the characteristics of food, consumers usually cannot enjoy much of the additional protection the legislator provides her/him regarding distance contracts. Due to the characteristics of Internet sales consumers cannot enjoy many of the rights conferred upon them under food labelling law to make informed choices. Private food law so far does not seem to be closing the gap. The situation is not as bleak as it would seem at first sight. The disadvantages facing the consumer of food online awaken the potentials of the general contract law requirements of conformity. If anywhere they apply to their fullest, it is in the specific context of food stores along the digital highway.

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