Iwona Wrześniewska-Wal

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 1, Page 59 - 60

Monika Zboralska

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 1, Page 58 - 58

The Polish food supplement market in 2016 was valued at some 3.5 billion Polish zlotys in retail trade, the 2017 forecast projects 4-5 billion zlotys, and it keeps rising. A Polish consumer is simply attacked by advertisements of food supplements, drugs and pharmaceuticals, in all communication channels. As early as 2015, one-fourth of TV commercials concerned health products, and about half of them on the radio.

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 2, Page 171 - 197

Barbara Klaus, Carlotta Busani

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 2, Page 148 - 150

Sebastián Romero Melchor

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 2, Page 155 - 160

Juanjuan Sun, Jasmin Buijs

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 6, Page 503 - 513

“Internet plus” has contributed to radical changes of food supplies and consumption patterns in China. This called for a need to fill the legislative-regulatory vacuum of online food business while promoting digital economic development. While the rise of large-scale platforms constitutes a challenge for such regulation, those platforms also bring about regulatory innovation by taking advantage of self-regulation and co-regulation.This paper analyses the role of online platforms and aims to provide an insight into the development of online food regulation in China, which may subsequently contribute to the establishment of common principles for online food regulation, in particular, and internet regulation, in general. Keywords: internet regulation; platform; online food; food safety; China.

Moisés Chong Sakihara

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 6, Page 494 - 502

Food ingredients with technological properties can fall into different EU legal categories of food substances under determined situations and conditions. This knowledge becomes relevant for food manufacturers by helping them to avoid non-compliances during the use of these substances in their food products. It is also important for companies producing these ingredients by guiding them on visualising a priori the regulatory characteristics of these substances during the development and, finally, for EU policymakers committed to food innovation in terms of reducing the legal uncertainty around the classification of ingredients in the food sector. The current research proposes an integrated decision-tree depicting this classification.

Riccardo Berti, Mariagrazia Semprebon

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 6, Page 522 - 531

One of the pivotal issues on the horizon of the new Chinese Food Safety Law, adopted in 2015, is the traceability of food. This western concept (borrowed from EU law) has been introduced in China in the wake of food safety incidents, which undermined consumer confidence in domestic foods. Between audacious technological solutions (blockchain, rfid and QR-codes) and recurring problems (lack of databases, overlapping standards, poor administrative coordination, among others) this issue is not only interesting for its peculiar traits in the PRC, but also because it involves both ruling and technology, linked amid them, in China, by several technical standards (guobiao). While Xi Jinping urges for strict food safety measures, the implementation of a comprehensive food traceability system is a long and costly process, which involves local administrative levels (traditionally a weak point in Chinese law enforcement, biased by local protectionism) and the active participation of the private sector that, like in environmental law, gains importance as a supporter and aggregator of consumer needs. This study examines several technical standards and their relationship with the relevant laws in the subject, providing then examples of FTS implementation at local level and covering the normative basis for the most interesting technological solutions tested in China.

Neli Sochirca

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 6, Page 514 - 521

The European legal framework on vegan and vegetarian claims is under current revision. The lack of harmonized rules was not a concern initially, probably because of the minor issues this represented among foodstuff. Today, the rise of alternatives to animal-based products generates an increasing legislative gap between vegan or vegetarian foods and other products. Member States have sparsely started to address this in their national rules or practices, while the CJEU positions push vegan and vegetarian claims to the wall. Conjuncture seems to be more favourable than ever for a specific regulation on vegan and vegetarian claims. The recent European Commission’s engagement therefore can only be greeted.

Luis González Vaqué, Cristina Vidreras

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 6, Page 532 - 536