Our late summer issue offers an in-depth analysis of the ECJ approach to advance mechanically separated meat production highlighting the policy interplay between technology and law. Moreover, it examines different types of labelling: from front-of-pack nutrition declarations to evocations of protected geographical indications; and traces the roots of the international legal protection of food safety. Alongside the usual legislative and jurisdictional updates and lists of recent notifications and publications, EFFL 4/2017 also reports on relevant developments in the national spheres of food and feed law in France, Italy, Romania, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.