Food recalls in EU – Week 16/2015

Posted on by Cesare Varallo

This week on the EU RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) we can find the following notifications: 1. Alerts followed by a recall from consumers: -ย Packaging defective:ย breakage of glass wine bottle Ottoventi Punto from Italy, following company's own check. Notified by United Kingdom, distributed also to France and Ireland; -ย Pathogenic micro-organisms:ย Listeria monocytogenes (1800 … Continue reading Food recalls in EU – Week 16/2015

Brief overview on the Reg. (EU) n. 1169/2011, also known as FIC (“Food information to consumers”).

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Following the requests of many of my "non-EU" readers, I publish a brief recap of the new provisions of the Regulation...and some links to useful resources. As of 13 December 2014, new EU food labelingย rules are in force: from this date became applicable the Regulation (EU) n. 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, also known … Continue reading Brief overview on the Reg. (EU) n. 1169/2011, also known as FIC (“Food information to consumers”).