EU Specialty Food Ingredients
Specialty food ingredients have technological and/or functional benefits and are essential in providing today's consumer with a wide range of tasty, safe, healthy, affordable, qualitative and sustainably produced food. They are key segment in the European food industry that is used in many of consumer foods and have consequently become part of our daily life.
EU Specialty Food Ingredients is THE voice of specialty food ingredients in Europe. EU Specialty Food Ingredients represents its members by:
- Engaging with authorities for the continued development of a fair regulatory environment;
- Being a transparent and credible partner, committed to science and knowledge sharing;
- Developing understanding of the role and benefits that specialty food ingredients play today, starting with food manufacturers.
And thus: increasing trust in specialty food ingredients towards the relevant stakeholders.
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2018-07FOR AN AMBITIOUS EU INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY – A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
The coalition Industry4Europe has issued a new joint paper on “A Governance Structure for an ambitious EU Industrial Strategy”, which has been co-signed by 122 organisations. It provides concrete recommendations to ensure that Industry is dealt with as a top political priority by all EU Institutions during...
2018-06PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE USE AND CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY THROUGH OPEN EXCHANGE OF DIGITAL SEQUENCE INFORMATION
Together with 65 public and private sector organisations, academic and scientific institutions, data repositories and collections representing a broad range of stakeholders, EU Specialty Food Ingredients has co-signed a statement that offers six recommendations to the Subsidiary Body on Scientific,...
2018-05NAGOYA PROTOCOL - EU SPECIALTY FOOD INGREDIENTS TO SPEAK AT VITAFOODS 2018
On 16 May 2018, on behalf of EU Specialty Food Ingredients, Mr Markus Wyss will deliver a presentation about “the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing and its potential impact on product development activities” along the following lines:
- The protocol is a supplementary agreement to the...
2018-0410th Anniversary of the Food Improvement Agents Package (FIAP) – EU Specialty Food Ingredients held a Panel Debate
In December 2008, the European Union adopted its Food Improvement Agents Package (also known as ‘FIAP’). The purpose of this new set of legal instruments was to harmonise, streamline the use of food additives, enzymes and flavourings, and establish a common authorisation procedure for these products.
At...
EU Specialty Food Ingredients Activities
Latest Updates from EU Specialty Food Ingredients
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20-07Market Access
-EU Specialty Food Ingredients participates in the meeting of DG Trade’s Market Access WG on SPS issues, where the approval of food additives in Japan is discussed amongst others.
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19-06International Conference on Novel Foods
-EU Specialty Food Ingredients attends the International Conference on Novel Foods in Prague (19 - 20 June) which aims to bring together risk managers, leading academic scientists, food business operators and interested public to exchange and share their experiences on all aspects of novel foods.
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14-06Multiple composition of foodstuffs
-The JRC harmonised testing methodology for selecting and testing of food products to assess quality related characteristics, which EU Specialty Food Ingredients has contributed to develop with Member and Stakeholders of the food chain, is presented in detail at the Sherpa meeting of the High Level Forum for a Better Functioning Food Supply Chain.
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13-06EFSA Round Table with industry associations
-EU Specialty Food Ingredients contribute for the 5th consecutive year to the EFSA’s Roundtable, the aim of which is to discuss transparency and dialogue during EFSA’s risk assessment process, and delivers at this occasion a presentation showing how the possibilities for engagement with EFSA improved the re-evaluation of food additives process and to what extent the efforts shall be continued to enhance the procedure further.
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