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 and tomorrow, starting with food manufacturers.
And thus: increasing trust in specialty food ingredients towards the relevant stakeholders.
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2022-01How do we know food additives are safe?
EU Specialty Food Ingredients welcomes the new infographic published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations explaining what food additives are and their approval process. FAO and WHO establish a panel of top experts to assess if a food additive can...
2021-12Specialty Food Ingredients can play an important role in achieving the Farm to Fork objectives
Specialty Food Ingredients was proud to support today, 6th December, the EURACTIV virtual conference ‘Between Farm and Fork: The role of innovative ingredients and food technology in achieving F2F objectives'. It was good to see the panellists agreeing on the need to have systemic innovation to...
2021-11CONSUMERS ATTITUDES AND VIEWS ON SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
Professor K.G. Grunert, Professor of Marketing at Aarhus University and the founder and director of the MAPP Research Center, presents the results of a Eurobarometer study on consumers’ attitudes and views on sustainable food systems carried out in 2020 at the Extraordinary AGM of EU...
2021-11EU SPECIALTY FOOD INGREDIENTS WELCOMES ITS 43rd MEMBER
On 9th November, KALSEC Ltd joined the 24 leading producers of specialty food ingredients who were already direct member companies of EU Specialty Food Ingredients. Together with 18 national and sectoral member associations, member companies actively contribute to the mission of the federation, i.e. ultimately to increase trust in...
EU Specialty Food Ingredients Activities
Latest Updates from EU Specialty Food Ingredients
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16-11Market Access
-EU Specialty Food Ingredients participates in a meeting organised by DG Trade about market-access related issues in third-countries.
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10-11Strategic developments within and around EFSA
-The EFSA Stakeholder Forum 2021 gives EU Specialty Food Ingredients’ delegate the occasion to hear from EFSA senior management, the European Commission, JRC and FAO ways to tackle the challenges and opportunity of the ecosystem EFSA is operating in: evolving policy framework of the Sustainable EU Food System Initiative, how to address the ever-increasing amount of information and data and how societal aspects come into play in EFSA’s mission to provide the best possible food safety risk assessment now and in the future.
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26-10EFSA CATALOGUE OF SERVICES
-EFSA presents to EU Specialty Food Ingredients’ members the last update of the Catalogue of Services to Applicants.
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26-10EU LEGISLATVE DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING FOOD ADDITIVES & FOOD ENZYMES
-At a meeting of their Food Improvement Agents Committee, EU Specialty Food Ingredients’ members hear from DG SANTE about the legislative developments regarding food additives and food enzymes.
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