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.
2025-07 EU SPECIALTY FOOD INGREDIENTS WELCOMES A NEW MEMBER COMPANY!
LANXESS has become a member of EU Specialty Food Ingredients, joining an alliance of 28 companies and 15 national and sectoral associations. They are committed in a unified Mission to increase trust in specialty food ingredients towards the relevant stakeholders by: Engaging with authorities for...
2025-06 World Microbiome Day 2025
EU Specialty Food Ingredients is pleased to join today the celebrations of World Microbiome Day 2025. The human gut microbiome plays an important role not only in digestion, but in many other aspects of wellbeing and health. There are several groups of specialty food ingredients which...
2025-06 EU SPECIALTY FOOD INGREDIENTS ELECTS ITS NEW PRESIDENT
At its Board meeting on 17 June 2025, EU Specialty Food Ingredients elected a new President: Ms Saskia Kliphuis, Public Affairs Manager at Corbion, succeeding Mr Huub Scheres (IFF). “I am honoured to have been appointed President of EU Specialty Food Ingredients at a pivotal moment for the food ingredient sector. Our...
2025-06 FROM SCIENCE TO SHELF: HOW THE WAGENINGEN ECOSYSTEM DRIVES INGREDIENT INNOVATION
The EU Specialty Food Ingredients’ Annual General Meeting was held in a hybrid format this year, online and at the campus of Wageningen University and Research (WUR), located in what is known as the 'food valley area” in The Netherlands. Attendees had the honour of...
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Latest Updates from EU Specialty Food Ingredients
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02-07 EU FOCUS GROUP ON COSTS AND BENEFITS OF SUSTAINABILITY REGULATIONS FOR OPERATORS IN THE EU FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN
-EU Specialty Food Ingredients’ delegates are invited to contribute to a Focus Group organised by a consultant to the EC Joint Research Center. Insights gathered will serve two main purposes: first, to inform policymakers by providing a clearer understanding of the direct impacts of sustainability-related regulations; and second, to support the JRC in enhancing the parameterization of agri-food models, thereby improving the modelling and analysis of sustainability regulations.
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30-06 BOOSTING THE BIO-ECONOMY IN THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR
-A EU Specialty Food Ingredients’ delegate participates in the workshop co-hosted by DG GROW and DG SANTE. DG ENVI presents the ongoing work on the new EU Bioeconomy Strategy, which will be adopted by the end of this year.
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25-06 FOODDRINKEUROPE’S IDEAS FEST
-The delegation from EU Specialty Food Ingredients is honoured to participate once more in the Food Future Ideas' Fest organized by FoodDrinkEurope. Â
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17-06 ACTION ON HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE DIETS
-A EU Specialty Food Ingredients’ representative participates in the first workshop organised after the Code was recognised within the recently published Vision for Agriculture and Food. Attended by Code of Conduct signatories, policymakers, and civil society, the workshop explores how businesses are taking action to support more healthy, balanced, and sustainable diets.
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