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2018-12 EU Specialty Food Ingredients at the 40th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU)

During the year the EU Specialty Food Ingredients contributed to the development of Codex standards and guidelines in several electronic working groups established within the CCNFSDU for 2018, as well as during the physical working group meeting on the development of a Guideline for Ready...

2018-11 A NEW BOARD ELECTED

Mr Dominique Speleers, Executive Board Member for Sales and Marketing at Beneo, is re-appointed President. Mrs Marie-Laure Empinet (Executive Committee Member at Starch Europe) is re-appointed Vice-President and Mr Bernd Haber (Director Global Regulatory & External Affairs / Human Nutrition at BASF) is appointed Treasurer. The...

2018-11 A NEW MEMBER COMPANY JOINS EU SPECIALTY FOOD INGREDIENTS

At its Annual General Meeting on 13th November, the General Assembly has welcomed the Spanish company PRODUCTOS SUR as new member of the association. The broad membership of EU Specialty Food Ingredients makes it an undisputed key stakeholder of the food value chain, through its...

2018-10 INDUSTRY4EUROPE JOINT CALL TO THE CANDIDATES FOR THE 2019 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS TO PUT INDUSTRY AT THE CORE OF THE EU’s FUTURE

EU Specialty Food Ingredients has co-signed a joint call to the future members of the European Parliament to commit today to: Put industry at the top of the political agenda of the European Parliament during the next institutional cycle (2019-2024) Urge the next European Commission...

2018-07 FOR 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...

2018-06 PROMOTING 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, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) in...