The United Kingdom government has once again postponed the commencement of import inspections for EU goods, pushing the deadline to January 2024. This is the fifth time such measures have been delayed since Bre [...]
Following several years of rigorous research and stringent regulatory efforts, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule, revoking the status of partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) as G [...]
Aleph Farms, an Israeli company at the forefront of the production of cultured meat, has submitted a regulatory approval dossier in Switzerland, marking the first application for European approval. The request [...]
The European Commission has published a new regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1442, which modifies Annex I of Regulation (EU) no. 10/2011 concerning plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact w [...]
Leaked documents reveal that the European Commission is on the verge of reneging on its commitment to ban all but the most essential hazardous chemicals in Europe. This promise was a key aspect of [...]
The Chinese government is in the process of amending its regulation on food contact materials (General Safety Requirements for Food Contact Materials and Articles, GB 4806.1) for the first time since 2016. Rece [...]
The European Commission replaced its regulation on maximum levels for certain contaminants in food (Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006) with a new one (Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 of 25 April 2023) that will [...]
The EU Commission has announced plans to speed up the deregulation of plants derived from new genomic techniques (NGTs or New GE). In a letter to the non-profit organization Testbiotech, the Commi [...]
On May 3, 2023 the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Marie-Claude Bibeau announced the implementation of a revised guideline for seed regulations. This update enables plant developers to introduce ge [...]
Testbiotech, an independent center of expertise concerned mainly with the ecological, social and ethical consequences of modern biotechnology, reported that the European Commission will probably not be able to [...]
