Rural Life
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has issued a food allergen alert for a batch of glazed...
Agri-Business
A butcher in Co. Dublin has been included among food businesses on which enforcement orders were served in July.
Environment
MEPs will hold a final vote today on a directive for labelling products, which will ban greenwashing and misleading information
The EU council of ministers has adopted its position on the proposed regulation on digital labelling of EU fertilising products.
The European Commission has today (Monday, February 28) adopted a proposal on the voluntary digital...
The IFA said the findings of an investigation into how the Bord Bia Quality Assured mark appeared on French potatoes must be made public.
The FSAI uncovered non-compliance in several food businesses during an audit of meat labelling and traceability standards
Pig/Poultry
Shoppers don't deserved to be hoodwinked by the false labelling of food products, according to the IFA's Frank Brady.
The EU should place mandatory limits on industrially-produced trans-fats, known as trans-fatty acids (TFA), MEPs have said.
Agri Politics
The European Dairy Association has written to the EU ombudsman overdraft origin labelling plans for dairy products announced by a host of EU Member States.
Barack Obama last week signed into law a GMO labelling bill which will require food which contains GMOs to be labelled for the first time.
New French laws on country of origin labeling cleared the last hurdle this week and will come into force next year.
Beef
The European Commission has decided to allow France to introduce a two-year trial period for the mandatory labelling of origin for milk and meat ingredients in foods.
Customers have the right to assure themselves that the food they consume is labelled authentically," according to the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed.
Country of origin labelling should be made mandatory for meat and milk, MEPs have once again reiterated in a non-binding resolution.
Labelling food produced in Northern Ireland as 'Irish' may be misleading to consumers, according to the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA).
There was a 10% increase in the number of complaints to the FSAI last year regarding incorrect food labelling.
The US has repealed its law on the country of origin labelling requirements for beef and pork products.
Farmers, processors, retailers and consumers can have their say when it comes to country of origin labelling rules to non-prepacked meat, the Department of Agriculture has said.
The European Commission concluded that the benefits from new compulsory dairy labelling requirements do not clearly outweigh the costs.
New guidelines on food labelling have been issued by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), which it says will help ensure consumers are not misled
