Report concludes that EU action is needed to set legal limits on trans fats in food
On 3 December, the European Commission adopted a report on trans fats (TFA) in food and in the overall diet of Europeans.
December 4, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: european, european-commission, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, tfa, trans-fats
72% want information on stunning of animals when buying meat, says EU-wide study
The British Veterinary Association has called today on the European Commission to back proposals to introduce labelling of non-stun slaughtered meat after a study of 13,500 meat consumers across 27…
June 9, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 500-meat, association, back-proposals, british, british-veterinary, european-commission, introduce-labelling, non-stun-slaughtered, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling
What’s not on the bottle? Public health organisations call on the European Commission to label alcoholic drinks
On the 10th September in the European Parliament (Brussels) public health experts will be calling the European Commission to make changes to alcohol labelling legislation and allow consumers to…
September 11, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 10th, alcohol-labelling, calling-the-european, diet, european, european-commission, european-parliament, make-changes, oncalldietitian.com, public-health, the-10th
Study maps EU school food policies for the first time
As part of the European Commission’s efforts to help reduce childhood obesity, the Commission’s in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), has published the first comprehensive…
July 17, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: centre, childhood-obesity, commission, european, european-commission, help-reduce, joint-research, jrc, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, published-the-first, the-first
JRC Develops New Testing Methods For Contaminated Sports Drinks From Taiwan
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has developed three new methods to detect an illegal clouding agent which can be found in sports drinks imported from Taiwan. In late May, the Taiwanese authorities informed the European Commission that significant amounts of phthalates were illegally added to certain categories of sports drinks…
July 30, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: agent-which, centre, european-commission, illegal-clouding, joint, joint-research, nutrition, on call diets, phthalates-were, sports-drinks, taiwanese