A new EU regulation defines the actions competent authorities must take when noncompliance is identified, including requirements for product disposal, investigations, and risk-based enforcement measures.
The European Commission has adopted two regulations that 1) exempt additional shelf-stable composite foods from import border controls and 2) exempt qualifying shellfish products from import control requirements for drug and pesticide residues.
The EU has updated requirements for recycled food packaging, including expanded traceability and import controls, and authorized four new substances for use in plastic food-contact materials.
The monitoring initiative set forth in Recommendation (EU) 2026/2335 is intended to improve data availability on the occurrence and distribution of the industrial chemicals in food, supporting more robust assessments of human dietary exposure.
Less than a month after a targeted refrigerator cyberattack hit hundreds of grocery stores in France, causing temperatures to be cranked up overnight, another similar incident has impacted additional food retailers across Europe.
The guidancewas developed following the EU’s ban on BPA in food-contact materials and describes the data requirements for the safety assessment of other bisphenols used in specific food-contact applications.
Hundreds of grocery stores in France were targeted by a cyberattack in which hackers raised fridge temperatures to as high as 50 °C (122 °F), leading to mass food spoilage and several fires. Some retailers in several other European countries were also hit.
An analysis of multinational WGS surveillance data suggests that a multidrug-resistant lineage of Campylobacter coli has circulated across human, animal, food, and environmental sources in Europe for years, highlighting the need for coordinated One Health genomic surveillance.
SÜDPACK has expanded its flexographic printing capabilities at its Competence Center in Kłobuck, Poland with the installation of a new high-performance printing system.
