EU FOOD LAW: DESCRIPTION

The Brussels office acts as regular counsel to several food producing and processing companies.  A list of recent projects is set out below.

• Advice on implementation of EU Minced Meat Directive.
• Review of national implementation of European Food Hygiene Directive and possibility of “codes of conduct.”
• Review of existing national legislation on authorization and labeling of genetically modified food, including for restaurants.
• Review of national regulation on irradiation of foodstuffs.
• Assessment and lobbying on Danish legislation on trans fatty acids.
• Advice on nominal content requirements, and nominal ranges of quantities allowed for vegetable juice, fruit juice, etc.
• Advice on hormones in beef.
• Filing novel food authorizations, notifications, and several legal opinions on scope of EU Novel Food Regulation.
• Advice on regulatory regime for feedingstuffs.
• Advice on contractual obligations in relation to supplies during Belgian dioxin crisis.
• Setting up of voluntary nutritional labeling schemes.