by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 8, 2019 | Food Fraud
What is food fraud? Do you remember the horse meat scandal? It originated in Ireland at the beginning of 2013, when food inspectors found out that beef meat sold at common supermarkets contained considerable traces of horse meat. From there, over 15,000 tests were...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 19, 2019 | Algemeen
In March 2017 the EU parliament and the commission adopted Regulation 2017/625 on Official Controls on food and feed – Official Controls Regulation. Most of its provisions will be applied in December 2019. The new Regulation incorporates (and repeals) several...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Oct 21, 2016 | Labelling
Labelling Did you know that Labelling is the single biggest root cause for product recalls in the food industry? Labelling mistakes are the single biggest reason for recalls in food products which are caused by companies themselves (50% of the issues is still...