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Food packaging and label design could fall into disarray

By Paul Gander

The EU’s Food Information for Consumers Regulation (FIC) is threatening to turn pack and label design processes on their head, experts have said, while implementation is slowed by incomplete provisions, divided UK responsibilities and the overlapping...

EFSA's restrictive descriptor rule branded absurd

By Gary Scattergood

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is "creating more problems than it solves" with its narrow interpretation of what constitutes a generic health claim descriptor.

Diet linked to age-related gene changes and cancer

By Gary Scattergood

New research shows that dietary factors affect age-related changes to our genes – known as epigenetic markers – that have been associated with the development of bowel cancer.