Aug 2024
On 23 May 2024, Estonia issued Presidential Decree No. 410 amending the Food Act with effect from 1 July 2024. The main amendments include:
Aug 2024
On 23 May 2024, the International Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) issued Consultation Paper No. CL2024/39-FO to revise the standard for fats and oils, with a feedback period ending on 30 June 2025 for comments. The main revisions are:
Aug 2024
At present, China's food classification system has different food classification systems according to the needs of different professional fields. In the process of use, special attention should be paid to the fact that the same food may have different categories in different food classification systems. This article introduces China's various food classification systems, and on this basis, explains how to accurately locate food classification through examples.
Aug 2024
On 12 April 2024, Denmark proposed to amend the regulation on the addition of certain substances other than vitamins and minerals to food, with a feedback period until 19 April 2024, as shown in the table below.
Aug 2024
Not long ago, Professor Li Yuan's team from the School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, published a paper entitled "Highly active probiotics delivered by brown polyphenol metal frame microgel of Cynanchum sativum polysaccharides synergistically modulate the enterohepatic axis to alleviate liver injury" in the internationally renowned journal "Advanced Functional Materials".
Aug 2024
At the FIC2024 exhibition held in March this year, Zhongke Xinyang firstly introduced NMN (β-nicotinamide mononucleotide), which is fully synthesised by microbial cell factories, and attracted the attention of many companies and consumers. In fact, as a potential food additive, NMN has been used as a food raw material or natural health product ingredient in Japan, Canada and other countries to improve human immunity, gene repair ability and body metabolism. Under the background of global economic growth and deepening population ageing, anti-ageing has long been not only the immediate needs of the middle-aged and the elderly, but also extended to the post-90s and post-00s groups. NMN is expected to become a star among "anti-aging" ingredients.
Aug 2024
On 21 May 2024, Health Canada issued P-FAA-24-01 amending the list of permitted food additives with other approved uses to propose the removal of brominated vegetable oil (BVO) from the list of food additives.
Aug 2024
According to the data analysis of the World Bank, as of 2022, the proportion of China's elderly population aged 65 and above will be 13.72%. With the accelerating trend of aging, the National Bureau of Statistics predicts that the aging population will reach 370 million in 2030, accounting for 25.5% of the total population, and will step into the super-aging society.
Aug 2024
On 24 April 2024, the Food and Drug Administration of Thailand (FDA) issued a consultation document proposing to revise the standards for olive oil and pomace oil, with a feedback period ending on 14 June 2024, for comments. The main contents are as follows:
Jul 2024
According to the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), on 13 May 2024, the Commission issued Regulation (EU) No 2024/1325 authorising the use of vitamin B12 produced by Streptomyces adherens CGMCC 21299 as a feed additive for all animals in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Jul 2024
On April 28, 2024, new revised food labeling standards were published on the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette website, effective April 29, 2024.
Jul 2024
On 29 April 024, the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture published draft Regulation No. 24-7598, which proposes to amend Decree No. 3D-225 of 2005 on the quality of cream and cream products, with a feedback period until 14 May 2024, for comments. Key elements include: