This final issue of 2024 reports on recent EU-Mercosur technical negotiations on a new Partnership Agreement; proposals to clarify testing methods for Trichinella in pork; proposed pesticide MRL changes notified to the WTO SPS Committee; and the latest monthly report on non-compliant food imports i…

Highlights include upcoming increased import controls on certain products from Bangladesh, India, Madagascar, Rwanda, and Vietnam, as well as changes to the list of countries permitted to export animal products to the EU. We also report on latest developments concerning the EU Deforestation Regula…

This issue includes new regulations on food additives and food safety controls, and reports on the latest developments regarding implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation. We provide summaries of the October TRACES and RASSF reports, and information on the important final public consultatio…

This issue highlights the latest EU approvals of organic control authorities/bodies, and findings of non-compliant food imports. It also includes decisions not to renew approval of tritosulfuron and metribuzin, and the latest novel food and geographical indication approvals PDO and PGI. The EU prop…

This issue reports on recently published changes to MRLs including for thiacloprid; and authorisations of GMOs, a novel food, and a protein hydrolysate for infant formula. New methods of sampling and analysis for checking the characteristics of olive oil, and the management of rice tariff quotas, a…

This issue reports on the EU's proposed delayed Deforestation Regulation, country risk "benchmarking", fish tariff quotas tied to sustainability, and the EU-Guinea-Bissau Fisheries Partnership Agreement. It also covers the fourth list of recognised organic control bodies, antimicrobial compliant co…

This issue highlights a new annual survey on unfair trading practices, an opportunity to gain an understanding of how non-EU operators are affected; a new AGRINFO resource on how countries are responding to the EU Deforestation Regulation ; a Regulation clarifying rules on mustard allergen labelli…

This issue includes proposed bans of the flavouring 4-methyl-2-phenylpent-2-enal, and of herbal preparations containing hydroxyanthracene derivatives. Countries that are members of the World Trade Organization have opportunities to comment on both proposals. The EU has put forward a further list of…

This issue includes the latest organic control bodies authorised by the EU to certify organic production in non-EU countries. The EU proposes to allow organic production of de-alcoholised wine, and to clarify the requirements for certain animal products to enter the Union. There are opportunities t…