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The European Commission has published proposals to change the current legislation governing all official controls in the food and agriculture industries. The proposed plans will potentially affect all organisations involved in the production, manufacture, supply and regulation of food, feed, live animals, plants and plant reproductive material.

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Commission proposes revisions to food and feed regulations

BRUSSELS – The European Union plans to restrict the use of three pesticides to better protect dwindling bee populations. The announcement Monday was cheered by environmentalists, disappointed chemical companies and came after the bloc's 27 nations failed to agree on a common stand….

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EU Aims to Better Protect Bees from Pesticides

BRUSSELS – More than 7,000 tests across the European Union have shown that nearly 5 percent of the food products labeled as beef contained horse meat, but there is no danger to public health, officials said Tuesday. The tests showed that the veterinary anti-inflammatory drug phenylbutazone, or bute, was present in about .5 percent of the horse meat, the EU said in a statement. Bute is banned for human use because in rare cases it causes severe side effects, but veterinary experts say there is little risk from consuming small amounts of the drug in horse meat….

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EU: Test Show No Safety Issues with Horsemeat

In February the European Commission asked all member states to carry out a survey of beef products to check for the presence of horse DNA. These results have now been published.

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Results of Europe-wide beef product survey published

ROME — European scientists are criticizing a decision by Italy's government to allow a handful of children to be treated in public hospitals with an experimental stem cell therapy….

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Scientists Slam Italy’s Untested Stem Cell Therapy

The FSA is today publishing further details of the European Union sampling programme that was agreed by member states and announced by the FSA last week.

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Update on EU sampling programme