Delays to an update of the EU food labelling framework have contributed to a proliferation of voluntary schemes and claims that confuse rather than inform consumers, the European Court of Auditors ...

The European Commission is expected to favour a series of new food labelling recommendations set to pile additional costs onto food and drink makers. A bold list of EU-wide recommendations aims to ...

European consumer rights group Foodwatch advocates for the adoption of Nutri-Score across the bloc. Credit: Adriana Iacob/Shutterstock. European consumers are at risk of “being fooled” by a growing ...

The final phase of post-Brexit food labelling on products being shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland has been introduced. The “Not for EU” labels, an element of the Windsor Framework, have ...

The top European Union court ruled late last year that certain organic U.S. products should not be eligible to use the EU “organic” logo if they’ve been fortified with vitamins or minerals. But EU ...

The rapid growth of functional food is the big food story of 2025. But how are health claims, integral to such a market, ...

EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the term "veggie burger" and limit food descriptions – such as steak, escalope and ...

German Agriculture Minister Alois Rainer opposes a potential EU ban on the labelling of plant-based food with terms for ...

If beef is what's for dinner, European Parliament lawmakers want to make sure there is no confusion about what people are eating. On Wednesday, the lawmakers voted 355 to 247 to define meat as "edible ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. The idea of making the U.S. more like ...