11 Apr, 2024 Cross-contamination warning: only in case of real risk By Lisanne Steenbergen You will find the warning "May contain [allergen]" less and less often on food labels. "May contain traces of [allergen]" is a thing of...
10 Apr, 2024 DreamJuice - medicine or health product? By Ebba Hoogenraad Do you suffer from insomnia? DreamJuice is the solution according to the website; no more need for medications against sleep deprivation....
15 Dec, 2023 Semi 'Climate Neutral' pork in the Marley Spoon box By Ebba Hoogenraad So good that Marley Spoon includes pork in its meal box that meets the Climate Neutral certification label. The packaging shows the...
14 Dec, 2023 New rules for chocolate designations By Lisanne Steenbergen The days are getting shorter and the temperature drops. Time for delicious hot chocolate milk, a piece of a chocolate tree or a handful...
23 Nov, 2023 ALERT: no advertising of unauthorized novel food By Myrna Teeuw Food industry beware! The Advertising Code Committee (ACC) distributed an Alert (in Dutch) because unauthorized novel food was being...
23 Nov, 2023 From July 1, 2023: levy on single-use plastic (SUP) By Lisanne Steenbergen Plastic soup in the Mediterranean Sea and porpoises mistaking a piece of plastic for a tasty fish. Or closer: overflowing trash cans in...
23 Nov, 2023 Keeping addicted to sugar? Taste 80% by your nose? Twice: no. By Ebba Hoogenraad Following a complaint from Cosun Beet Company, Air up must stop a YouTube video for its product air-up in which Air up speaks very...
23 Nov, 2023 Legal framework in case of prohibited medical claim By Ebba Hoogenraad No, in the case of a food, dietary supplement or cosmetic product one may not say that it helps with a disease. So no ‘helps against...
23 Nov, 2023 Vegan Old Dutch candy? By Lisanne Steenbergen On the front of a package of La Bonbonnerie butter wafers is the designation ‘vegan’. Good news for vegans you might think, they can now...
23 Nov, 2023 'Serving suggestion' is not a magic formula By Myrna Teeuw Many food packages include a ‘serving suggestion’ (aka ‘serving tip’). But what does this mean? The Board of Appeal outlines two ways in...
23 Nov, 2023 Do you know the foreign speciality: beef jerky? By Lisanne Steenbergen Korean kimchi, South African braai, Moroccan tagine and ceviche from Peru. For delicacies from world cuisine, you no longer have to...
23 Nov, 2023 No added sugar ... By Ebba Hoogenraad Just a reminder: the nutrition claim 'no added sugar' means that the food contains no additional sugar in the recipe, i.e. no mono- or...