Retailers called to support National Rice Week
Returning for its sixth year, National Rice Week takes place 11-17 September with a new consumer campaign to raise the UK rice sector’s profile. The Rice Association is once again…
Organic Food & Eco Living Iberia sponsors the European Organic Congress 2023
Organic Food & Eco Living Iberia patrocina el Congreso Ecológico Europeo 2023 Organic Food & Eco Living Iberia 2024 patrocina The post Organic Food & Eco Living Iberia patrocina el…
Consumer empowerment and justification of claims: the end of greenwashing?
El actual Reglamento de Cosméticos de la UE no proporciona un medio para identificar sin ambigüedades cuándo los reclamos de un producto cosmético natural u ecológico corren el riesgo de…
“Ecologízale”, a new promotion campaign of the CAECV focused on consumers
El Comité de Agricultura Ecológica de la Comunitat Valenciana (CAECV), entidad encargada del control, certificación, representación y defensa de los productos ecológicos, además de la investigación y la promoción de…
California bill to ban 5 food additives continues to advance
The state's Senate Environmental Quality Committee set a Wednesday hearing on a bill that would affect the entire country's food system. Learn more. New Hope Network Read More
Ecologists in Action, SEAE, SEO/BirdLife and WWF present the manifesto “The Plague of Pesticides”
Las organizaciones Ecologistas en Acción, Sociedad Española de Agricultura Ecológica (SEAE), SEO/BirdLife y WWF han presentado hoy el manifiesto «La Plaga de los plaguicidas» en un acto que ha tenido…
OPTA Europe Forum: focus on measures to boost consumer demand and a more supportive regulatory environment
At the Forum ‘Are we on track to meet 25% of organic food & farming by 2030?’ held on 4th July and kindly hosted by the Representation of the Free State…
Deregulating New Genomic Techniques is a step backwards for biosafety, freedom of choice and consumer information
IFOAM Organics Europe considera la propuesta de la Comisión de desregular las Nuevas Técnicas Genómicas (NGTs, en inglés) como equivocada, peligrosa para la autonomía europea de semillas, y una distracción…
EU rules on green claims and labels: lost in translation?
In the European Green Deal, the Commission committed to tackle false environmental claims and reduce the risk of ‘green washing’. The answer to this commitment lies within a set of…
Defra SFI update signals ‘clear direction of travel’
Organic Farmers & Growers (OF&G) calls recent Defra developments to the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) ‘concrete progress’ and a ‘significant step forward’ for sustainable farming. OF&G welcomes the flexibility offered…