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Within the EU Ecolabel Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 66/2010), the European Commission carried out a revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for ‘growing media, soil improvers...

Abstract This addendum of the JRC Science for Policy report “Front-of-pack nutrition labelling schemes: a comprehensive review” provides an update of the former publication regarding the effects of front-of-pack nutrition...

The European Commission established a High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) to assess the needs and options for strengthening science–policy interfaces for improved food systems governance1. The HLEG concluded that food...

For many farmers, pest control in crops still heavily relies on chemical pesticides. The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can financially support farmers to reduce...

The Commission has amended the data requirements and criteria for the approval of micro-organisms (the biggest group of biological pesticides) to accelerate approval and authorisation procedures and to increase the availability of biological...

The Commission presents the key measures to reduce the risk for human health and nature, deriving from the use of pesticides in Europe.

The sustainable development goal #2 aims at ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Given the numbers of food insecure and malnourished people on the rise, the heterogeneity of nutritional statuses and needs...

Like many other quality attributes, food safety tends to degrade after harvest, but unlike losses in quantity and many quality attributes, food safety losses are...

The statement that the continuation of widespread global hunger is unacceptable and that individuals have a right not to suffer from hunger and malnutrition has been accepted and proclaimed in many international instruments...

The objective of the Voluntary Guidelines is to provide practical guidance to States in their implementation of the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, in order to achieve...