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Karin Verzijden
The heat was on today in the European Parliament (EP). The reason for that was that the new Novel Foods Regulation was put to vote in a plenary session. In the debate…
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Erik Vollebregt
White smoke again! After a long summer following the partial general approach on 19 June in which there was not much to report the Council now reached a general approach on the…
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Karin Verzijden
Recent research from the Erasmus medical centre (Netherlands, Rotterdam) suggests that certain medicines might be taken up better by patients when administered with Coca Cola instead of water. In short, the researchers…
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Karin Verzijden
On 11 September 2015 new legislation amending the current Commodities Act (in Dutch: Warenwet), partly entered into force. Under the new legislation the maximum administrative fine to be imposed on Food Business…
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Karin Verzijden
The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has been pretty active this Summer. Following up on previous enforcement reports on nutrition claims, it recently published such enforcement report re. both…
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Karin Verzijden
Voedingsmiddelenbedrijven zijn trots op hun producten en willen dat graag naar buiten brengen. Maar hoe breng je de gezondheidsvoordelen van een voedingsmiddel wervend en begrijpelijk over op consumenten, op een manier dat…
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Erik Vollebregt
Yes we can! We have a general approach for both the Medical Devices Regulation and for the IVD Regulation, agreed in the EPSCO Council last Friday. The press release also conveniently bundles…
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Erik Vollebregt
Upon closer examination of the two texts for the MDR and IVDR it became clear that the scrutiny proposals in both regulations are actually identical (sorry for the earlier confusion). Accordingly, there are…