Do claims of better health on food improve diet? Encouraging consumers buy healthier food products to improve diet! Food industry uses health claims and symbols on food packages to help inform consumers to make a healthy choice, but do these work? CLYMBOL (Role of health-related claims and symbols in consumer behaviour), a project, funded by…
FENS 2015 – 12th European Nutrition Conference
12th European Nutrition Conference The 12th European Nutrition Conference – FENS 2015 (Federation of European Nutrition Societies) will be on 20-23 Oct, 2015 Berlin, Germany. The conference will communicate up to date science to help Europeans keep a healthy lifestyle. EUFIC will chair the ‘Behaviour Change symposium – From science to implementation’ , Oct 21st.…
Report on consumption of antimicrobial agents
ECDC/EFSA/EMA first joint report The ECDC/EFSA/EMA published the first joint report on an integrated analysis of the consumption of antimicrobial agents and occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from humans and food-producing animals. The report will inform the European Commission’s action plan against the rising threats from antimicrobial resistance and the data from the report…