How the war in Ukraine has derailed the European Union Farm to Fork initiative — and sparked a debate about what constitutes sustainable agriculture. In March 2020, the EU, unveiled its
Last week the CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union) issued a ruling that is now threatening the beet industry. By ruling that the derogations allowing the use of
As the European debate over food labelling (FoP for Front of Pack labelling) continues in Brussels, criticism of the Nutri-Score system is growing and it is unwittingly uniting in opposition
The European Commission recently launched phase two of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure, EBSI, which intends to use distributed ledger technology to meet the EU’s climate targets. EBSI is the
Amidst heated debate over nutritional and origin labelling for food products in Europe, the European Commission is now undertaking a public consultation on food labels – covering nutrition and origin,
In September, the European Scientist covered the efforts of governments in both Europe and sub-Saharan Africa to institute tobacco traceability systems in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations. In
The groundbreaking documentary Food Evolution offered the general public a science-based introduction to crop biotechnology, revealing how activists attack it and debunking some of the more pernicious myths about GMOs
Something is happening with Covid-19 that the bungled “yes” 2016 referendum campaign didn’t manage to do: making us feel more European! Since Covid-19 struck China, we knew our turn will
While Nutri-Score is the French government’s candidate for a long-awaited front-of-package (FOP) labelling system that the EU one day hopes to implement across its territory, it is far from the
What is striking about Brexit in general and its impact on science in particular is how it will eventually be judged as pointless. Considerable energy is going to be wasted