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Food safety

The EU's food safety policy covers food from farm to fork. It is designed to guarantee safe, nutritious food and animal feed, high standards of animal health and welfare and plant protection, as well as clear information on the origin, content, labelling and use of food.

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Policies

  • Labelling and nutrition

  • Genetically modified organisms (GMO)

  • Novel foods

  • Chemical safety

  • Biological safety

  • Food waste

  • Pesticides

  • Animal feed

  • Animal health

  • Food improvement agents

  • Semen, ova, embryos

  • Food fraud

  • Food and feed safety alerts

  • Animal by-products

  • General food law

  • Fitness check of the food chain

  • Future of EU food safety

  • Official controls and enforcement

  • International affairs

  • Health and food audits and analysis

  • Better training for safer food

  • EU reference laboratories

  • Animal welfare

  • Traces: Trade control and expert system

  • Live animals

  • Animal products

  • Movement of pets

  • Animal diseases

  • Animal identification

  • Zootechnics

  • Veterinary border control

  • Plant reproductive material

  • Plant health and biosecurity

  • Plant property rights

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