Food Safety

Taking stock of achievements thus far and future outlook

Today, Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, in charge of Health and Food Safety, will address the members of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste at its 11th meeting, which will take place in a hybrid format. This is the last meeting of the current Platform before its re-establishment with a new membership, starting 2022.

2020 Annual Food Fraud report: Fight against food fraud in Europe continued despite the COVID-19 pandemic

Today, the Commission is publishing the 2020 annual report of the EU Agri-Food Fraud Network (EU FFN) and the Administrative Assistance and Cooperation system for Food Fraud (AAC-FF).

The report presents the EU FFN activities, highlighting certain requests for cooperation and provides statistics from the AAC-FF – EU reporting tool managed by the Commission, which enables members of the network to exchange information on suspicious non-compliances and potential intentional violations of the EU agri-food chain legislation.

New EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub launched on the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, 29 September 2021

Today, the Commission is launching the EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub website in order to mark the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW).

The Hub is a "one-stop-shop" for stakeholders who take action to fight food losses and food waste. This new digital platform aims to foster the exchange of knowledge and experience and to help disseminate the different initiatives carried out to tackle food losses and food waste, in order to inspire and drive further action on-the- ground, across the EU and beyond.

The 2020 report on the use of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed published today shows that a total of 3862 notifications of food or feed risks were reported by the Member States to the European Commission last year.