INDUSTRY WELCOMES COMMISSION’S TESTS TO STOP DUAL QUALITY FOOD PRODUCT SALES

THE EUROPEAN food industry is supporting the European Commission’s bid to ensure food brands do not offer variable quality versions of the same product in different parts of the European Union (EU). Indeed, it is backing the introduction by the EU executive of new testing methods for regulators, that are due to be rolled out in April. But European food sector representatives deny that should tests reveal different recipes are used in different markets they indicate some poorer markets get inferior quality. Announcing on February 2 the methodology being ...


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