SMALL BUSINESS DOMINATED FOOD SECTORS STRUGGLE TO COMPLY WITH EU LAW, CONFERENCE HEARS
October 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA)-hosted conference has heard how national food sectors dominated by small businesses have real problems implementing European Union (EU) food hygiene laws. At a two-day meeting in Parma, Italy, lawyers representing the European food industry, food safety regulators and consumer organisations heard that even EU regulation 178/2002 on food safety was proving tough to enact, even though it defines general principles. "Some member states are finding it difficult to implement the new rules ...
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