This article originally appeared in World Food Regulation Review, Vol. 28, Number 9, February 2019.
This article aims to present and explain the main topics on the agenda of the forthcoming 51st session of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Additives, taking place in Jinan from 25 to 29 March 2019.
In next month’s
This article originally appeared in World Food Regulation Review, Vol. 28, Number 9, February 2019.
The European Union (EU) succeeded in implementing one of the world’s highest standards of food safety. But each food scandal brings to light new gaps in the legislation and enforcement. After the Spanghero case (the so-called “horse meat scandal”), it
Keller and Heckman LLP’s EU Office is Ranked Band 1 in the 2019 Chambers and Partners Europe Guide in the category of Regulatory: Agro/Food Europe-wide. Additionally, Katia Merten-Lentz continues to attain the prestigious individual band ranking. She is one of only four lawyers to receive this prestigious position in this category.
Along with their
What are the legal pathways that creators of innovative new protein foods need to tread in Europe?
On February 25, the European Commission published a study on new opportunities for the EU plant protein market, write Katia Merten-Lentz and Thais Payan of international law firm Keller & Heckman. The study concluded that the increased consumer
Updated regulations are simplifying the authorization process for traditional foods entering European markets from non-member state countries. In their article, “Nouveaux aliments des pays tiers : un premier bilan encourageant”, which appeared in Les Marchés on January 25, 2019, Katia Merten-Lentz and Caroline Commandeur discuss the new regulations and their potential impact on the food
Written by Katia Merten-Lentz and Oliver Hartmann
At the beginning of this year, the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission (DG SANTE) published its findings in relation to the Fitness Check of the General Food Law Regulation (EC) No 178/2000 (GFL Regulation), which had been concluded by the end of
Katia Merten-Lentz provided her expertise on plant-based meat and cultured-meat for the recently published research paper Meat Analogues: Considerations for the EU. The paper was published by Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, which is a world-leading policy institute based in London whose mission is to help governments and societies build a
Keller and Heckman food law attorney Katia Merten-Lentz was interviewed for the Le Monde article (in French) “Des insectes dans notre assiette, en toute légalité?” which reported on the recent European Commission decision on insect-based food for human consumption confirming that prior authorization is required. Keller and Heckman’s Food and Drug Practice has
With ongoing European efforts to update the General Food Law and increase transparency in the risk assessment process for food products, Katia Merten-Lentz, a legal expert with international law firm Keller and Heckman, discusses the current state of play and looks to the future of food regulation in the EU.
The EU Regulation 178/2002, known
Katia Merten-Lentz was interviewed in the 20 January 2019 Liberation article “La fraude dans l’agroalimentaire est plus discrète qu’un cartel de drogue”. In the article, Katia discusses the issue of food fraud in the EU, from the products which are most at risk to the actions being taken by the European Commission to hold the