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Turkey Novel Food Regulation has been published as a draft for the public consultation on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (the “Ministry”)…

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) published a new guidance on Good Manufacturing Practices for the Production of Ready-to-eat Unpasteurised Fermented Plant-based Products to assist producers to produce safe products on 23 Septemper 2021.

Feed additives may not be put on the market unless authorisation has been given following a scientific evaluation.

Protecting the Origin of Foodstuffs in the European Union - Indications of origin and trademarks as intellectual property tools   Abstract The European Union (EU) has established two different systems for the protection of the origin of foodstuffs and agricultural products: on the one hand, there is the system of protected designations of origin (PDO) and...

Abstract The current paper provides a rendering in Turkish language by Aylin ŞuleSongül of the written version of the Judge Nelson Timothy Stephens Lecture presented by Bernd van der Meulen at University of Kansas School of Law (USA) on the EU Regulatory approach to GM foods. The legal systematic analysis provides a general background on…

The draft Turkish Regulation Concerning Food Irradiation  is open for public consultation until 23 June 2019. The draft was prepared based on 1999/2/EC and 1999/3/EC. Accessible at https://www.tarimorman.gov.tr/GKGM/Duyuru/367/Gida-Isinlama-Yonetmelik-Taslagi-Goruse-Acilmistir

Abstract This article was written by Aylin Şule Songül and Elif Selin Cila and mainly focuses on describing the general legal framework concerning protection of traditional food in the Turkish jurisdiction and the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock’s (Ministry) generalized policy of traditional food. Özet Makale Aylin Şule Songül  ile Elif Selin Cila tarafından…

“The Certain Foods Ingredients, Claims and Novel Food Commission” is being established by the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. This development may suggest that there is likely to be increased regulation of novel foods, however, no concrete statements of intention have, as yet, been made neither by the Commission nor the Ministry of Agriculture…