European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced on Thursday 27 July that guidelines on how to apply European food safety rules would be issued in September in order to bring an end to differing standards in the quality of foodstuffs.
The Commission, he said, is not treating this issue as being of minor importance. “We’ve decided to issue guidelines in September on how to interpret the food safety legislation”, he stated. The aim is to make it possible for member states and...