Sustainable, healthy food for all. That is the banner under which the European Commission has placed the food safety programme, to which it proposed on Thursday 7 June to allocate €1.68 billion over seven years from the draft EU multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2021-2027 of 2 May last (see EUROPE 12013).
This programme will be one of the pillars of the new integrated single market programme, presented the same day by the Commission, to strengthen consumer protection and rights and...