A public consultation is open until 6 August on the future revision of the EU food hygiene regulation (Regulation EC 852/2004). The European Commission, which initiated this process on 9 July, is awaiting the maximum number of comments from parties concerned on this initiative, which is expected in the third quarter of 2020.
The objective is threefold:
. to improve food safety in the EU by aligning EU standards with the new international standards (WHO Codex)—which is a matter of...