The UK’s Food Standards Agency has entered into a dialogue with the European Commission’s directorate general for health and consumer protection regarding the way that dietary health, nutrition and food issues are handled.

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Speaking at the FSA’s open board meeting, the food standards watchdog’s chair Dame Deirdre Hutton said that she had attended a meeting at DG Sanco (European Commission Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection) on 13 September.


Hutton said this was a positive and constructive meeting, in which the Commission expressed general satisfaction with the agency’s approach to risk-based enforcement. The meeting explored the question of proportionality and all the difficult ‘judgement issues’.


Hutton revealed that the EC was interested in the FSA’s stance on front-of-pack labelling with regard to the pan-European measures it is planning on the issue.


Hutton concluded by expressing a hope that this meeting will lead to improved cooperation in the future.

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