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Freshfel welcomes new framework for EU promotion programmes
You can download the full press release in PDF form by clicking here. Freshfel Europe, the European fresh fruit and vegetable association, welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament of the new framework for the promotion of agricultural products. The...
Unified EU Programme to boost children´s fruit, vegetables and milk consumption?
You can download the full press release in PDF form by clicking here. Following the publication of the Commission’s legislative proposal for the merger of the School Fruit Scheme (SFS) and the School Milk Scheme (SMS) (1), and while welcoming the Commission’s...
EU fruit and vegetable sector launches task force to coordinate participation in European research and innovation projects
To download this press release in PDF form, please click here The European fruit and vegetable sector is ready for the European Innovation Partnerships (EIP) and the new Horizon 2020 policy. These were recently started by the European Commission to stimulate research...
New policy approaches to increase fresh fruit and vegetable consumption
You can download the press release as a PDF document here. Food and nutrition experts urged European decision makers for a novel approach to agriculture and food policies as existing ones are currently inappropriate to translate the recognised beneficial assets of...
Freshfel calls for focused efforts on fruit and vegetable promotion in the prevention of noncommunicable diseases
Freshfel Europe welcomes the WHO Vienna Declaration on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) in the Context of Health 2020, launched on 5 July 2013. The recognition of low intake of fruit and vegetables as the main food-related risk factor of developing NCDs,...
Freshfel questions appropriateness & timing of the CAP school schemes consultation
Freshfel Europe has sent a letter to Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Cioloş, questioning the appropriateness and the timing for the Commission consultation on the CAP schemes providing agricultural products to school children, open to consultation until 22 April....
New Freshfel Consumption Monitor shows stagnating consumption trends
Freshfel Europe has released the newest edition of its ‘Freshfel Consumption Monitor’, analysing trends in the production, trade and supply of fresh fruits and vegetables across the EU-27. Overall, 2011 experienced a slight 2.6% raise in the consumption pattern to 382...
