SAFE joins the Belgian Fédération des Services Sociaux - FdSS (Social Services Federation) in the #FrigoVide (“empty fridge”) movement. With the Healthy Meal project, SAFE strives to combat food poverty. 🍽️ 👉 Join the campaign acesse.one/6ySSs

New proposed rules on crops from new genomic techniques (NGTs) threaten organic food. By removing traceability and labelling, they undermine organic farming and limit consumer choice. We call for coexistence measures to prevent cross-contamination, as proposed by the European Parliament. #NGTs #GMOs

The SISTERS project concludes with a final event showing the solutions it has developed to reduce food waste. 👉Register here: sistersproject.eu/sistersfinal... #AgriFood #EUProjects

Second meeting of the Italian multi-actor platform of the #GISmart project at the Italian Ministry of Agriculture in Rome! Deputy Director Luigi Tozzi brought in the voice of consumers to this Horizon-funded project focused on strengthening the sustainability of Geographical Indications (GIs).

This #WorldPulsesDay2026, we celebrate the benefits pulses bring to our health and the planet. The EU funded project LIKE-A-PRO uses peas and fava beans to develop new alternative protein products. Discover more👉 l1nq.com/8rGWE @ec.europa.eu

New proposed rules on crops from new genomic techniques (NGTs) threaten organic food. By removing traceability and labelling, they undermine organic farming and limit consumer choice. We call for coexistence measures to prevent cross-contamination, as proposed by the European Parliament. #NGTs #GMOs

2025 was a big year! • We met the Japan Federation of Consumer Organisations. 🤝 • We launched BiteWatch.📱 • Our annual conference hit 150 participants.🌱 • We joined Healthy Food Healthy Planet.🥗 • We wrapped up @ZeroW_EU and @R3PACK_EU.🔁 More: sl1nk.com/q23UW

SAFE is thrilled to welcome @bioconsomacteurs.org as a new French member! 🤝 Bio Consom’acteurs is dedicated to promoting organic, fair, and local agriculture. 🌾 🔗 Check out their work on their website: bioconsomacteurs.org

SAFE is thrilled to welcome CERDEN as a new Belgian member! 🤝 The mission of CERDEN is to improve health and quality of life through healthy eating and the preventive and therapeutic use of foods, micronutrients, and plants. 🧬 Website: cerden.be

#WorldCancerDay is a reminder that prevention starts with knowledge. Education and awareness empower individuals and communities to the spreading of non-communicable diseases. This is the goal of our project #Preventia. #SAFEadvocacy #HealthAwareness

SAFE participated in ROSETTA's project meeting and networking event in Bratislava on 28–29 January. 🤝 The partners presented multi-country pilots to reduce food waste linked to food marketing standards. ♻️ #EUresearch #FoodWaste #PilotProjects

@unicef.org & @who.int launched the Child & Adolescent Health Strategy 2026–2030 to tackle rising infectious diseases, mental health challenges & childhood obesity.🧒 At SAFE, we empower kids through #Food4Inclusion to spot unhealthy food marketing and decode food labels. 🎯

HFSS foods, high in fat, sugar and salt, are marketed to children every day: online, near schools, in shops. Self-regulation has failed. SAFE calls for EU-wide action to protect kids: warning labels, ad restrictions, and awareness campaigns. #KnowYourFood #SAFEadvocacy

We are excited to be moderating the panel on food standards, innovation, food safety and traceability, and food loss and waste at #Gulfood2026, the world's biggest event on food. 🌏 We have presented SISTERS, our project on reducing food loss and waste across the food supply chain. ➡️ 🍽️

We regret the endorsement of the trilogue deal on #NGTs by the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament. This undermines the integrity of organic food production, threatening its very existence. We call on the EP to reconsider its initial position with safeguards to protect organic production.

🎯 We are in Dubai at Gulfood, where we are presenting the main outcomes of our four-year SISTERS project on food loss and waste reduction, ending in April. Innovations developed include: ♻️ new bio-based packaging, ↔️the short-chain platform Regioneo, smart containers, and labelling solutions.

We call for the trilogue deal on new-genomic techniques #NGTs to be rejected by the European Parliament, ahead of tomorrow’s vote in the @envi.europarl.europa.eu. ✋ It foresees lower traceability requirements for category 1 NGTs. This threatens the very existence of organic food production. 🚨

The TealHelix project has completed Work Package 2 (WP2). The findings show that consumers need credible sustainable claims.🌱 SAFE leads WP7, conducting expert interviews to create integrity guidelines for clearer, more trustworthy sustainable food labelling.🤝 #HorizonEurope

🎓 Tomorrow is the #InternationalDayOfEducation! At SAFE, we stand for equal access to nutrition education. We empower children, especially in vulnerable areas, to read food labels, spot tricks and choose better. Because knowledge is power. #KnowYourFood #HealthAwareness #SAFEadvocacy #Food4Inclusion

Canada requires a warning label on HFSS foods (high in fat, salt, or sugar). ⚠️ SAFE’s Preventia project launched BiteWatch, an intuitive app that scans food products and quickly shows if your product is high in these ingredients.📱 👉Download here: tinyurl.com/4mna8bw2

Ursula von der Leyen signed the EU-Mercosur deal.🤝 SAFE calls for stronger import controls to uphold EU food safety standards and fair competition.⚖️ The EU must lead by example and end derogations for banned pesticides.🚫

The levels of #PFAS in drinking water remain dangerously high in several European member states. They have been linked with several health risks. SAFE welcomes the new binding requirement of systematic reporting of PFAS levels by member states.

SAFE Watch Newsletter is out! ✨ Discover SAFE's newest publications, and read the latest news, EU regulatory updates, and scientific articles on: ✅ Food safety & health ✅ Sustainable food systems 👉 tinyurl.com/yc758sex

The UK has enforced their advertising restrictions on foods high in fat, sugar, and salt (HFSS) to protect children from unhealthy food marketing.📺 SAFE is involved in the Healthy Food Healthy Planet (HFHP) movement, aiming for food justice and corporate accountability. 🍽️

Researchers from the SISTERS project have created biodegradable packaging films by incorporating artichoke leaf extract (ALE) into PLA, a compostable plastic. 🌿 📄 Check out the science behind it: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SISTERSproject#EUFoodPolicy#EUGreenDeal

Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide

A valuable exchange at the 𝗦𝗔𝗙𝗘 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 in Brussels. Policymakers, experts and citizens discussed food safety, sustainability and consumer protection, and we officially launched BiteWatch, our new food literacy app.

1⃣ We are deeply concerned by the amendments concerning plant protection products #pesticides contained in the #omnibus package. Unlimited approval periods and lack of clarity around the science that will be used for re-assessments in particularly worrying.

2⃣ This opens the door to industry-led research being used in assessments, creating a clear conflict of interest.

3⃣ The scope for targeted derogations of pesticide bans is broadened in this new legislation. This weakens the protection of human health and the environment. Recently SAFE co-signed an open letter to the European Commission asking for measures to avoid this loophole. #omnibus

1️⃣The European Commission's Plan for #CardiovascularHealth falls short of protecting public health. We are disappointed that the current proposal refuses to put forward any mandatory taxes or levies on #UPFs. Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death in the EU.

2️⃣ Ultra-processed foods #UPFs are one of the main drivers of cardiovascular diseases and non-communicable diseases - #NCDs. We call for mandatory taxes on UPFs, targeting production and imports, based on maximum limits of UPF-linked additives and ingredients.

3️⃣ This would encourage product reformulation. The model is based on the UK model to address sugar-sweetened beverages, which achieved a 30% drop in sugar in the composition of sweet beverages between 2015 and 2018.

4️⃣ This system would *not* target the final consumer.

LEAK on 9th #Omnibus: Commission is about to publish a massive betrayal to human health and the environment: ☠️ Giving unlimited approval for #pesticides! 😵‍💫 Who will pay that bill, Ursula? #EUAgriFoodDays 💀 Who will profit: Big Polluters like #Bayer & #BASF: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...

The Austrian government has introduced a legislation to combat “shrinkflation,” a concealed practice where product contents are reduced while prices remain unchanged. 💶 SAFE calls for the adoption of a EU-wide legislation. 🏷️ More information: safefoodadvocacy.eu/austrian-gov...

We call on the ENVI Committee of the @europarl.europa.eu to reject the compromise exempting new genomic techniques from the so-called category 1 from labeling and traceability requirements. It puts organic food production at risk and leaves consumers in the dark. We support the original EP proposal.

🚨 Alarming news! The EU may soon allow pesticides to remain approved indefinitely, with no deadlines to check for new harms. SAFE urges EU Commissioners to protect citizens, farmers and nature - not industry profits! 💶 #ProtectMyPlate#EndToxicPesticideEra

Today is World Soil Day!🌱 ⚠️95% of our food depends on healthy soils. Yet 60% in Europe are degraded. SAFE urges EU member states to strongly implement the EU Soil Law to protect this essential resource for sustainable food systems. Source: @fao.org

📬Preventia’s September Newsletter is out! 👇 tinyurl.com/szbvvprp 🥗Stay ahead with the latest studies, news, events, and EU regulatory updates on NCDs, nutrition, and health 👉To subscribe: tinyurl.com/4uhdzhhm #HealthierTogether#PreventNCDs#healthyeating

Under this compromise, category 1 NGT plants would be sold alongside organic plants, without distinction, with organic producers technically unable to avoid NGT presence in their produce, leaving both producers and consumers in the dark. Patent problems are left unresolved, too.

We oppose the political agreement to exempt certain non-genomic techniques #NGTs from the legal requirements currently applicable to #GMOs, as reached today between the @consilium.europa.eu and the @europarl.europa.eu. It undermines the integrity of organic food production and consumer choice.

🎙️ In the latest episode of our podcast, Floriana Cimmarusti, Secretary General of SAFE, emphasises that for SAFE, ‘natural’ should mean products free from synthetic ingredients, GMOs, and NGTs. 👉 Find the full episode on Spotify: shorturl.at/P5cS5

SISTERS developed home compostable packaging made with artichoke extract. 🔗The science behind this innovation has just been revealed here: sl1nk.com/v8oXs #SISTERSproject#EUFoodPolicy#EUGreenDeal

✨ Over 200 participants joined SAFE’s 10th Annual Conference to discuss food safety, consumer protection, food waste, and sustainable packaging. 🙏 We are grateful to all our speakers and members who joined us, and to all participants online and onsite. See you next year! @ec.europa.eu

🎙️ In our latest episode, Frazer Goodwin, former Advocacy Coordinator at EPHA, shares a strong message: the European Commission isn’t doing enough to protect consumers when it comes to food sold on the market 🍽️. 👉 Find the full episode on Spotify: shorturl.at/P5cS5

Annual Conference 2025: final remarks from our Secretary General Floriana Cimmarusti. We are thankful for the insights and lively debates that guests and participants have brought in. See you next year!

Discussing the benefits of packaging reuse, with the expert panel of R3PACK. Plastic reuse and plastic substitution through fibre-based packaging are key parts of this 3-year-long Horizon project.

Our Deputy Director Luigi Tozzi, wrapping up the panel on geographical indication foods from the consumers' perspective, with the participation of SAFE members.

🚨 It’s launch day! 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 — our new food scanning app — is now available 📲 Scan products, access clear info, and make more informed food choices. Designed for food literacy and inclusion. 🔗 Now on the App Store & Google Play. #BiteWatch #FoodTransparency #SAFEconsumers