ESA and EUPPA (European Potato Processors’ Association) sent a letter on the setting of MLs for acrylamide in processed potato products to DG SANTE (EC) and Member States ahead of the EC working group on contaminants.

The aim was to reiterate our concerns about the potential impacts and unintended consequences for the European potato industry if MLs for acrylamide were to be introduced for processed potato products, including potato fries and crisps. For more information please contact Andrew Curtis (andrew@esasnacks.eu) or Silvia Tombesi (silvia@esasnacks.eu).

The ESA Sustainability report 2022-2023 is now available on our website here and on the Flipping Book platform online. This report is a document of reference demonstrating the sector’s commitment to actively support the transition to sustainable food systems. We would like to thank members who have contributed to this report by sharing inspiring initiatives and commitments.

We are now rolling out our communication campaign on ESA social media channels Twitter and LinkedIn. We will regularly post new content in the coming weeks and months to sustain the campaign and showcase members’ concrete commitments and achievements to date.

We strongly encourage you to help us promote the report by forwarding the link to the report to important stakeholders in your network and interacting with the content we post on our social media channels using the hashtag #MakingSnackingMoreSustainable. We thank you for your support!

After many postponements, the European Commission intends to present on 22 March the proposal for a Regulation on the substantiation of environmental claims by means of the environmental footprint of the product/organisation (green claims) to combat ‘greenwashing’. The proposal, announced since 2020 was previously expected on 30 November 2022 as part of the second ‘Circular Economy’ package.

As part of its efforts to explain the benefits of food processing, FoodDrinkEurope (FDE) published recently a position paper on “ultra-processed foods”. The paper is complemented by a comprehensive Q&A on food processing on their website. For more content on this topic, you can also consult a series of insightful articles about the benefits of processed foods here.