法律新闻BITE：2026年3月食品和饮料季刊

The New European CommissionStrategy on Life Austria – Nextfor Legislation Restricting HFSS The UK government has announced that it will align with the EU’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation from mid-2027, following trade negotiations. Various legislation will come under the scope of the agreement, including legislation Pesticide and biocide regulations, including around matters such as maximum residue levels and authorisation of activesubstances, will also come within the scope of the new SPS agreement (which commentators view as significant, because We reported in December’s edition of newsBITE that theHouse of Lords had reported on exemptions for brandadvertising from UK advertising restrictions on “lesshealthy” foods, and the Advertising Standards Agency The agenda for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board Meeting for March includes an update on how the FSA is preparing for a UK-EU SPS agreement. The report notes that the proposed timeline is “ambitious” and will require both the FSA andindustry to “move at pace to be ready”. It also recognises that the practical implications of an SPS agreement will involvechanges across several areas, including “future legislative alignment, approaches to managing incidents, the way in whichcertain border processes operate and how market authorisations are handled”. Perhaps heralding similar changes in Austria, a recentstudy from the Centre for Nutrition Advance Knowledgein Food and Farming examined the exposure of Austrianchildren to high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) food and drinkadvertisements on TV and the changes in advertisingfollowing the implementation of Austria’s self-regulatory It will be particularly interesting to monitor “market authorisations”, which essentially means applications to authoriseproducts such as additives, flavourings, food contact materials, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), precision bredorganisms and novel foods, among others. Of course, such applications in the UK post-Brexit have needed to be made Those UK businesses that already export to one or more EU countries will be well placed ahead of the changes, becausetheir products already need to meet EU requirements to be lawfully marketed in those countries; those EU businesseswho supply to Great Britain will likely welcome this news, as it will avoid the need to consider any potential divergence.However, those who only supply domestic markets in Great Britain may need to adapt processes, update supply chains, The study found that the advertising rate for foodadvertisements increased throughout the dayand culminated during child/teen peak viewingtimes. Emotional themes were more common inadvertisements that were not permitted, compared topermitted advertisements. The study concluded that The government is conducting a “call for evidence” to understand business impacts, which closes on 23 April. Potentiallyaffected businesses can share their views through a link on DEFRA’s overview of the reasons for the changes. Artificial Intelligence (AI) meetsEnforcement of EU Food Law! The European Commission has launched TraceMap, anew AI platform designed to help national authoritiesdetect food fraud, contamination and other agrifoodrisks more quickly. Drawing on data from the RapidAlert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), the Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) and the Alert andCooperation Network (ACN), TraceMap is intended helpthe authorities identify links between operators and The UK government has confirmed that there will be a public consultation in 2026 to apply an updated NPM (which wasprepared in 2018 but has not yet been applied (NPM 2018)) to advertising and promotions restrictions. This is perhapsfrustrating for those businesses that have reformulated products to be outside of the scope of HFSS/less healthy The drive to modernise the 2004/2005 NPM is related to the evolution in the last 20 years on dietary guidance, especiallyin relation to sugar reduction and the importance of dietary fibre. The differences between 2004/2005 NPM and NPM2018 are set out in the introduction to the Consultation on the 2018 Review of the UK Nutrient Profiling Model (which “•the adjustment of the energy criterion in line with food labelling regulation intake of 8,400kJ (2,000kcal) as a result,nutrient components such as saturated fat and sugars were recalculated as a proportion of food/total dietary energy •the replacement of the total sugars component of the NPM 2004/5 with 5% of total dietary energy for free sugars •the adjustment of the fibre criterion as a proportional change from the existing UK NPM 2004/5 value to the currentUK dietary recommendation for fibre •the replacement of the sodium criterion with salt” There are some concerns as to the effect of the changes under NPM 2018 on beverages, in particular. The British SoftDrinks Association highlights mixed messaging (e.g. the range of products captured by the new model includes fruit juice,on the basis of natur