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Food and Beverage News and Trends - June 2025 #3
This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. Comment on proposed FDA method for ranking chemicals in food for post-market assessments. The FDA is...

Food prices pushed up by hot weather hitting harvest yields, say UK retailers
Britain’s largest retailers are warning that food prices are being driven up by hot weather hitting harvest yields, as the latest UK heatwave pushes temperatures close to record levels. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said rising fruit and...
EU-Streit helping small-scale Sepik fisheries
THE EU-Streit PNG (Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea) programme is transforming small-scale fisheries in the Sepik region through a full value chain approach that supports fishing communities from...
Europe close: Stocks give up early gains to finish mixed
The Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.4% to 541.37, with losses of between 0.3% and 0.5% registered in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Zurich. However, markets in Madrid and Milan edged high on reports that Santander is among the bidders that have submitted a...

Germany: Protest and tribunal oppose Gaza genocide, state repression
On Saturday, around 500 people demonstrated in Duisburg against the genocide in Gaza and the repression directed at those who express solidarity with the Palestinians. Following the demonstration, those affected gave testimony at a public...

‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: A French region has banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?
One quiet Saturday night, Sandra Wiedemann was curled up on the sofa when a story broke on TV news: the water coming from her tap could be poisoning her. The 36-year-old, who is breastfeeding her six-month-old son Côme, lives in the quiet French...

Zucchini: A nutrient-dense superfood gracing modern cuisine
Though often treated as a vegetable, zucchini is technically a fruit that originated in Central and South America. The modern variety was developed in Italy in the late 19th century and became popular globally. Zucchini is low in calories and high...

Rick Steves’ Europe: A cheese-lover’s Europe
Rick Steves When I'm traveling, I become a cultural chameleon. I love a good pilsner in Prague, red wine in Tuscany, and a cheese course in France. For a cheese-lover, savoring Europe means savoring its cheeses – they're not only part of the...

Halal, Hazelnuts, and Hysteria: The EU’s Most Absurd Food Fight Yet
The highly ‘diverse’ French port-city of Marseilles these days is one of the main entry points for illegal substances being smuggled into the continent of Europe—no longer merely dangerous drugs like heroin and cocaine, but also forbidden Muslim...

Avoidable chronic diseases are Europe’s deadliest killers, says Eurostat data
New data from Eurostat show that around 1.1 million deaths per year in Europe could be avoided through smarter public health policies targeting alcohol and tobacco, or better-quality medical care. According to new figures from 2022 released by the...

Irish food investment group buys Germany’s Munsterland
The German firm, founded more than a 100 years ago, is a market leader in non-carbonated ready-to-drink beverages for international brands. Its iced coffees, protein drinks and natural energy teas are sold in more than 20 countries. It has been...

Official warning for holidaymakers as Europe heat hits record highs
A ‘heat dome’ over much of Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Greece is bringing extreme temperatures that are forecast to remain over 40C in the coming days. Already Spain has recorded a new record high for June, with 46C...

Michelin Stars: How a tire company became the world’s biggest food critic
Picture early 20th-century France: dusty roads, fewer than 3,000 cars in total, and a country where hitting the highway was a daring adventure. Enter brothers André and Édouard Michelin – tire manufacturers with a dream.In 1900, they launched the...
Infrasity Engineers a New Era of Developer-First Content, Scaling SaaS Adoption Across the US, EU, and Israel
VMPL New Delhi [India], July 1: Infrasity, an engineering-led go-to-market and technical content accelerator, today announced its expanded services for early-stage, developer-first B2B SaaS startups across the United States, Europe, and Israel....

PM Anwar’s first working visit to Italy from July 1-3
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is scheduled to undertake a three-day working visit to Italy, his first to the country, according to a statement from Wisma Putra. The statement said that the visit, from July 1 to 3, is at the...
Which cooking oil should I use to reduce my carbon footprint?
NEW YORK – A splash here, a splash there. You might not think your cooking oil matters much for the climate and the environment. But it does. Farming accounts for about one-third of global carbon emissions. And, according to a major study...

Irish people living in 'heat dome' Europe reveal drastic plan if temperatures continue past 40C
Irish people living in Southern Europe say they will consider moving home if temperatures continue to rise every year. Warnings have been issued in Italy, Greece, France, Spain, and Portugal as some areas have seen sweltering conditions above 40C....

Pembrokeshire business that went viral on TikTok among fastest growing in Britain
Hair Syrup has been named the 13th fastest growing private company in Britain in the Sunday Times 100 index of Britain’s fastest-growing private businesses. The company, based in Fishguard and Goodwick, is also the second fastest growing business...
FTSE 100 Live: Food price inflation in focus as Sainsbury's...
7.24am: Shop price inflation returns Shop price inflation returned last month, figures from the British Retail Consortium and NielsenIQ show, with a 0.4% rise in June compared to a year ago, after declining in every month so far this year. Food...
Catenary failure disrupts high-speed rail traffic in Spain
MADRID, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A power failure in the overhead catenary system disrupted high-speed train traffic between Madrid, Toledo, and Andalusia, Spain on Monday evening, leaving multiple trains stranded and causing significant delays. The...