The Tuscany Region has officially recognised the Maremma organic district. In Tuscany, organic districts are growing quickly. The newcomer enriches Tuscany’s heritage of organic districts, joining Fiesole (the first, born only two years ago), Val di Cecina, Calenzano, Montalbano and Chianti.
There are new developments at Biofach, World Leading Trade Fair for Organic Food. In July 2023, Steffen Waris took on the role of Exhibition Director for the trade fair, reinforcing the team led by Danila Brunner, Executive Director Exhibitions. Brunner will continue
The new World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines to protect children from food marketing (“Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing”) recommend its member countries to implement appropriate policies to curb promotional messages of food and drinks
On 16th December 2022 the Court of Pesaro acquitted all the 23 defendants and the 6 companies involved in the investigation started in 2013 by the Prosecutor’s Office of Marche Region’s County Seat. The prosecution alleged a 32 million Euros fraud
The Vertical Bio investigation had also sullied Suolo e Salute, one of the Italian leading Certification Bodies based in Bologna, as it was responsible of certifying most of the companies involved in the alleged fraud. The decision of the Court
The president of the National Organic Federation FederBio, Maria Grazia Mammuccini launched on the day of the European Organic Day, established by the European Commission and celebrated for the first time this year also in Italy, the cooperation with conventional
At the beginning of September, the Nomisma Research Institute presented a survey, conducted between July and August 2022, on a sample of 290 Italian organic food and wine companies. It emerged that the main destinations in Europe for Italian organic
In the European Union, in terms of agricultural products, more food is wasted than is imported. According to a recent report by the environmental organization Feedback EU, the EU imported almost 138 million tonnes of agricultural products in 2021, while
Bio Bank, the Italian organic food database, in its latest update, identifies ten trends that affect organic food consumption more than others and facilitate its growth. Here they are: 1. the growth of the supply of vegetable substitutes for meat,
Assomela, which represents 58% of the organic apple production in Italy and about 17% of the entire European organic apple production, has been selected by the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) as an expert member of the Organic Food
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