Press releases

Food companies must live up to their promises by ending the practice of marketing unhealthy food -to children. Otherwise regulation will be the only way forward to curb this pernicious practice that is fattening children’s waistlines. That is the main message of a new campaign called ‘Food marketing to children: game over?’ launched today by BEUC.

The European Consumer Organisation and its Slovak member ZSS met the Slovak First Secretary of State of the Ministry of the Economy, Mr Rastislav Chovanec, to present their expectations for the first ever Slovak EU Council Presidency.

The European Parliament can take action to curb antibiotic resistance in a key vote tomorrow. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) urges MEPs to make sure farmers only give antibiotics to sick animals, not to healthy ones.

To curb antibiotic resistance farmers must only give antibiotics to sick animals, not to the healthy ones, according to an EU Parliament vote yesterday which tightens a Commission text regulating animal medicines.