All food sold in Germany must be safe and controlled. This also applies to imported products. Safety is guaranteed by the responsible food business operator. Compliance with legal requirements is checked in official food inspections. For example, additives and novel foods must be approved, and harmful residues of pesticides are prohibited. Labelling should also make […]
What’s not prohibited is allowed: freedom of production
Freedom of production and marketing In principle, foodstuffs are not subject to any official approval or authorisation requirements. The same applies to the production or import of food. This principle is however restricted by individual statutory regulations, for example the Novel Food Regulation or the EC Genetic Food Regulation. In addition, there are product-specific regulations […]
Horak Attorneys: Your Wine Law Legal Experts
Europe is famous for our wonderful wine and for our rich wineries. The sweetness and the good quality are main characters of our wine-culture. But is our wine really “sweet” or is it “sweetened”? Anyone who wants to sell an officially certified quality Riesling is not allowed to sweeten the produced wine with sugar. According […]
Nutri Scores: no more errors
Food labelling – no more errors Are you planning to label your own product and starting trading it? Have you heard about trend statements? origin and organic labelling? or what about Nutri-Scores? Today we would like to talk to you about this latter. The Nutri-Score provides a quick orientation as to which foods have the […]
German agricultural law
The agricultural and farming legislations involve, apart from a bundle of European statutory requirements, a variety of individual areas of law that are connected with farming law. In our law firm, we are experts in company successions cases related to agricultural matters; additionally, we manage special provisions in the agricultural production and the subsequently distribution. […]