Blog For Cosmetic Professionals — Food Imitation

  I try to keep an eye on Rapex reports as they are a good way of keeping abreast of how regulations are interpreted across Europe.  In the last couple of weeks there has been a case of the Spanish equivalent of trading standards ordering a product to be taken off the market because of their resemblance to food.  They are quoting an EU directive - this is the one from 1987. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:31987L0357&from=EN It's a directive so it is up to individual countries to enact national legislation to address it, which are supposed to be consistent across the EU.  The...