Leticia Lizardo

WTO Appellate Body Rules Against Chinese Export Restrictions
Duane W. Layton,Leticia Lizardo,Paulette Vander Schueren, February 22, 2012
On January 30, 2012, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) circulated its decision on Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials (WT/DS394/AB/R; WT/DS395AB/R; WT/DS398/AB/R). The initial dispute was brought in 2009 by the United States, the European Union, and Mexico...

New EU Food Labeling Regulation Published
Leticia Lizardo,Sébastien F. Louvion,Jean-Philippe Montfort, November 30, 2011
Regulation (EC) No. 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers (“the Regulation”) was published on 22 November 2011 in the EU Official Journal. The Regulation contains the new EU food labeling rules thereby repealing the nutrition labeling (90/496/EEC) and food labeling...

EFSA Publishes Final Guidance on the Risk Assessment of the Application of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies in Food and Feed Chain
Leticia Lizardo,Sébastien F. Louvion,Jean-Philippe Montfort, July 18, 2011
After the public consultation on the scientific opinion regarding the draft guidance on risk assessment of the application of nanoscience and nanotechnologies in the food and feed chain, the final version of the document was published on the 10th of May 2011...