Dear readers,

At our VLOG Forum in early July, we learned first-hand that EU consultations on the deregulation of new genetic engineering (NGT) have stalled. This gives the food industry an opportunity to once again highlight its key concerns, such as maintaining the requirement for full genetic engineering labelling.

The common claim by many proponents of deregulation that such labelling for NGT is too costly and hardly feasible was recently refuted in detail by VLOG Managing Director Alexander Hissting in a guest article for Tagesspiegel Background.

VLOG will take advantage of this newly gained political window of opportunity by, among other things, holding a panel round on the effects of the planned deregulation on “Ohne Gentechnik” and organic products on the opening day of this year's Anuga food fair in Cologne at the beginning of October.

We look forward to seeing you there and wish you a wonderful summer!

Your VLOG team