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Food and feed safety in brief

The European Union’s food and feed safety framework combines sustainability objectives, consumer protection, animal health rules and plant health standards.

Together, these policy areas help ensure that food placed on the EU market is safe, properly regulated and aligned with wider environmental, public health and agricultural objectives.

Food and the EU Green Deal

This section focuses on the Farm to Fork strategy and the EU’s effort to build a food system that is fairer, healthier and more environmentally sustainable. It connects food policy with climate action, biodiversity, resource use and long-term food resilience.

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Food Safety

This area covers the EU rules designed to guarantee a high level of food and feed safety for consumers. It includes topics such as alerts and traceability, nutrition labelling, biological and chemical safety, novel food, food improvement agents, feed rules, food waste and agri-food fraud.

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Animal Health, Welfare, Diseases

This section brings together the EU policy framework on animal diseases, animal health, welfare standards, trade in live animals and animal products, veterinary border controls, identification systems, pets, reproduction rules and related traceability mechanisms.

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Plants

This area covers the EU framework for plant health, phytosanitary standards and the regulation of plant products. It includes themes such as pesticides, plant protection, genetically modified organisms and other rules aimed at safeguarding plant resources and agricultural quality.

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