프랑스 농업 및 식품 인사이트

Ukrainian analytical portal Graintrade, citing Oil World, reports that in 2025 the level of sunflower seed processing in the European Union (EC-27) dropped to 7.4 million tons, which represents a decrease of 1.6 million tons compared to 2024 (9.0 million tons) and is the lowest level in nine years. The main reasons for this drastic drop are the reduction in sunflower seed production in the EU, the low activity of agricultural producers in selling the oilseed raw material, and the low margins in sunflower processing, which has forced factories to switch to processing the more profitable canola and rapeseed. Oil World noted that this transition was most noticeable in the Netherlands, France, and Bulgaria. The increase in interest in rapeseed ...

Five babies were hospitalized in France for ingesting infant milk that should have been withdrawn from the market due to suspected contamination with the toxin cereulida. In the case of these babies, who have already been discharged, sources from the Ministry of Health and Agriculture indicate that "there is certainty" that these were batches subject to a health alert, while there are another six babies -also discharged- about whom there is doubt regarding the ingestion of the affected product. The authorities assured that "the situation continues to evolve," but noted that viral infections such as gastroenteritis may also have played a role in the hospitalization of the babies. Several EU countries, including France, have issued health alerts related to certain brands of formula milk due to their probable contamination by cereulida, which can cause intestinal problems such as diarrhea and vomiting. This scandal affects companies such as Nestlé, Danone, Lactalis, Vitagermine, ...

The French government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, has decided to lower the permitted limit of the presence of the toxin cereulida in response to the scandal of contaminated infant milk affecting major brands worldwide. "In the context of the international alert related to the presence of the toxin cereulida in an ingredient from a single factory in China, which has led to the withdrawal of infant milk in several countries, the ministry has decided to apply a stricter limit threshold to all French manufacturers in order to reinforce the health safety system," the ministry detailed in a statement. The measure, announced on Friday evening, specifies that the threshold will now be 0.014 micrograms of cereulida per kilogram, instead of 0.03. This latter was based "on the lowest value available in the scientific literature," from the work of the Netherlands Institute for Public Health (RIVM), the French ministry detailed, but the new threshold "allows us to go even further in ...