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The French food processing sector is valued at $212 billion with over 17,650 food processors from small family owned businesses to some of the largest food companies in the world.

On April 8, 2020 France published its fifth emergency decree banning fresh cherry imports from countries where the use of the chemical dimethoate is permitted in cherry production.

Clusters of COVID-19 cases have been found in workers at three French slaughterhouses since April.

France has no commercial production or field trials of genetically engineered (GE) crops.

More than 70 percent of French household food purchases are made in supermarkets and local smaller discount stores.

On July 25, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment that organisms created through many newer genome editing techniques are to be regulated....

On June 14, 2018, an agreement on the successor to the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) was reached for 2021-2030.

This report provides an overview on the biofuel use mandates in the various EU-28 member states. It supplements the EU-28 Biofuel Annual Report.

On June 14, 2018, negotiators from the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission found a political agreement on the next iteration of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II).

France’s National Assembly passed an amendment banning the use, import and marketing of any food product containing titanium dioxide (TiO2) as a food additive as a component of France’s farm....

The EU Council formally adopted the text of the new Regulation on organic production and labeling of organic products.

Post estimates that 2018 milk deliveries in the European Union (EU) 2018 will increase by one percent over 2017 because of continued domestic and international demand.