Episode 40 of ConsEUmer is out! This week: 🇫🇷 France wants stricter rules for food imports 🇸🇪 Sweden drops restrictions on September 29 🇨🇿 Czech PM Babiš targeted by the EU You can follow Jan Mošovský on Twitter @JanMosovsky. September 9, 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
ConsEUmer podcast / EP22: Junk food ads, Consumer privacy, and Streaming quotas (w/ Fernando Valdés)
This week: 🍔 The EU wants to crack down on junk food ads 💽 Yaël Ossowski presents his new policy note on data privacy 🇨🇿 The Czech Republic drops anti-consumer rules 🇲🇽 Mexican streaming quotas are bad (so are the European ones) (w/ Fernando Valdés) You can follow Fernando Valdés on Twitter @fervaldes_ and the […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP21: Dutch party, Flight to nowhere, and Ad headaches (w/ Fabio Fernandes)
🇳🇱 The Netherlands experiments with parties 🛫 Fred Roeder takes a flight to nowhere 🇨🇾 Cyprus wins its case on halloumi cheese 🖥️ Advertising restrictions online (w/ Fabio Fernandes) You can follow Fabio Fernandes on Twitter @DeFariaeSilva. April 15, 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
ConsEUmer podcast / EP17: Milk fight, AstraZeneca, and the Nanny State (w/ Jason Reed)
In this new episode of ConsEUmer: 🥛 Milk is milk, says the ECJ 💉 AstraZeneca controversy (w/ Fred Roeder) 🇩🇪 Germany reaches CO2 targets because of COVID-19 🇬🇧 Nanny State rules in the UK (w/ Jason Reed) You can follow Jason Reed on Twitter @JasonReed624.
EP11: Meat war, Czech food nationalism, and geo-blocking (w/ Ryan Khurana)
In the eleventh episode of ConsEUmer: 🥩 EU wants to restrict red meat 🇨🇿 CZ wants food nationalism 🍔 Veggie-burger fight continues 🚫 Geo-blocking for streaming (w/ Ryan Khurana) Follow Ryan Khurana on Twitter @RyanKhurana February, 4 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
ConsEUmer podcast / EP7: Irish E-Mobility, Lab Meat, and BREXIT Time! (w/ James Holland)
It’s the first ConsEUmer episode of 2021, still hosted by yours truly. This week on ConsEUmer: -> Hope for e-scooters in Ireland -> Lab-grown meat creates opportunities and challenges -> It’s Brexit time
ConsEUmer podcast / EP4: Airlines in crisis, Labelling food fight, and EU stimulus (w/ Pieter Cleppe)
A new ConsEUmer episode was released last week. This time with Brussels policy analyst Pieter Cleppe, on the latest Euro Summit in Brussels, and on the new EU budget. Other topics in this podcast: -> EU reforms airline slots -> RyanAir opposes bailouts -> Nutri-Score battle continues
The dangers of mould
Mycotoxin contamination is set to become a bigger problem as climate change evolves. In order to prevent food safety and food security, European farmers need adequate crop protection tools…. What do you do when you see a set of mould on the marmalade in your fridge? The unfortunate conventional household wisdom is to remove it, […]
Fight mycotoxin contamination with modern technology
Every consumer will know this problem: you come home from a long trip but the fruits, vegetables, and yoghurt are still in the fridge. “Expiry dates are just an industry trick to sell more food” is a thought that leads some to disregard the mould that has formed on all of these items over time, […]
[Reportage] Amendement am Europaparlament wëll d’Wuert “Veggie-Burger” verbidden
Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg produzéiert, a gouf den 21. Oktober iwwerdroen. De ganze Beitrag fënnt een och hei. Muer stëmmt d’Europaparlament zu engem Amendement of deen deemno wéi Bezeechnungen wéi “Veggie-Burger” oder “Vegan Zosiss” kéint verbidden. Bauereverbänn soen et géif d’Konsumenten duerchenee maachen. Ëmweltschützer halen dogéint. Et ass net déi éischte kéier […]