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Fedima 17
General Assembly European Baking Ingredients
Market Report 2022

President

National Associations Companies
Secretaries Board Advisory
General Committee
Committee

Marketing & Technical Sustainability
Communications Committee Committee
Committee

Expert Groups
• Additives
• (Process) Contaminants
• Enzymes
• Labelling
• Sourdough

These focus areas are driven a wide range of topics related paper entitled ‘Understanding
forward by an ambitious work to additives, contaminants and sourdough’ in February
programme with tasks being labelling to enzymes, sourdough, 2022, presented during the
conducted by three committees, wholegrain, and CLP. 8th International Sourdough
integrated by representatives of Symposium in Bolzano.
thirteen National Associations that • Coordination of internal
form Fedima. papers. Striving to provide The Sustainability Committee is
its members with a deeper the newest addition to Fedima’s
The Technical Committee is understanding of key issues, the workstreams, reflecting the bakery
organised into Expert Groups (EG), Technical Committee regularly sector’s commitment to sustainable
which follow all policy and regulatory develops internal documents development. Its main aim is to serve
developments in food safety, labelling, and organises training as a platform for exchanging ideas
and workers’ safety. It provides an sessions for the members. An and best practices on sustainability,
important forum for members to internal paper on Functional as well as evaluating and monitoring
discuss difficulties in the industry Ingredients, for example, was the actions and commitments
and find solutions collectively, such as recently developed to provide undertaken by the sector.
the consequences of developments in members with internal guidance
Ukraine on the food sector. In fact, the on understanding the use of • Sustainability webinars.
Committee informs members about functional ingredients. In December 2021, Fedima
sanction packages adopted and maps organised a members-only
different approaches endorsed at • Elaboration of external papers webinar on the EU Farm to
EU level, among other tasks. on EG topics. Drawing on the Fork Strategy. High-level guest
expertise of its members, the speakers were Dirk Jacobs
• Following policy and regulatory Committee develops external Deputy DG and Director
developments. The Technical documents on topics of interest Consumer Information, Nutrition
Committee is committed to members and the wider and Health, FoodDrinkEurope,
to following all policy and industry. These papers aim to and Ruben Burnsveld,
regulatory developments share Fedima’s position and Department Director EMEA
in food safety, labelling and recommendations externally RSPO. In June 2022, Fedima
workers safety. To do so, it is with key stakeholders. The held a webinar on sustainable
organised into expert groups members of the Sourdough packaging to address the
which meet regularly and cover expert group drafted an external urgency to act as a sector.

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