Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) has fined Solgar Poland €260k (PLN1.2m) after the authority found the supplement firm guilty of price-fixing within the Polish market.
Global food and nutritional ingredients supplier DSM continues to make substantial investment in Eastern Europe with the opening of its new extended manufacturing facility in Poland.
As 2021 enters February, there’s no let-up in the products flagged by European authorities as a men’s supplement, weight loss capsules and a hemp-containing honey fall under the microscope this month.
Poland’s Chief Sanitary Inspectorate is to launch a notification system to ‘improve supervision’ of businesses to meet notification requirements of dietary supplements and infant formulas.
Polish authorities continue to bring its supplement guidelines up to date with the addition of maximum amounts permitted for vitamins, minerals, caffeine and white mulberry preparations.
The investment will go to improving facilities and increasing employment for the Polish juice, sauce and pasta manufacturer, already one of the largest in Eastern Europe.
Polish health and competition authorities have sent warning letters to 315 supplement companies as a first step in a multi-agency crackdown on the misleading marketing of supplements.
Growth has slowed in the Polish food supplemets market as prices have risen following years of solid growth but forecaster PMR expects growth to spike again in 2017.
Russian authorities are set to readmit Polish dairy exports,
according to unconfirmed reports appearing in the Polish press last
week, but will this be enough to satisfy overseas investors?
asks Tom Armitage.
Countdown to the integration of 10 new member states in Europe this
April begins under the aegis of the Irish presidency. For
manufacturers, a clear understanding of the marketplace in these
countries will be vital to pitching the...
