Testimonials

EU Specialty Food Ingredients President

EU Specialty Food Ingredients offers Cargill a platform to exchange and debate key regulatory issues, to build common positions and actions together with other specialty food ingredient manufacturers. This provides for a structured dialogue to the benefit of the specialty food ingredients industry and the sector’s innovations. Besides sharing knowledge and expertise, the EU Specialty Food Ingredients offers the industry privileged contacts with the European institutions and other key opinion makers.  Our membership contributes to managing EU regulatory matters and the reputation of OUR INDUSTRY AND of our ingredients, such as lecithins, pectins, seaweeds, starches, sweeteners and others. As a sector we – through EU Specialty Food Ingredients – joins forces to provide regulators, specialty food ingredient users and consumers a transparent and objective view of the value our industry can bring.

Geert Maesmans, Director Research, Development and Innovation, Cargill Texturizing Solutions 

Member associations

Being a Member of EU Specialty Food Ingredients gives us access to the most up-to-date information on EU activities about food specialty ingredients, both with emails and physical meetings, giving also the opportunity to be pro-active on sensitive issues. Otherwise it would be difficult for our SME member companies to access to such information. EU Specialty Food Ingredients represents shared industry positions at higher levels with EU Institutions. As a National Association, we can forward EU Specialty Food Ingredients position to our National Authorities, having a combined action at EU and national level.

Having a link with other Sector Associations gives us the possibility to share positions on specific issues of common interest that may arise.

Luca Benati, President of Food Additives and processing aids Group of Federchimica-AISPEC

SYNPA, the French food and feed specialty ingredients association, is actively involved in the work of EU Specialty Food, Ingredients as it is crucial for our members, that their interests and the vision of the French industry are promoted at European association level. EU Specialty Food Ingredients is the key player for food specialty ingredients on the Brussels scene. By its position EU Specialty Food Ingredients informs its members on all important decisions and on-going works on strategic issues for the specialty food ingredients industry.

Mélanie Le Plaine-Mileur, Secretary General of Synpa

Member companies

Why is BENEO a happy member of EU Specialty Food Ingredients? Because the specialty ingredient industry as a whole needs a strong voice in Europe in parallel to the general food and drink Industry represented by FoodDrinkEurope. This is especially true as we are on the first row to face specific regulations (Novel Food, Nutrition and Health Claim, Food additive and Enzyme…) about which we need an association to defend the interests of our whole industry… (and not BENEO only) towards the Authorities, the European Parliament and other parties. Our industry has also a high innovation potential which needs to be supported more by the Authorities. Finally, we will be stronger to communicate to the European community what our industry is all about all together than BENEO alone!

Dominique Speleers, Member of Beneo’s Executive Board

Specialty ingredients play a crucial role in assuring Europe’s continued position as a world leader in food quality. But that is not always understood by EU decision makers. All specialty ingredient producers must work together to correct the misperceptions about their products and EU Specialty Food Ingredients is the vehicle for making that happen.

Marie-Laure Empinet, Roquette

Eu Specialty Food Ingredients has an experienced and competent secretariat, which renders respect to the association from the institutions in EU. Eu Specialty Food Ingredients also has a very active membership framework which contributes to the excellence of the association… All of this means that Eu Specialty Food Ingredients is considered an important stakeholder by EU legislators, and as such, comments and proposals from EU Specialty Food Ingredients are considered relevant in “the corridors of Brussels”. EU Specialty Food Ingredients is the trusted source of information and a good home for dialogue on technical and political topics. All this emanates into a strong association within food ingredient stakeholders in Europe, providing access to legislators where we can impact food ingredient-related legislation. It also gives Eu Specialty Food Ingredients respect among other trade associations, so that the association can collaborate to make real impact on legislation under discussion. Finally, membership of Eu Specialty Food Ingredients also provides a complete overview of food ingredient-related legislation that is otherwise hard to obtain in today’s busy schedule.

Huub Scheres, Director Science and Regulatory Advocacy, IFF

New member companies

Being a member of EU Specialty Food Ingredients since mid 2021 we have experienced positive contribution of being connected to a strong association. The main experience from working together in EU Specialty Food Ingredients is based on the regulatory affairs function. EU Specialty Food Ingredients fulfils an important role of making sure we are aware of the dynamics in many issues that may affect our business in the future.

The main benefit for being member is to be in part of in-depth discussions with our peer group, having low threshold access to peer members and representing positions on behalf of EU Specialty Food Ingredients. Also, the professional external materials from EU Specialty Food Ingredients have proven to be helpful. Moreover, it is highly valuable to have the possibility of meeting Commission representatives.

Julie Parisotto, Global Regulatory Affairs Manager, COSUCRA

We  appreciate the summaries EU Specialty Food Ingredients provides on ongoing activities that can potentially affect our business.

There are many email updates – the content and succinct manner in which they present the information is very appreciated. Translation of documents (or most of them) is very much appreciated.

The Members Area of the website contains lots of useful information.

Unai Baigorri Ibarrola, Senior Regulatory Manager – Europe, Kerry