Prohibiting the use of certain additives in the production of certain foodstuffs

OBJECTIVE: to authorise the Member States to derogate from the various directives on additives in order to protect the particular methods of production of foodstuffs regarded as traditional which were manufactured within their territory. SUBSTANCE: the proposal for a decision authorised certain Member States to retain in their legislation prohibitions on the use of categories of additives in the production of the corresponding foodstuffs listed in the annex to the directive. The Member States and foodstuffs concerned were as follows: Germany: beer; France: traditional French bread, preserved truffles, preserved snails, goose, duck and turkey preserves ("confit"); Austria: "Bergkäse"; Finland: "Mämmi". �