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Online grocery retail, although off to a somewhat slow start in Germany, offers promising opportunities for food producers and marketers.

Germany’s private label grocery market topped $123 billion in 2018 - 45 percent of total grocery sales in Germany.

With nearly 83 million of the world’s wealthiest consumers, Germany is the largest market for food and agricultural products in the European Union.

Germany has presented a plan to phase out glyphosate and terminate its use in Germany by December 31, 2023, as part of an “action program for the protection of insects.”

On September 5, 2019, the German Government introduced a voluntary animal welfare label for pork products.

Although Germany does not require labeling of non-GMO food products and animal feed, the nation’s voluntary “Ohne Gentechnik” (GMO-free) labeling program is gaining momentum.

The Federal Cabinet has approved the new German Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy (DART 2020) on May 13, 2015.

The German Parliaments has unanimously voted against the cloning of animals on May 8. 2015.

After a record jump of milk production in 2014, the increase of output is expected to decline in 2015 due to slower export demand...

The international conference “GMO-free Europe – Future Opportunities and Challenges” took place in Berlin May 6-8, 2015.

Germany is by far the biggest market in the European Union with good prospects for U.S. food products like tree nuts, wine, processed fruits and vegetables, fruit juices and others.