Please don’t eat your Christmas tree, Belgium urges public

Please Don’t Eat Your Christmas Tree, Belgium Urges the Public
The country’s food agency warned against using evergreens in food after the city of Ghent suggested an unusual form of recycling: spruce needle butter.
Belgian City Suggests Residents Eat Their Christmas Tree
A city in Belgium suggested its residents eat their Christmas tree, but health officials warned it could be dangerous.
Don't eat your Christmas tree, Belgium's food agency warns
The Belgian Federal Food Agency issued the odd warning after Ghent's local authorities suggested people could reuse pine needles in recipes to avoid waste. View on euronews
Belgian Authorities to the Public: Please Don’t Eat Your Old Christmas Tree
Yes, the Belgian government was recently forced to issue an odd PSA warning its citizens not to eat their old Christmas trees.
Sweden says Christmas tree needles safe to eat -- after Belgian warning
A day after Belgium warned against eating Christmas trees, Swedish officials said that the needles can be safely used to make butter and other products -- as long as the trees are young and wild. But Anneli Widenfalk,
Belgium’s food agency pleads with public not to eat their Christmas trees
The agency was forced to issue the bizarre warning after the council in Ghent City launched a campaign last Thursday encouraging people to recycle their Christmas trees to reduce waste. It included a suggestion of making flavoured butter and soup from the pine needles,
Not for dinner: Why Belgium has warned against eating Christmas trees
Christmas trees are not supposed to end up on your dinner table. Well, if you were thinking otherwise, Belgium’s food agency has issued a warning asking people not to eat conifers
Do not eat your Christmas tree: Belgian agency
Belgium’s food agency issued a public health warning as the festive season wrapped up on Tuesday: Do not eat your Christmas tree. The unusual message came after the city of Ghent, an environmentalist stronghold in the country’s East Flanders region,
Don't eat your Christmas trees, Belgians warned
Belgium's food agency has had to issue a health warning after a local council encouraged people to reduce waste by cooking with their Christmas trees.
'Please Don't Eat Your Christmas Tree' Says Belgium's Food Agency
Asked what they thought of the idea, the reply from Belgium's federal agency for food chain security, AFSCA, was a resounding "No". "Christmas trees are not destined to enter the food chain," it said in a statement.
Belgian food safety authority: Do not eat Christmas trees
Belgium's food safety agency issued a warning to residents to not turn their Christmas trees into food after a city's recycling recommendations included using the needles in recipes.
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Don't eat your Christmas tree, warns Belgium food agency
Some things may go without saying, but just in case... Belgium's food agency issued a public health warning as the festive ...