LONDON — Go ahead and recycle your Christmas tree. But please, Belgian authorities say, don’t try to eat it. The country’s federal food agency delivered that unusual warning this week after ...

Jan. 9 (UPI) --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.

Belgium's food agency issued a public health warning as the festive season wrapped up Tuesday: don't eat your Christmas tree. The unusual message came after the city of Ghent, an environmentalist ...

Belgium’s Federal Food Agency on Tuesday warned people to not eat their Christmas trees after a city council suggested recipes to reuse conifers following the holiday season. The agency was ...

Belgium's Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain warned residents that Christmas trees are not edible after a town's website included using conifer needles to cook on its list of ways to ...

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 ...