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.

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. Belgium's federal food safety agency (Afsca) issued a public health warning Tuesday against eating pine tree needles after the environmentally minded city of Ghent posted tips for recycling the conifers into dinner table items.

Belgium's food agency has warned people not to eat their Christmas trees after the city of Ghent suggested reusing pine needles in recipes as a way to reduce waste. The country's Federal Food Agency (FASFC) issued the unusual seasonal health warning on Tuesday after Ghent's local council launched a campaign last week urging people to recycle their Christmas trees in different ways - including eating the conifers.

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

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,

"Eat your Christmas tree" - the unusual request from the city of Ghent to its residents at the end of the Christmas season has brought the food