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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the Iraqi regime faced potential invasion, the United Nations-run oil for food programme has continued to operate healthily, with revenues for the week ending February 21 totalling US$338 million from 11.9 million barrels. The UN’s Office of the Iraq Programme said exports averaged about 1.7 million barrels a day.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WILL the creation of a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to serve all 15 EU countries help the cause of food safety in Britain? Some say that our own history of food safety has not been inspiring in recent years and in a number of areas lags behind that of our European partners.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has attacked the lifting of a ban on Vietnamese poultry and shrimp exports into the European Union (EU) because of concerns about the use of controlled antibiotics. MEP’s accused the European Commission of acting in haste, without adequately checking whether controlled nitrofurans were still being widely used by Vietnamese shrimp and poultry producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a rule of thumb that when trade grows, so does crime. So it is no surprise that counterfeiters have taken advantage of the growth in commerce within the European Union to sell an increasing number of fake goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMMENTS are being sought on proposed reforms to global guidelines on the operation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems. They have been drawn up by the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius, with particular focus being thrown on adapting the advice to the needs of small and new businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMERS may know them as the high priests of capitalism and expect them to preach against agricultural subsidies, but a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has laid bare doubts that a truly effective farm support system has yet been invented, let alone implemented.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has thrown doubt on the legality of national food quality marks within the European Union (EU), through a judgement ruling that a ‘Markenqualität aus deutschen Landen’ (quality label for produce made in Germany) scheme breaks EU freedom of trade rules by excluding products made out of its home country.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FAST food meat and high-speed Internet have teamed up. McDonald’s Restaurants and Intel Corp. have launched a joint pilot marketing campaign that offers customers high-speed wireless Internet access in 10 Manhattan, New York, McDonald’s restaurants. The firms plan to expand the deal to include hundreds of other locations by the end of this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ADAGE ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink’ applies in many walks of life and it is certainly relevant to the ongoing World Trade Organisation’s negotiations on liberalising market access for services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…