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YOGHURT WATER
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN food scientist has discovered a technique that would stop consumers from finding that murky liquid at the surface of their yoghurt. The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s John Lucey has found a simple alternative to adding stabilisers and pectin, the costly technique most often used by commercial yoghurt-makers who want to lessen their product’s whey content.…
EFSA BUDGET
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NO solution has yet been reached to the problem over the freezing of half the European Food Safety Authority’s budget for 2003 by the European Parliament. The new EFSA executive director Geoffrey Podger told journalists in January this was worrying but “several things have to be done at once and it’s a mistake to concentrate on one.”…
IVORY COAST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POWERFUL disused radioactive source left in a small unguarded bunker at the Ivory Coast’s University of Cocody (in the capital Abidjan) has been has been secured by the International Atomic Energy Agency, specialists from France and the host country.…
RESEARCH PROPOSALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST formal call for proposals under the European Union’s Euro 16.2 billion Sixth Framework Programme for research have been issued; they include a Euro 167 million budget for studies into food quality and safety, especially on the food chain, disease epidemiology, traceability and animal feed.…
PODGER INTERVIEW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The new European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will attempt to re-build public confidence in food safety throughout the 15-member European Union after the BSE and other scares by convincing consumers that the scientific assessment of risk is in the hands of a fully independent body with no interest in “cooking the books.”…
FISH FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg
Introduction
Europe
Cuts to EU catch quotas
New sources of fish
Affect on fish producers
Wild alternatives to cod
Farmed cod
North America
USA – Healthier local stocks
USA – Demand up
USA – Fish imports
Canada – Farmed fish exports
Canada – GM issues
Australasia
Australia – New wild sources
Australia – Aquaculture
Australia – Wild fish innovation
Australia and New Zealand – sustainability
South Africa – Export increase and conservation
Japan – Local and regional supply
Japan – Maintaining quality
Japan – Non-Asian sources
Introduction
ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…
HEMP CARS
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH government backed scientists have launched a pioneering research project that could see natural plant fibres being used to manufacture car body shells. Biomat is a four-year project using various forms of flax and hemp fibre, as well as willow, and is being funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.…
FDA GENERIC RULING
BY PHILIP FINE
A US federal judge has ruled that an approval letter with a delayed effective
date given by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be considered merely a tentative approval and does not give a manufacturer the legal right to begin
marketing a medicine.…
BIOTRADE FUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWITZERLAND has donated US$2.5 million to a new international BioTrade Facilitation Programme funding the development of food exports from under-exploited natural resources in poor countries. The scheme is run by the UN development group UNCTAD and the International Trade Centre.…
BACON CAMPAIGN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to spend Euro 4.4 million on a Danish-French programme to promote sales of European Union bacon in Japan. Coordinated by Danske Slagterier, the Danish Bacon and Meat Council, the three-year campaign should stress the quality, hygiene, food safety, nutrition, labelling, animal welfare or environment-friendliness of EU bacon.…