EC PUSHES FOR FAST-TRACK POWERS ON ADDITIVES
October 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is pressing MEPs and ministers to award it by Christmas new powers over changing European Union (EU) rules on food additives. It has asked for special 'comitology' powers to amend future a EU regulation on "the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods", currently under discussion. This would allow Brussels to make later changes to the law, without asking the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament for permission, as is usually the case with food safety laws. The ...
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