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FURAN INQUIRY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN food industry has been asked to supply information to an official European Food Safety Authority inquiry aimed at discovering products most prone to contain the carcinogen furan.…
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW EU food safety advisory body has been set up by the European Commission; the Advisory Group on the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health will including in its membership the food production and processing industries, retailers and farmers.…
EU OLIVE OIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has launched WTO disputes proceedings with Mexico over its imposition of anti-subsidy countervailing duties on EU exports of olive oil. Brussels claims the tariffs break world trade rules.…
EL PRADO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the purchase from French company Alliance Agroalimentaire of Spanish dairy product companies Grupo el Prado Cervera and Central Lechera Vallisoletana (CLV) by rival Lactalis Iberia, also of Spain, (owned by Belgian holding company BSA).…
GM TESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’s Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements has made available samples of GM materials recently approved for sale in Europe, namely GA21 Roundup Ready maize (IRMM-414) and mixtures containing NK603 maize. * http://www.irmm.jrc.be/…
GM - WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DECISION by the WTO to hold a scientific examination of claims that the EU has been breaking trade rules by banning imports of GM foods will delay a decision in this disputes case until March 2005, or later.…
GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added seven traditional food products to the EU register of protected geographical indications: Spanish beef Ternera de Navarre, Carne de Vacuno del País Vasco and Carne de Cantabria and veal Carne de la Sierra de Guadarrama, Portuguese sausages Farinheira de Estremoz e Borba, Italian Kiwi fruits Latina and Valle del Belice and France’s Noix du Périgord nuts.…
BSE RISKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK that American cattle are infected with BSE is high, the European Food Safety Authority has concluded, and without changes to US rendering or feeding practice, “the probability of cattle to be infected with BSE persistently increases”.…
JELLY MINICUPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission could impose a blanket EU ban on the sale of jelly mini-cups, the gelatinous confectionary blamed for causing dangerous choking in young consumers. This follows advice from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) that any mini-cup made with a gel-forming additive “could cause choking and not just in children”.…
FRUIT AND VEG
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT on the common market organisation of the EU fruit and vegetable markets has asked whether further reforms are required, including the system’s basic rules. It also asks how supplies to new EU member countries can be improved and how quality products can be encouraged generally.…