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JELLY MINICUPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has widened its ban on jelly minicups containing the preservative konjac to include other types of this confectionary containing certain seaweed or gum additives. Brussels fears their ability to choke children and has ordered manufacturers and importers to recall them.…
FOOD ALLERGY REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Agency (EFSA) says a list of potentially allergenic confectionary ingredients within new European Union (EU) labelling legislation (directive 2003/89) is justified by the risk of cereals containing gluten, eggs, peanuts, lactose, other nuts and sesame seeds causing allergic reactions.…
BANANAS - EAST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has created a special additional banana import quota for the European Union (EU) of 300,000 tonnes until December 31, taking account of the accession of 10 new member countries on May 1.…
MOZAMBIQUE APPROVAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has admitted Mozambique to the EU’s sugar market access agreement with producing countries in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) block.…
RAPEX - LOLLYPOPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has banned the import, export and marketing of any luminous sweets, ordering their destruction. This follows a five-year-old child swallowing a battery attached to a Flam’pop lollypop with a luminous sword, reported the European Commission’s RAPEX consumer protection information service.…
SUGAR PRICES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has agreed guaranteed prices for sugar traded with India and its ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) partners until June 2005. They are for raw sugar: Euro 52.37/100 kilograms; and white sugar: Euro 64.65/100 kilograms.…
WALNUT CONFERENCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL walnut symposium has been scheduled in Naples, Italy, from November 7-9, with experts considering the nut’s uses and its propagation. Basic and applied research will be presented. *http://www.walnut2004.sistemacongressi.com/…
OXFAM - SUBSIDIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
OXFAM claims six European Union sugar processors hold export subsidy receipts of Euro 819 million, when the EU pledged just Euro 800 million for Iraqi reconstruction. The companies are Beghin Say (France), Sudzucker and Nordzucker (Germany), Britain’s Tate and Lyle, Belgium’s RT and Denmark’s Danisco.…
CANADA CANCER DRUGS
BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW therapy that involves combining two cancer drugs simultaneously has been hailed as a major breakthrough in treating tumours resistant to chemotherapy. Scientists at McGill University, in Montreal, have treated mice suffering from lymphoma with rapamycin, an antibiotic, and a traditional chemotherapy drug called doxorubicin.…
BIRD FLU PANDEMIC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BIRD flu outbreak that has paralysed global poultry markets could spark a related deadly human influenza pandemic, for which preparations must be laid, a World Health Organisation (WHO) summit has concluded. “We have seen how many countries were preparing for terrorism and bioterrorism and we wish to point out that Mother Nature is the biggest bioterrorism of all,” said participant Dr Angus Nicoll, director of England & Wales’ Public Health Laboratory Service’s communicable disease surveillance centre.…