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MERCURY - FISH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PREGNANT women and small children could suffer mercury poisoning from swordfish, tuna and other large predatory fish the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned.…
OLIVE OIL AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for EU member states to be given the right to pay all aid olive oil production subsidies as direct payments, unrelated to the olives grown and processed. The European Commission has proposed limiting these direct payments to 60 per cent of all subsidies.…
CANADA POULTRY BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the import into the EU of live poultry, poultry meat and products from Canada, following its bird flu outbreak.…
CEREALS INFO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is publishing online information on the EU cereals market. *http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/markets/crops/index_en.htm…
ORGANICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved an organic production regulation insisting that products marketed in related terms, such as ‘bio’ or ‘eco’ are produced according to existing specified environment-friendly processes. It also provides for inspections of imported organic products and non-EU producers.…
COMMISSION - OIE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been awarded official observer status at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation.…
FAO - MEAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AROUND one-third of global meat exports – 6 million tonnes – are currently being restricted by animal disease outbreaks, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed, maybe losing world trade up to US$10 billion if import bans extend throughout 2004.…
EUROSTAT - ILLNESS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIUM is the EU salmonellosis hotspot says the latest comparative figures from Eurostat. In 2001, 104 cases were recorded in Belgium per 100,000 people, compared with Britain’s 29 cases and an EU average of 40.6. Greece had fewest infections (2.9/100,000).…
EU FOOD & FEED LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a proposed regulation tightening and harmonising EU food and animal feed controls. As it informally agreed amendments in advance with EU ministers, the law is now expected to be rubber-stamped. One change insists that national governments erect “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” sanctions to breaches of these controls and another says relevant information held by food authorities must be publicised quickly, except data “covered by professional secrecy”.…
COURT OF AUDITORS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIGHTENING accounting controls on European Union agricultural subsidies will be a key priority for the EU Court of Auditors this year, says its 2004 work programme.…