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EFSA NUMBER 2
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority wants a specialist to fill a new position of deputy executive director – head of science. Meanwhile, the agency has chosen experts to fill its scientific committee and panels; 1,050 scientists had applied for membership.…
STEERING COMMITTEE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Scientific Steering Committee – offering the European Commission expert food safety advice – has held its final meeting, to be superseded by the European Food Safety Authority. The committee advised there should be no great concern about BSE cases in Britain after the imposition of the reinforced feed ban in 1996.…
COD STOCKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released its long-term strategy to rebuild EU cod stocks. It will begin with low catch quotas and monitoring, especially in fisheries under serious threat of collapse. Brussels wants sticks to recover within five to 10 years.…
VITAMIN REVIEW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Scientific Committee on Food is to review the recommended upper levels of daily intakes of individual vitamins and minerals that are usually safe. The review will cover vitamin A (retinol and b -carotene), vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, thiamin, riboflavin, and other ingredients.…
CODEX GUIDELINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD food standards organisation Codex Alimentarius has asked governments to comment on draft health guidelines on additives and contaminants by September 30, including draft maximum levels for lead in fish, tin in canned food, plus cadmium levels in rice, soy beans, mollusks and peanuts.…
SWINE FEVER TESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’s Community Reference Laboratory will evaluate a new classical swine fever discriminatory test, enabling pigs with a vaccine to be distinguished from those with the disease. It would also boost trade in pigmeat in affected areas and encourage the use of vaccines to protect pigs.…
NESTLE UZBEKISTAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is planning to lend Nestlé Uzbekistan Euro 2.5 million to expand its operations.…
EU CHEMICALS PAPER
BY ALAN OSBORN
NEW proposals to overhaul and modernise the European Union’s (EU) regulatory system for chemicals, announced by the European Commission, may prove less restrictive than feared for producers of polymers and other chemicals used in the production of adhesives and sealants.…
ALASKA LATEST
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US House of Representatives has put Alaska drilling back into its
latest energy bill while, on the other side of Congress, the Senate has
backed away from the contentious issue. Last month, a majority of House
members defeated a series of amendments that would have exempted the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge from the bill.…
WASTE FOOD OIL
BY PHILIP FINE, in Toronto
A PROCESS that can convert old chip oil and other food waste into inexpensive bio-diesel will soon be available to food and catering companies. Canada’s Biox Corp. says its first bolt-on bio-fuel processing plant should open this summer in Oakville, Ontario.…