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SLICEING/GRATEING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU geographical designations rules protecting brands such as Parma ham and Gran Padano cheese do not insist that such products should be grated, sliced or packaged in the region where they are made, a European Court of Justice judge has recommended.…
CANCER GUIDE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHOLE oat products and foods containing psyllium will lower cholesterol levels and reduce heart disease, says the American Council on Science and Health in a new booklet studying health claims of functional foods. They disagreed that dark-green leafy vegetables containing lutein reduce risk of eyesight degeneration.…
CODEX REVIEW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECISION-MAKING of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius could be made simpler and more transparent, under a review by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation and World Health Organisation. They think, with the World Trade Organisation increasingly using Codex standards to adjudicate food trade disputes, governments and other parties should have more input into their establishment.…
BYRNE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne has unveiled food industry proposals that the European Commission will make later this year. They include regulations on nutritional, functional and health claims made on packaging, updating rules on food contact materials for new types of packaging, non-GM reforms to the EU novel food regulation and amendments to EU legislation on food additives and sweeteners.…
US - MEXICO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO and the United States made pledges on several food industry issues during recent two-day talks. The countries have agreed to work together on sanitary policies, animal health, food safety, and research. US-Mexico agricultural trade has doubled since 1993 to US$13 billion in 2001.…
LITE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MISSPELT word ‘lite’ is not sufficiently descriptive to be a European Union trademark for food products, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It rejected an appeal by German company Rewe Zentral AG against a refusal by the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs), to register ‘lite’ a ‘Community trademark.’…
ARGENTINA - ITALY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has welcomed the announcement from Argentina that it has complied with last year’s ruling of the World Trade Organisation and lifted anti-dumping duties that it has been imposing on imports of ceramic tiles from Italy.…
BOSS PROFILES
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
BOSS Profiles Ltd, of India, a ceramic architectural products manufacturer in Pondicherry will launch a range of architectural ceramic products based on international patents. Boss said its existing IND Rupees 6.2 millions factory could manufacture 1.5 million square metres of product, to be expanded to 6.75 million square metres in five years.…
SRI LANKA BEACH
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
MINING is set to resume in earnest at the Pulmoddai beach mine in northern Sri Lanka, because the ceasefire between the island’s government and the Tamil Tiger separatists has removed the threat of violent disruption to its operations.…
SPANISH REFUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the Spanish government to recover “billions of Pesatas” in state aid that it claims Madrid illegally paid porcelain manufacturer Grupo de Empresas Álvarez, (GEA), in Vigo, Galicia, although it has asked the Spaniards to work out exactly how much money is involved.…