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JELLY MINI CUPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned on the EU of jelly mini-cups containing the food additive konjac (E 425), which take time to dissolve and have lead to the deaths of several American and Canadian children through choking.…
SE ASIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered tests on all imports of shrimps from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, (Burma), and poultry from Thailand to ensure antibiotic residues do not exceed EU health limits, following concerns raised by spot-checks.…
FRANCE - BEEF
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been warned by the European Commission that it risks being fined if it continues to flout a European Court of Justice ruling that it allow the import of British beef.…
APPLES AND CLEMENTINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has launched initial WTO disputes proceedings with Japan, which it claims is unfairly restricting the import of American apples. Meanwhile the US has banned the import of Spanish clementines.…
EU-LATIN AMERICA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT supporting research into new technologies for food distribution has been signed by the EU, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.…
CHINA WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has “expressed concern” and “disappointment” over China’s failure to met a January 1 deadline to establish low duty tariff quotas for imports of wheat, maize, rice, soybean oil, palm oil, rapeseed oil and sugar, under its WTO accession terms.…
FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has passed the proposed directive on food supplements, clearing the way for the final adoption of the new EU-wide rules which harmonise the national rules on the sale of pills and capsules, Including labeling) and safety rules for supplements containing vitamins and minerals.…
CAVIAR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CASPIAN Sea countries Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and Iran have launched a coordinated programme for surveying and managing sturgeon stocks, paving the way for resuming the US$100 million caviar industry, the United Nations Environment Programme has announced. The trade had been halted by UN conservation agency CITES.…
CODEX
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TASK force of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius has agreed detailed draft guidelines on how to assess the safety of genetically modified foodstuffs and on how to trace and remove from sale any product that is subsequently shown to pose a hazard to human health.…
EASTERN EUROPE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALMOST all eastern European countries applying to join the EU have asked for special transitional periods averaging three years to raise health standards at some of their food processing plants to meet EU regulations. Products from plants where improvements are still being made will not be able to circulate the EU.…