VINE LEAVES
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) pesticide residue laws are designed to prevent food consumers poisoning themselves with insect killer, but that important fact has not stopped European law being as much of an ass as its British cousin. For the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is expected to rule that vine leaves are not covered by European Union (EU) pesticide residue legislation. Why? Well, an advocate general - whose advice is usually followed by the full court - has said vine leaves are not legally vegetables and so not regulated by directive 90/642, ...
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