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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of the obesity drug Xenical for adolescents, the first time a weight loss drug has been allowed to treat children in America, of whom 15 per cent are obese.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union funded equipment has been unveiled at a food safety laboratory in Serbia, the first of 31 centres to be modernised via a Euro 14 million funding scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has appealed for US$25.5 million to fund alternative crop cultivation in the four main opium poppy producing provinces of Badakhshan, Helmand, Kandahar and Nangarhar. The FAO wants farmers to develop horticulture, livestock and food cash cropping instead.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SHIPMENT of green onions from Mexico has recently killed three people and sickened more than 600 in the United States. The onions – served up at Mexican restaurant chain Chi Chi’s – carried the Hepatitis A virus.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has tightened its meat import quotas for 2004 as part of a policy to cut food imports and encourage domestic livestock breeding. The Russian Meat Union said the approach had helped its poultry sector in 2003 and was being now being extended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved changes to EU food additive legislation (other than colourings and sweeteners), adopting European Parliament amendments passed in July to extend its market approval controls to food flavourings. Ministers shared MEPs’ concerns that the current directive could allow banned additives to be illicitly incorporated in uncontrolled flavourings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST livestock census in Afghanistan has shown that 10 years would be needed to naturally restore national herds to an economically sustainable level, following losses caused by 22 years of war. The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation said there are currently 3.7 million cattle, 8.8 million sheep, 7.3 million goats and 12.2 million poultry in the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL leaders in Brussels have been pressed to promote the planting of poplar and willow trees across the European Union (EU) to promote rural development, soil stability and biological de-contamination of ground pollutants. The call has come from the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), which runs a statutory body called the International Poplar Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler wants non-member Mediterranean countries to develop high quality organic food production to meet growing European demand. He said the EU should offer its know-how on organic farming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved the accession of the EU as a full member of the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius.…