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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GLOBAL code of practice for reducing aflatoxin contamination in Brazil nuts has been approved by world food standards body Codex Alimentarius’ ruling commission.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW executive director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has confirmed that a new system under development for detecting emerging food risks in the European Union (EU) would focus on new ways of delivering old problems, such as the salmonella contamination at Cadbury.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TAX authority bosses from the world’s richest countries have banded together to fight international tax avoidance caused by the abuse of increasingly liberal capital movement and trading laws. Tax collectors from more than 30 countries – mostly members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – met in Seoul, South Korea to plot against such tax manoeuvres.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) has announced a new launch date for the first of a network of three meteorological satellites that will gather data in a polar orbit, providing crucial weather information. MetOp satellites will be launched on October 7 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and will provide data until 2020.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SPECIAL Interpol expert group will be gathering contacts from around the word for a database of potential assistance to deal with future outbreaks of bioterrorism. Meeting at Interpol’s Lyons, France, headquarters, the group was tasked with "identifying other leading authorities and entities throughout the world that can provide knowledge and support to Interpol member countries", an inquiry that could involve some British environmental health departments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW executive director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has hailed her agency’s initiative to develop a common scientific approach to assess the fish feed additives as "strongly in the interests of environmental protection and the health and safety of consumers."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE APPOINTMENT of a new executive director of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has come at a crucial time for this important European Union (EU) body. It is now four-years-old and so its future role and function can be moulded with the hindsight of experience.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FIRST public operation of a hydrogen fuel-cell bus in China has begun, plying an 18.2 km route in Beijing. A hydrogen-refuelling centre will also be fully operational by September. The UN Development Programme and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) have supported the project, which will see three more fuel-cell buses operating in Beijing later this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW broom is sweeping through the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), with the appointment of its second executive director, Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, and she wants to make the agency’s communications clearer, notably on oils and fats.

EFSA has been busy in the sector, carrying out risk assessments on trans fatty acids in foods and their affect on human health, following information requests from the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHAL

AN INTERPOL-coordinated global hit squad has been created to detect and combat the production of high quality counterfeit US dollars, known as ‘supernotes’, believed to be printed in North Korea. The group has been established by a conference meeting at Interpol’s Lyon headquarters, in France, attended by representatives from the US Secret Service, law enforcement experts and security printing industries.…