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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a regulation authorising the EU sale of food in ‘active’ or ‘intelligent’ packaging that interacts with a product, transmitting information to consumers about quality, highlighting mould for instance. They are currently banned on health grounds.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A US consumer watchdog is intensifying its campaign to have the meat substitute, Quorn, taken off supermarket shelves, despite Britain’s Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) rejection of claims that it is unsafe. Despite this assessment, influential American lobby group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has continued urging the US Food and Drug Administration to ban the product, citing allergic reactions involving nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES are afoot in Brussels to pass a law requiring all companies handling food to be inspected annually, then publicly ‘named and shamed’ should they be found breaking health and hygiene rules. The idea has been tabled by the European Parliament’s environment committee as an amendment to an umbrella food safety regulation proposed earlier this year covering food quality, animal feed, safety, labelling and inspections, providing for criminal penalties for serious breaches of its rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which – if confirmed – will see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU meat products annually fall to half their current level by 2010, before being scrapped altogether by 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which would see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU confectionary products and ingredients fall by half by 2010, being scrapped by 2011. Affected products include chocolate, cocoa powder and sugar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned live animal tests need to be carried out on a new poultry feed BioPlus 2B, based on a mixture of two micro-organisms, bacillus licheniformis and bacillus subtilis. In vitro studies of the feed, already approved for fattening chickens and turkeys, raised some doubts about its effectiveness.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which would see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU confectionary products and ingredients fall by half by 2010, being scrapped by 2011. Affected products include chocolate, cocoa powder and sugar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BUDGET of Euro 197 million has been released by the European Commission for studies into food quality and safety, under the umbrella of the European Union sixth framework programme for research. It has published formal calls for proposals from research units, most of which must be answered by next February.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REDUCED calorie fat, salatrims have been approved for use as novel food ingredients in the EU by the European Commission. The triacylglycerides are used in bakery products and confectionery, particularly chocolate, eaten by dieters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference is being staged in Brussels this week, which will examine how to create realistic risk perceptions about controversial subjects, where public concern can significantly influence democratic government policies. The European Commission organised event will especially focus on food safety, where fears about biotechnology – especially on genetically modified foodstuffs – have forced European Union (EU) institutions and governments to take a very cautious stance.…