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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 PHILIP FINE

UNITED States border authorities on the lookout for a new food smuggling racket from Mexico, after customs officials discovered an operation that involved one light truck and 756 pounds of processed sandwich meat. US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 81 rolls of Mexican baloney on Texas’s Paso Del Norte bridge from Juarez, Mexico.…

BY PHILIP FINE

DESPITE protests from a coalition of the major food associations, the US Department of Agriculture has laid out the specifics for its mandatory country of origin labelling (COOL) programme. The proposed rule identifies what products fall under the law and who is responsible for fulfilling them, with most cuts of meat and variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and dairy products required to carry a "United States country of origin" declaration at the retail level.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is inching towards breaking its de facto ban on approving new genetically modified foodstuffs, with its standing committee on the food chain and animal health discussing whether to approve the sale of a GM sweet corn (Bt-11), which is manufactured by Swiss company Syngenta to produces its own insecticide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POWERFUL disused radioactive source left in a small unguarded bunker at the Ivory Coast’s University of Cocody (in the capital Abidjan) has been has been secured by the International Atomic Energy Agency, specialists from France and the host country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is inching towards breaking its de facto ban on approving new genetically modified foodstuffs, with its standing committee on the food chain and animal health discussing whether to approve the sale of a GM sweet corn (Bt-11), which is manufactured by Swiss company Syngenta to produces its own insecticide.…

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
RULES will be lifted that require 20 per cent of Thai poultry meat exported into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of banned anti-microbial substances such as nitrofurans. The EU standing committee on the food chain and animal health has ordered an end to (initially 100 per cent) checks imposed in March 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its strategy to kick-start the stalled World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round, offering to drop its insistence that deals on the protection of investment rights, competition and other financial matters be written into a final agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Parliamentarians are urging the European Commission to draw up legislation that would establish the legal liability of GM food producers for contamination of products by non-biotech manufacturers and growers. Such legislation, said the parliament’s agriculture committee should tell GM companies to secure insurance to settle such claims.…