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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has demanded that a disputes panel be established at the World Trade Organisation to hear its complaint that Australian quarantine rules against meat and other food products are so tough, they break world trade laws.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has suspended the shipment into the EU of de-boned and maturated bovine meat from northern Argentina following reports of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs in certain provinces. The European Commission said the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health had voted in favour of the ban which will apply to meat from the departments of Ramon Lista in the province of Formosa and from General Jose de San Martin, Rivadavia, Oran, Iruya and Santa Victoria in the Province of Salta, where the outbreak has been centred, (it is close to the border with Paraguay and Bolivia).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) will over the next three months try to pick up the pieces from its failed summit in Cancun, Mexico. The meeting was effectively scuppered by the developing world, which refused to talk about writing rules on protecting investment rights into a new WTO agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOLLOWING the failed World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun, Mexico, the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation negotiations are being delayed. The “special session” of officials dealing with the food and drink portion of the Doha Development Round was supposed to meet in Geneva on October 6-9, but this meeting has now been postponed “indefinitely.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has demanded a disputes panel be established at the WTO to hear its complaint that Australian quarantine rules against food products are so tough, they break world trade laws. Brussels says the import of tomatoes, fresh citrus fruit, apples, peaches, nectarines, cucumbers, lettuce, carrots, apricots, edible eggs and egg products, uncooked pigmeat and uncooked poultry meat is unfairly restricted.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THERE are many sights that one can rely on seeing in Paris every day. Patrons lining up at bakeries for fresh baguettes, traffic-filled streets choked amongst stunning architecture, perfectly lit River Seine views and busy cafes packed with people sitting, side-by-side, sipping over-priced drinks while watching other people walk by.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission lawyers are codifying and simplifying complex EU legislation on the use of extraction solvents in food production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the diplomatic impasse crystallised at Cancun recedes into memory, the World Trade Organisation is facing what may be the sternest test of its eight year existence: can a body of 146 members actually agree comprehensive trade deals by consensus?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority is on the move, but is still staying in Brussels for now. Its management board has authorised the rental of larger temporary premises as the agency grows from its current 50 staff to a planned 200-300 complement in 2005.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A US company has developed a farm-to-fork computer system that could assist the tracing of food poisoning outbreak sources in beef cattle. Developed by Kansas-based VeriPrime Inc, the system labels each animal with a coded metal tag, bearing information on birth and slaughter, which is logged onto a database.…