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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN 1995, when I visited the Laos capital Vientiane, it was a sleepy place; a quiet low rise French colonial town on the banks of the Mekong, a listless, aimless, but charming mix of Soviet-style socialist monuments, Buddhist temples and Provencal town houses.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEWLY developed farm-to-fork database system could help better trace the source of food poisoning outbreaks in beef cattle. Developed in the USA by Kansas-based VeriPrime Inc, the system labels each animal with a coded metal tag, bearing birth and slaughter information.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) and the USA’s Food and Drug Administration have struck a deal on regulatory cooperation, entailing the swapping of advance copies of draft rules, guidance, marketing authorisations and supervision notes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EU funded project has developed a new potato sorting system which inflicts less damage on the vegetable than traditional systems. The DECOP project meet demand from the potato processing industry and the food retail sector. Sensors recognise individual potato varieties, fixing flow rates and filtering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL agreement has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over an updating of EU food labelling legislation ensuring all potentially allergenic ingredients are named. It has accepted final amendments passed by the European Parliament, so the new directive will now become law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN 1995, when I visited the Laos capital Vientiane, it was a sleepy place; a quiet low rise French colonial town on the banks of the Mekong, a listless, aimless, but charming mix of Soviet-style socialist monuments, Buddhist temples and Provencal town houses.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FOUR US states have taken the country’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court, claiming the federal agency has not adequately curbed the nation’s pesticide use and is harming children’s health in the process. The attorney generals of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts say the EPA is not adhering to the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act, which dictates strict limits on pesticide use and stipulates that food commonly consumed by children must have pesticide levels 10 times lower than those of adults.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEW database system could help better trace the source of food poisoning

outbreaks in beef cattle. Developed by Kansas-based VeriPrime Inc and being

used in the US, it labels each animal with a coded metal tag, bearing birth

and slaughter information; the data is computerised so it can be accessed by retailers and wholesalers.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WITH profits down and a flooded chicken market, America’s Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat producer, is planning to sack more than a third of its Arkansas plant workforce. The company says it will be outsourcing the work of the 600 dismissed unionised workers, who mainly removed bones from chicken carcasses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED rules guiding European Union (EU) countries on handling future outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) have been approved by the EU Council of Ministers. Under pre-existing European legislation, member countries were not encouraged to use vaccination as a front-line response to FMD, and the movement of vaccinated animals were banned for a year.…