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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the European Commission have agreed to create a “closer strategic partnership” regarding development and humanitarian aid.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN organic meat industry has welcomed a US Department of Agriculture report that says livestock producers can source ample organic feed at acceptable prices. The Organic Trade Association said the findings should put to rest concerns voiced by competitors in the standard food sector about the availability or cost of organic livestock feed needed by organic producers.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Croatia’s Zagrebacka Banka (ZABA) have created a risk-sharing loan facility for Croatian food processors, producers and traders totalling Euro 71.4 million.…

BY MARK ROWE
DENMARK’S move to become the first country to restrict the use of industrially produced trans fatty acids in processed foods as part of a health drive to reduce heart disease looks like being accepted, by the European Commission and the Danish food industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’s proposed regulation on the assessment of GM foods and authorisation procedures for their sale on European markets has been formally approved by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. Another regulation on the traceability and labelling of GM organisms and food has also been approved.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards organisation Codex Alimentarius has set new guidelines for food irradiation, accepting higher levels that it previously recommended to eliminate bacteria. It also approved general principles on the analysis and management of risks related to biotechnological foods, including pre-market safety evaluations, product tracing for recalls and post-market monitoring.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) says growing food portions are contributing to obesity in the United States. While it says individuals bear the ultimate responsibility for what they eat, the AICR has chided food manufacturers and the restaurant industry for distorting what constitutes an appropriate meal size.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD products sold in stores across the European Union with labelling claiming lines are ‘fat-free,’ ‘light’ or ‘high-fibre’ will be manufactured according to strict scientific rules under a new directive proposed by the European Commission. The legislation would ban vague pledges that a foodstuff boosts immunity, energy, concentration and happiness unless such claims can be proved, sometimes according to set EU-wide criteria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced its first Euro 166 million tranche of funding for food and food safety projects, via the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme on research, which will spend Euro 16.5 million on all subjects until 2006.…