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BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European Union’s eastern border set to move a few 100 miles eastwards on May 1 next year, preparations are under way to set up tough frontier controls against the food hygiene badlands of Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A TORONTO, Canada, company has developed a bolt-on pilot food oil processing plant that can allow food businesses to convert waste oil and grease into sellable bio-diesel. Biox Corp.’s technique uses low-grade food oils to make non-toxic, sulphur-free biodiesel and was developed by University of Toronto Professor David Boocock.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW European Food Safety Authority is to draw up a positive list of food flavourings scientifically validated as risk free. EFSA’s has authorised the Denmark’s Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition to evaluate up to 800 substances until 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and the European Food Safety Authority has launched a database containing the latest information about the risks posed by acrylamide in food, which has been highlighted as being possibly dangerous in baked and fried foods.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A CONTROVERSIAL regulation that had angered the American organic meat lobby has been axed. US President George W Bush has repealed Section 771 of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which would have allowed organic livestock producers to feed animals less than 100 per cent organic feed and still market the resulting meat, dairy and poultry products as organic.…

BY PHILIP FINE

UNITED States national and regional administrations need to better link their federal and state food safety rules, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences. In their report called Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food, the official Washington think tank recommends that a national plan be drawn up that would integrate the information on pathogens that US Department of Agriculture and the national Food and Drug Administration gather through food sampling with public health agencies’ surveillance data on food-borne disease.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States needs to better link its federal and state food safety rules, says a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Washington’s official think-tank. It also recommends integrating information on pathogens that US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration gather through food sampling, with public health agencies’ surveillance data on food-borne diseases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD researchers will be able to use the world’s largest library of genetic information about wheat, created by the combination of data by Britain’s John Innes centre and the National Institute for Agronomical Research, France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority wants a specialist to fill a new position of deputy executive director – head of science. Meanwhile, the agency has chosen experts to fill its scientific committee and panels; 1,050 scientists had applied for membership.…

Keith Nuthall
ALTHOUGH air traveller numbers fell last year, with the civil aviation industry still reeling from September 11, the global travel retail market grew by 5.3 per cent to US$20 billion in 2002. This took it back to the 2000 level, from which it had fallen the previous year.…