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BY KEITH NUTHALL
US Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick has backed launching a case against the European Union for refusing to accept genetically modified food. Such a suit would seek to overturn Brussels’ de facto four year-old moratorium on GM food imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ENVIRONMENT committee of the European Parliament wants a review of the safety levels of food additives used in children’s foods such as confectionery and soft drinks to check whether they are safe for young people. MEPs want the European Commission to act within three years, because additive levels are set for adults.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has thrown doubt on the legality of national food quality marks within the European Union (EU), through a judgement ruling that a ‘Markenqualität aus deutschen Landen’ (quality label for produce made in Germany) scheme breaks EU freedom of trade rules by excluding products made out of its home country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMING may be becoming increasingly high-tech, but somehow, it still seems rather odd to couple digging potatoes with launching shiny satellites into orbit around the Earth. But, in fact – as many British farmers well know – space technology has offered useful services to agriculture and will increasingly do so in the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez water company and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has urged banana producers to vary the varieties they produce to defend against disease, notably the Panama Disease, which has been hitting Cavendish bananas, mostly sold in Europe and north America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a permanent ban on the food additive E425 konjac in jelly confectionery because of the risks of children and old people choking on such sweets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the introduction of common food and feed health controls for all EU Member States. The regime includes management principles (documented control procedures and internal audits) and stricter rules on the accreditation of laboratories.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL code of practice for the harvesting and manufacturing of fish and fishery products is being drawn up by the world food trade standards body, Codex Alimentarius. Its committee on food hygiene recently endorsed a draft set of worldwide list of rules on handling fish, which are being developed to promote trade by creating uniform, albeit voluntary, standards.…