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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECISION-MAKING of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius could be made simpler and more transparent, under a review by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation and World Health Organisation. They think, with the World Trade Organisation increasingly using Codex standards to adjudicate food trade disputes, governments and other parties should have more input into their establishment.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has extended a ban on the export of all live pigs, together with porcine semen, ova and embryos, to parts of France, Germany and Luxembourg following new outbreaks of classical swine fever. At the same time it has ordered a one-month extension of controls in Spain until 30 June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne has unveiled food industry proposals that the European Commission will make later this year. They include regulations on nutritional, functional and health claims made on packaging, updating rules on food contact materials for new types of packaging, non-GM reforms to the EU novel food regulation and amendments to EU legislation on food additives and sweeteners.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO and the United States made pledges on several food industry issues during recent two-day talks. The countries have agreed to work together on sanitary policies, animal health, food safety, and research. US-Mexico agricultural trade has doubled since 1993 to US$13 billion in 2001.…

BY MARK ROWE
HONG Kong’s pork industry has been struck by a cut-throat price war. The row was sparked after two major supermarkets slashed their prices by 30 per cent, prompting retailers to blockade a slaughterhouse accused of offering preferential prices to supermarkets.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN inspections system has substantially decreased the incidences of salmonella in raw meat and poultry, according to data released last month (April, 2002) by the US Department of Agriculture.
The Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (PR/HACCP) is a science-based system that since 1998 has required establishments to develop a plan to prevent hazards and reduce pathogens in products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation will hold an “expert consultation” after the Swedish National Food Administration claimed accumulations of the toxin acrylamide have been found in fried and baked food, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A GROUNDBREAKING and comprehensive resolution on tourism passed by the EU Council of Ministers last week, which contained a wide range of policy goals and plans for action, has been given a lukewarm welcome by the European travel industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation will hold an “expert consultation” after the Swedish National Food Administration claimed accumulations of the toxin acrylamide have been found in fried and baked food, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SARA Lee Corporation, of the US, has introduced de-crusted bread at a food show in Chicago, with hopes to have it on supermarket shelves by July. The time-saving crustless bread will be priced at 75 cents to US$1 more than regular bread.…