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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Scientific Steering Committee – the body offering the European Commission expert advice on food safety issues – has held its final meeting, six years after its creation. Its functions are to be taken over by the new European Food Safety Authority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FIRST European conference is being staged – in June – to discuss the latest form of food production that seeks to wed traditional techniques with new technology and analysis. Precision livestock production involves the computer processing of information about single or small groups of animals, so that inputs and welfare are matched to achieve perfect meat production return.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union is facing growing opposition at the World Trade Organisation to its stance on geographical indications, where it refuses to grant protection to traditional regional names of drinks and food products from non-EU countries, unless their governments roughly copy Europe’s own rules.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Meat Institute (AMI) has called on the US government to clarify draft guidelines on how to operate a new labelling law, which will require the declaration of the name of the country where a food item originated.…

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.…

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 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 US President George W Bush has repealed Section 771 of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which would have allowed organic livestock producers to feed animals less than 100 per cent organic feed and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 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
DEVELOPED countries have agreed to enter into formal talks with developing countries, if poorer food exporting states encounter problems complying with any new food health restrictions imposed by richer importing trading partners. The commitment was framed in a Canadian proposal to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) sanitary and phytosanitary measures committee under the ongoing Doha development round talks.…

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.…