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BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHAT could be more straightforward or fairer, you might think, than the European Union’s veterinary and phytosanitary agreements with non-member countries?

The idea is that each party pledges that the food it exports to the other – be it derived from animals or plants – meets the requirements of its own food safety legislation and that this is then taken on trust by the receiving country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Department of Agriculture has made its National Nutrient Database adaptable to handheld Personal Digital Assistants; the database lists more than 6,000 food items. See http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to suspend Chinese imports of rabbit meat and poultry following the discovery of “serious deficiencies” in China’s medical residue control system and “problems related to the use of banned substances in the veterinary field.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRAQ’S petroleum revenues are surging again through the UN’s so-called oil-for-food programme, six months after a row over the future of the scheme had led to exports being suspended. As the scheme’s 11th phase started this month, (December), during the week ending December 7, Baghdad earned an estimated Euro110 million in revenue; the previous week, Iraq had earned Euro 334 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has again voted for a name change for the proposed European Food Authority, which will henceforth be known as the European Food Safety Authority, unless ministers overturn the move. MEP’s also voted to streamline its management board and boost its democratic accountability, regarding public meetings and documents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has again voted for a name change for the proposed European Food Authority, which will henceforth be known as the European Food Safety Authority, unless the EU Council of Ministers overturns the move. MEP’s also voted to streamline its management board and boost its democratic accountability, regarding public meetings and documents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Parliament this week (on December 11th) cleared the way for a European Food Safety Authority early next year with powers to set and monitor safety standards for the entire food chain “from farm to fork.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER countries of the World Trade Organisation have sought to exploit the deal struck in Doha, Qatar, to strive for more comprehensive liberalisation in the ongoing agricultural round than has so far been discussed. At an informal meeting of the food trade talks, meat exporter Australia has been calling for an end to trade preferences favouring exports from developing countries, claiming that they encourage them to be dependent on a small range of uncompetitive products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA’S Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued new health standards for meat and meat products, namely corned beef, luncheon meat, cooked ham, chopped meat, canned chicken, canned mutton and goat meat, frozen mutton and goat meat, focusing on microbiological requirements, the use of food additives and metal contaminants.…

BY KATE REW AND KEITH NUTHALL
DELAYS sparked by increased security following the September 11 attacks have been a boon for airport bars, says HMS Host, a US company managing food, drink and retail services at 65 domestic airports, which has said that its bar sales for 2001 will equal those in 2000, despite a drop of 28 per cent in passengers in September and October.…