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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has recommended that systematic testing for antibiotic residues should be introduced for all imports of Brazilian poultry meat, products and preparations, after checks revealed that cargoes have been contaminated with restricted nitrofurans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has looked ahead to reforms in Europe’s food production system beyond Brussels established Agenda 2000 changes. Speaking at the European Policy Centre, he said that the Commission was very keen to decoupling per-head payments from production, replacing them with a single income payment per farm, based on its historical level of premiums.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST meeting of the management board of the European Food Safety Authority has elected Britain’s Chair of the National Consumer Council, Deridre Hutton, as a vice-chair and appointed as chairman Codex Alimentarius vice-chair Dr Stuart Slorach, also Deputy Director of the Swedish National Food Administration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RICHES that can be made from the illegal ivory trade are well known, but what of illicit imports and exports of rare flowers. Shipping protected orchids to Europe, Japan and north America can make criminals a lot of money.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE UNIVERSITY of Queensland, Australia, has developed a method of making leather out of chicken skin that it says will be extremely useful for products requiring drip, notably steering wheels, driving gloves and mobile telephone covers. The university’s John Dingle says leather could provide another use for old chickens than pet food.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
MORE than 2,000 kilograms of illegally imported food products have been seized at Dublin airport each month this year. The figure has prompted the Irish government to tighten restrictions, including a ban on personal imports of animal-based products from outside the EU and a limit of 10 kg per person on meat and milk-based products from within Europe.…

BY PHILIP FINE

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating

inspection rules for pharmaceutical products in an effort to improve the

safety and efficiency of production and restore consumer and manufacturer

confidence in the agency.

The planned revision of the current "good manufacturing practice

Program" comes in the wake of several recent incidents that have shaken

confidence in

drugs manufacture in the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission because of its failure to scrap a law insisting that labels on foodstuffs imported into France must be written in the French language. Brussels says this breaks EU free trade rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIAL WTO rules of origin committee has recommended global regulations stating whether food manufacturing processes are important enough for the processed ingredient or product to be legally a new product, made in the manufacturing country, not where its raw materials were sourced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MORE detailed guidelines have been proposed by the European Commission to enable food processors using GM products to improve pre-and post-marketing monitoring of foodstuffs. Research carried out by the University of Newcastle has provided evidence that GM genes can find their way into human gut bacteria.…