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BY KEITH NUTHALL
MINISTERS from the 15 EU member governments have cut back the proposed representation of the European Commission on the management board that will run the new European Food Authority. Instead of four members on the 16-member panel, the Commission is to have only one.…

BY KATE REW
AMERICAN consumers continue to pay high prices for sugar products despite the fact that prices of sugar beet have hit devastatingly low levels at the farm gate, according to the President of the American Sugarbeet Association, Ray Van Driessche.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL guidelines to prevent the future spread of BSE around the world have been agreed by a joint meeting of the World Health Organisation, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Office International des Epizooties, the world’s animal health organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has agreed reforms to EU rules on pig welfare. They now ban the confinement of pregnant pigs to individual stalls and tethering of sows and gilts. The amended directive also includes rules on improving the living environment of pigs and piglets, such as a minimum size of sow pens, and requires permanent access to rooting materials and fibre food.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN meat processor Sara Lee’s guilty plea to a federal misdemeanor of making and distributing contaminated meats that were associated with 15 deaths and led to a settlement including a US$200,000 fine and to give US$3 million to fund food safety research at Michigan State University.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE HIGH production cost of sugar within India is a major stumbling block to the export of an existing large surplus, the country’s Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Shanta Kumar has said at a press conference.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRUSSELS is always looking for big ideas by which it can justify its existence to a doubting public and one of the latest of these is the concept of a European Research Area. This idea is that Europe – with its patchwork of nations and national research units – should coordinate its academics and researchers, making sure that they do not duplicate their efforts, rather dovetailing them with a single European goal in mind.…

Keith Nuthall
LOS Angeles Airport (LAX) last month began a six-month programme to recycle food leftovers into power generators, which feed electricity into the local grid. The programme has been launched in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.…

BY KATE REW
LOS Angeles Airport (LAX) has begun a six-month programme to recycle food leftovers into power generators, which feed electricity into the local grid. The programme has been launched in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.…

Keith Nuthall
THREE Sky Chef employees have been charged in connection with theft of over US$1.5 million worth of miniature bottles of spirits from the company’s ‘Bonded Room’ in John F. Kennedy airport, New York. Each of the three men has been charged with burglary and/or criminal possession of stolen property and face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.…