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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
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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE MISSPELT word ‘lite’ is not sufficiently descriptive to be a European Union trademark for food products, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It rejected an appeal by German company Rewe Zentral AG against a refusal by the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs), to register ‘lite’ a ‘Community trademark.’…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA is streamlining its export procedures to make it easier for food traders to sell their products abroad, such as an uniform commodity classification.…

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 MARK ROWE
IT may have taken riots in Seattle and Genoa but the World Trade Organisation has finally come out all compassionate. The theory is simple. Most of the world’s poor are in developing nations. Many of those in greatest poverty are farmers.…

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 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
A RESEARCH project developing ways of feeding spaceship food plants with the recycled faeces of Mars-bound astronauts could have important spin-off applications for the disposal of municipal waste water.

The European Space Agency funded MELISSA (micro-ecological life support alternative) project is examining how to re-use the maximum amount of waste generated by spacemen on future long trips to the red planet.…