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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rapid alert system for contaminated food and feed (RASFF) has warned nuts imported into the EU are still commonly contaminated with aflatoxins. It reported in August British customs seizures of groundnuts (and fine corn meal) from India, plus peanut butter from Ghana, containing the toxin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined fruit companies Weichert, of Germany, and Dole, of the USA, Euro 60.3 million for participating in a price-fixing banana cartel in Europe between 2000 and 2002. The USA’s Chiquita was also a member, but escaped fines by cooperating with a Commission inquiry.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 attacks on the US resulted in a raft of regulations to curb terrorist financing, but seven years on Al Qaeda is still at large, has adapted to the new regulatory environment to raise funds, and morphed into an international terrorist Hydra.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rapid alert system for contaminated food and feed (RASFF) has warned that nuts imported into the EU are still commonly contaminated with aflatoxins. It reported in August British customs seizures of groundnuts from India containing the toxin; Greek seizures of Chinese peanut kernels with aflatoxins; and Germany blocking an Iranian pistachio nuts cargo for the same reason.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN aerospace players have been named in an 11-strong shortlist of applicants to build the first complete network of European Union (EU) satellite navigation system GALILEO. They have been chosen by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), and have been narrowed down to a choice of two per task – with one job, launch services, having a shortlist of one: France’s Arianespace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEMBER governments of the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have adopted international guidelines designed to limit the impact of deep-sea fishing on species at risk of being over-fished. The rules would apply for fishing vessels working in international waters and they call on international fishery organisations to ensure deep sea fisheries are "rigorously managed".…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

CONSUMERS are getting fatter and more fitness conscious at the same time, prompting confectionery manufacturers to think hard about squaring the circle of health and indulgence when designing and marketing their products.

CAOBISCO, which represents the European Union’s (EU) chocolate, biscuit and confectionery industries, has traditionally taken a robust line about the benefits confectionery can bring to diets, signing up to the EU’s self-regulating plan for curbing obesity, announced last year.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY

GONE are the days of the disgruntled, Soviet style Baltic States truck driver, more interested in taking time off than pushing for more deliveries. Since the fall off communism and the coming of independence to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, a new breed of truckers has come on to the scene, with new trucks and more ambitious attitudes, including the desire to drive west.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the European Digital Library due to be launched by November, the European Commission has proposed a series of initiatives designed to increase the number of digitised works made freely available.

In a detailed report, Brussels has said it wants reform of regulatory obstacles preventing orphan sources – where the copyright holder cannot be traced – and works in the public domain from being digitised and published online.…

BY PATRICIA KELLY

A LENGTHY investigation over several years into the impact of indoor air quality on public health will result in a series of policy recommendations, pushing the European Commission into proposing formal regulations fixing the problem across the European Union (EU).…