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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s ‘rapid alert system for food and feed’ RASFF has reported a series of salmonella contaminations within pigmeat. Italian authorities have detected it in meat from Germany (three outbreaks), Belgium and Spain. RASFF has also reported salmonella discovered in Estonia within Lithuanian chicken thighs, and in Italy amongst Hungarian frozen eviscerated ducks and chitterlings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced its latest tranche of funding to help European Union (EU) drinks producers sell products outside the EU. Maybe the most significant grant is Euro 1.43 million being paid over three years by Brussels to Lithuania to boost exports of wines and spirits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has largely frozen spending on the restructuring and conversion of vineyards within the European Union (EU) balancing an oversupplied wine market. Despite approving a series of compulsory distillation subsides this year, Brussels will spend Euro 450 million on conversion and restructuring in 2005/6, the same as in 2004/5.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project IntelliDrug is developing an oral drug delivery device placed next to a patient’s teeth, allowing them to eat and speak without impediment. The kit even looks similar to natural teeth and would be installed in the dental arch, said a European Commission note.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has sent final legal warnings to Italy, Greece and Spain threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over not properly complying with the EU water framework directive. Brussels says they have failed to devise administrative blocks based on river basin districts, and provide detailed information on relevant management authorities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE and Spain have been found in breach of European Union (EU) law by effectively reducing the amount of VAT due on purchases assisted by government subsidies. By not insisting the full rate of VAT was paid or deducted, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) says the two countries are breaking the EU’s sixth VAT directive of 1977.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROLE of the Caribbean as a staging point for ill-gotten gains goes back to the trans-Atlantic misadventures of the first European ships over 400 years ago. It would appear some habits die hard. Wesley Gibbings reports from Port of Spain, Trinidad.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided on an unchanged figure of Euro 450 million for conversion and restructuring in the European Union’s wine sector in 2005/6 in spite of a high level of compulsory distillation this year so far.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) management committee for wine has agreed that Hungary be allowed to make a “crisis distillation” of 400,000 hectolitres of table wine, paying subsidies of Euro 1.914 per hectolitre times the percentage of alcohol by volume (abv) and 100,000 hl of quality wine at Euro 2.30 per hectolitre per % abv.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has added a range of meat products to the scope of a directive that would limit the use of certain additives in food. In amendments at first reading, that will require support from European Union (EU) ministers to become law, MEPs said a number of traditionally cured meat products from Spain, Germany and eastern European countries should be subject to sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate residue limits.…