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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised for the first time trade honey and fish products, across the Green Line in Cyprus, separating the island’s Greek ad Turkish territories.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project says it is using cutting edge technology to develop natural-fibre based food packaging that can replace materials based on petrochemicals such as polymers. Professor Chris Breen of Sheffield Hallam University, a member of the EU SUSTAINPACK project, said his team was incorporating tiny nano-clay particles in biopolymer films to make them as water resistant as standard polymer packaging.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein is planning to use the services of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which was established as a European Union (EU) agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) expert group has raised concerns about methods used by the food industry to measure exposure of consumers to flavourings during market safety trials. In a study of flavourings including aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic ethers (plus anisole derivatives), EFSA’s scientific panel on food additives, flavourings, processing aids and materials in contact with food criticised Maximised Survey-derived Daily Intakes (MSDIs) methods, looking at average consumption of a flavouring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINE wine producers have a stay of execution over their right to sell wines in the European Union (EU) containing malic acid, which is used to correct acidity and banned in EU wine production. The European Commission has long been seeking a comprehensive wine agreement with Argentina covering wine making practices, and the EU Council of Ministers have now given both sides until January 2009 to strike a deal, before a ban on sales of Argentine wines containing malic acid theoretically comes into force.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER countries of global food standards body Codex Alimentarius are being consulted on new draft guidelines on the use of flavourings, to be approved by the organisation’s ruling commission, in Rome, at a July 2-7 session. Codex is seeking comments on the flavouring rules by May 30.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has launched a research project – called EuroMedCitrusNet – aimed at reducing the transfer of pathogens from citrus fruits, through processing into final food and drink products, such as juice. Researchers will look at processing chains amongst key Mediterranean suppliers, boosting training and technology.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH is possibly the most complex piece of legislation issued by an international organisation known for its administrative and legal complexity, and will pose significant compliance challenges for the oils and fats sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has accepting Xenohaliotis californiensis is “endemic in existing H. tuberculata [abalone] farms in Ireland.”

This follows four outbreaks last year affecting 344,000 abalone in counties Cork, Galway and Kerry and a new infestation at a National University of Ireland, Galway, marine institute.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HOPES that the departure of former French president Jacques Chirac from the Élysée Palace would help create an opening for the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round have been dashed. New president Nicolas Sarkozy told northern France producers that he would insist on guaranteed subsidies protecting French meat and other specialities.…