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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that glucose syrups produced from barley is likely to be safe, with a low chance of allergic reactions “in the majority of cereal allergic individuals”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINE wine producers are likely to be given another 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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) food and drink manufacturers association CIAA (NOTE: FRENCH ACRONYM) is calling on the European Commission to delay proposing planned reforms to European Union (EU) nutritional information legislation.

Commission officials are considering changes to EU regulation EC/90/496, which covers tables of nutritional information on packets, (not nutritional claims – covered by separate proposed EU legislation).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced heavy fines against the Polish government (Euro 473,000) and Latvia (Euro 204,000) for the hoarding of excess wine stocks ahead of their countries joining the European Union (EU) in 2004. Accession deals for new member states always insist that new member countries do not import or produce excess supplies of drinks or food products ahead of joining the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EURO 18 million European Union (EU) research project into organic foods is now developing practical processing methods helping this sub-sector become more profitable. The QualityLowInputFood project is for instance developing an ecological alternative to washing fresh vegetables in chlorinated water, using ozonised water to clean lettuce, and possibly courgettes and tomatoes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is planning to launch an in depth inquiry into how much of Europe’s pigmeat production is contaminated with salmonella. The European Commission has asked the European Union (EU) agency to act, because it wants a clear picture of the “public health risks” caused by the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN honey producers want more European Union-(EU)-funded research into their sector and better coordination of member states’ national honey promotion programmes. The call from FEEDM – the European Federation of Honey Packers and Distributors – and EU general food producers association COPA-COGECA comes in an assessment of the EU’s 2005 regulation funding honey data collection and marketing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR fight against salmonella contamination of food production has been launched by the European Commission, which has secured approval for a regulation forcing member states to reduce the prevalence of the disease amongst their broiler (poultry meat) flocks to 1% or less by 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR fight against salmonella contamination of food production has been launched by the European Commission, which has secured approval for a regulation forcing member states to reduce the prevalence of the disease amongst their broiler (poultry meat) flocks to 1% or less by 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE are indications that the European Parliament may give into pressure from the European Commission and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers and accept close-to-maximum liberalisation of EU prepackaging size restrictions. The parliament’s internal market and consumer protection committee has indicated that MEPs will accept the abolition of various EU-approved prepackaging sizes for food and drink products previously backed by the parliament: drinking milk, butter, ground or unground roasted coffee, dried pasta, rice and brown sugar.…