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BY MONICA DOBIE
CHINESE scientists may have found a way for people who suffer from seafood allergies to eat prawns without the fear of an adverse allergic reaction. The Ocean University of China, Qingdao, has found that treating prawns with a combination of heat and irradiation significantly reduced the level of reactive allergen proteins found in the food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DOHA Development Round talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have restarted in earnest, following their suspension last summer, WTO director general Pascal Lamy has announced. Speaking to the WTO general council in Geneva, he said: “We have resumed our negotiations fully across the board”, notably the food trade talks for which tactics were agreed at the recent Davos World Economic Forum.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced another 28 protected food products that can only be marketed in the European Union with their traditional name, if they are produced in their home region using time-honoured production methods. Newly protected products include Corsican olive oil; Flemish almond cake Geraardsbergse mattentaart; Irish Connemara ‘hill lamb’; and others: see http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/newsroom/en/252.htm…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHINESE scientists may have found a way for people who suffer from seafood allergies to eat prawns without the fear of an adverse allergic reaction. Li Zhenxing, research leader at the Ocean University of China, Qingdao, found that treating prawns with a combination of heat and irradiation significantly reduced the level of reactive allergen proteins found in the food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is predicting growing European Union (EU) and global world markets for sugar from 2007-13. However, in its medium-term food market analysis, it EU producers could miss these opportunities if they fail to restructure under the EU’s sugar market reforms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TODAY’S medical world is abuzz with nanotechnology, with its offer of vision-enhancing eye implants, tiny needlepoint diagnostic cameras that don’t hurt, and clever medicine membranes that ooze out the pharmaceuticals in correct regular doses.

But there are risks, of course, as with any new science.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has promised the European Commission will redesign its existing EU-compliant organic food logo before it becomes mandatory under a proposed organic food standards regulation. Fischer Boel promised to consult widely on a design, maybe organising a public competition or asking member states to suggest formats.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched detailed guidelines on new harmonised European Union (EU)-wide tests for detecting antimicrobial resistance to salmonella in fowl, turkeys and pigs, plus campylobacter in broilers. EFSA wants the EU’s 27 countries to collect data similarly to help frame and effective pan-EU strategy to control these diseases, the bane of many meat sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has promised the European Commission will redesign its existing EU-compliant organic food logo before it becomes mandatory under a proposed organic food standards regulation. Fischer Boel promised to consult widely on a design, maybe organising a public competition or asking member states to suggest formats.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DISEASE is maybe the seafood industry’s worst nightmare. Whole stocks, natural or farmed, can be wiped out overnight. And, with globalisation meaning disease is ever more likely to be transported by international shipping, cargo planes, chilled train wagons and lorries, it is increasingly important seafood businesses monitor disease outbreaks abroad, to protect themselves and their sticks against exposure.…