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BY MONICA DOBIE
DISHES washed manually in restaurants are at higher risk of containing harmful bacteria that those cleaned with automatic dishwashers, an American study suggests.

Why? Well, human dishwashers don’t always use the piping hot water required to wipe out germs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a food and drinks-focused trade deal negotiated by the European Commission and Albania. Under a special annex on wines, imports into the EU of 5,000 hl Albanian sparkling wine and 2,000 hl still wine will enter duty free annually, while 10,000 hl EU-made sparkling wine will enter Albania duty free each year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and food industry international organisations have been asked to comment on draft guidelines on using antibiotic resistance marker genes in transgenic meat production drafted by global food standards body Codex Alimentarius. This additional consultation follows pressure from the European Commission for more studies into these genes’ safety.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Parliament report has suggested that European Union (EU) legislation could ban the marketing of sugary fatty foods to young people, should the EU food industry continue such advertising. Belgian Liberal MEP Frédérique Ries suggests the food industry self-regulate marketing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Parliament report has suggested that European Union (EU) legislation could ban the marketing of sugary fatty foods to young people, should the EU food industry continue such advertising. A paper by Belgian Liberal MEP Frédérique Ries suggests the food industry be asked via the existing EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health to self-regulate marketing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Food Safety Authority has announced that campylobacteriosis has overtaken salmonellosis as “the most reported animal infection transmitted to humans in the EU” adding that there was “growing concern over resistance of the infection to antibiotics.”

In its annual report for 2005 on zoonoses (diseases or infections transmissible from animals to humans either directly or through contaminated foodstuffs), EFSA reported that campylobacter infections in humans increased by 7.8% rising to an incidence rate of 51.6 cases per 100,000 people and to a total of 197,363 recorded cases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has issued a regulation insisting packaging companies ensure from August 2008 that they follow effective quality assurance and quality control systems where their materials touch food. Issued just before Christmas, the legislation insists that packaging companies document these good practices, although stops short of stipulating their exact form.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
IN the space of some five years, biofuels have grown from almost total insignificance in the European Union (EU) to becoming the only practical alternative to petrol as a fuel for motor vehicles and much else – albeit still at a very low level.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REFORM of the European Union’s (EU) fruit and vegetable market, while liberalising the existing system, would encourage additional subsidies for boosting this sector amongst young consumers. Amidst concerns that Europeans are failing to eat enough fruit and vegetables, generating poor health, the European Commission has proposed increasing the EU’s rate of financing promotions for fruit and vegetable to 60% from the usual 50% maximum, when campaigns focus on children and adolescents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has issued a regulation insisting that food packaging plants ensure from August 2008 that they follow effective quality assurance and quality control systems where their materials touch foodstuffs. The legislation, which was approved without the help of European Union (EU) ministers and the European Parliament insists that food companies document these good practices, although stops short of stipulating their exact form.…