Search Results for: food

BY MONICA DOBIE
BRITISH cheese makers are angry over a UK government decision to ban television advertising of cheese to children because it has been labelled as a fatty food potentially promoting obesity.

The outrage follows a decision by the UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) to prohibit the advertising of food and drink products that are high in fat, salt and sugar during programming appealing to children under 16.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament will re-examine the proposed key food pre-packaging sizes directive in the New Year, with the EU Council of Ministers formally approving its version of the legislation, after three months’ legal drafting. Ministers want to scrap all restrictions except for wines and spirits, while MEPs want fixed EU pack-sizes for pre-packed bread, spreadable fats and other foodstuffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADE ministers have agreed to restart the Doha Development Round agricultural liberalisation talks, hoping sufficient progress can be made to persuade the US Congress to renew President Bush’s fast-track negotiating authorisation. This expires in June, and will need refreshing for the World Trade Organisations talks to have any hope of success.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Europe’s food and drink companies have voiced “serious concern” to the German government – the new president of the EU – over new obstacles being placed by Russia to EU food exporters. IN a memorandum to Germany, the confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU (CIAA) says that since the EU enlargement in May 2004 there have arisen numerous non-tariff barriers “such as veterinary or sanitary certificates and other discriminatory procedures.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has given its 2006 ‘Green Award’ to a collaborative farmed seafood industry-international organisation study that produced global and detailed advice on reducing pollution problems caused by shrimp farming. The Network for Aquaculture Centres for the Asia Pacific teamed with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), WWF, the UN Environment Programme and the bank itself to form the Consortium on Shrimp Farming and the Environment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

MEAT-based, fast-food chains in New York City could face financial losses this summer because of a new law that will force restaurants to clearly display the calorie content of menu items.

The New York City Board of Health recently passed a by-law that requires restaurants that have already provided calorie counts of their food on websites or pamphlets or any other public form to display them clearly in the customers view when they order food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned of a boom in counterfeits of food and drink products entering the European Union, with more than 5 million fake items seized by customs officials last year. This is 118% compared with the numbers of seizures in 2004 – the first time the food/drink category has exceeded 5 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is to cooperate with the European Cooperation in Science and Technology programme (COST) in research strengthening the safety and security of Europe’s meat and livestock chain. Especially since the September 11 attacks, military forces and alliances have been increasingly concerned about bio-terror attacks via food distribution systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4.7 million in helping German, Greek, Italian and Polish food producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched comprehensive consultation on 45 food colourings currently used in the European Union, as the first step of a systematic re-evaluation of all EU-authorised food additives. EFSA wants new scientific information from the food industry and research groups about colourings and will start providing expert advice on the topic next year (2007).…