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BY MARK ROWE

IN-FLIGHT catering has experienced a turbulent ride in recent years. Self-evidently, this sub-sector of the food industry’s fortunes are inextricably linked to those of the aviation industry and, put simply, fewer passengers, means fewer food sales.

Yet as the aviation market has recovered in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001, in-flight caterers have seen an upturn in business – and new demands, many of which feed into additional demands and opportunities for food manufacturers, who, along with processors and cooks have to be eclectic and extremely versatile.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HAVING a crystal ball can be useful and profitable for businesses wanting to get ahead of the game and know what investments they may need to comply with future regulations and best practice?

One tactic is to exploit globalisation.…

BY MARK ROWE

DESPITE devastating hailstorms along Italy’s Adriatic Coast and concerns over damage from the olive fly, the forecast for the olive oil market for the 2006 season is positive, according to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC).

"All the information available predicts a good harvest for this season" said a spokesman for the IOOC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 870,000 over two years in helping Polish meat producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing coming from nation governments or private sources.…

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 food industry and research groups.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AFLATOXINS have been reported in a range of nuts in the European Union (EU) says European Commission food health alert service RASFF. Contamination was discovered in Iranian, Vietnamese and Turkish pistachios; Brazilian peanuts; Sudanese groundnuts; Moroccan almonds; and Turkish hazelnuts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU – Russia claims safety concerns over these country’s meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU.…

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; MEPs want some fixed sizes retained.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

PEPSI and Coca-Cola India received temporary relief today when the country’s Supreme Court agreed to wait for a forthcoming government food-safety report and delayed the verdict in a controversial pesticides contamination case for two months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has given its 2006 ‘Green Award’ to a collaborative aquaculture 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.…