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BY KEITH NUTHALL

INNOVATIVE recycling projects are to prosper from European Union (EU) grants under the Euro 66 million EU LIFE-Environment programme this coming year, the European Commission has announced. Although they are not based in the UK, these recycling projects will develop new technology and systems that can be applied freely in Britain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BELGIUM and an alliance of six other European Union (EU) member states are pushing for the EU’s food control committees to develop monitoring systems to prevent unauthorised GM food imports into Europe. Its move at the EU Council of Ministers follows the illicit import of unapproved GM American rice.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has reached cruising speed as the foremost authority regarding food safety, according to its newly appointed executive director Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, who was speaking in Brussels this morning (Wed 18-10).

She noted that the EFSA was established in 2002 at a time when consumer confidence in European Union (EU) food safety arrangements was weak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEARLY a third of all confectionary sold in China are counterfeits of global brands, a new European Commission survey says. Businesses, industrial federations and diplomatic missions agreed: "For the confectionary business, the infringement causes more than 30% loss in sales value every year", and they stressed the difficulty of preventing such offences through legal action.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission audits into failures of European Union (EU) member states to recover agricultural subsidies paid after faulty applications involving financial irregularities or outright fraud have sparked charges of Euro 317.3 million from Brussels. It is penalising governments for "negligence" in pursuing guilty claimants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project will establish common rules measuring damage caused to consumers by food-borne illnesses, to iron out inconsistencies in assessments between EU countries. Part of the EU’s Med-Vet-Net initiative, scientists will focus on two common infections: salmonella and campylobacter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IRISH food health officials have been fighting the first ever outbreak of Xenohaliotis Californiensis in the Republic of Ireland, which has been detected in four abalone growing sites in the country’s south-west. Tests confirmed the presence of the pathogen from this summer at Bere Island and Cape Clear – County Cork; Claddaghduff – Galway; and Castlegregory – Kerry.…

BY MARK ROWE

DR JOHAN Ubbink, a senior research scientist at the Nestlé Research Centre for Food and Life Sciences in Lausanne, is responsible for background research work on food science that enables the company to develop innovative products. "Our key objectives are scientific advances in food and science nutrition which help to create products that give enjoyment and satisfaction to consumers and, increasingly, help them maintain a nutritionally balanced and healthy diet," he told just-food.com.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has made a second bid for new powers to amend European Union (EU) food legislation, without securing approval from the European Parliament or the EU Council of Ministers. Brussels earlier requested authority to change details of EU additives laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project has been launched to establish common rules measuring damage caused to consumers by food-borne illnesses, to iron out inconsistencies in assessments between EU countries. Part of the EU’s Med-Vet-Net initiative, scientists will focus on two common infections: salmonella and campylobacter.…