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BY KEITH NUTHALL

WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) boss Pascal Lamy has fruitlessly been encouraging governments to restart and conclude the suspended Doha Development Round. He asked key WTO members to engage "in some political heavy lifting…at home" to persuade food producers that subsidy and duty cuts are in their interest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union and China have agreed to improve cooperation in imposing import-export controls to prevent breaches of both sides’ food safety controls, which both sides accept pose significant health hazards to consumers. EU and Chinese officials will exchange intelligence about illegal consignments gleaned from spot-checks and investigations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FOOD industry in the European Union (EU), from farms to final processing, has been shedding jobs at a faster rate than any other economic sector, a report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLEAR rules have been proposed by the European Commission that would impose European Union (EU)-wide limits on the drinks industry for the amount of particular chemicals present in flavourings and flavouring ingredients. In an overhaul of EU flavouring legislation, the Commission noted there were contrasting limits between member states, impeding the drinks and food trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW executive director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has confirmed that a new system under development for detecting emerging food risks in the European Union (EU) would focus on new ways of delivering old problems, such as the salmonella contamination at Cadbury.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILS of a proposed overhaul of the European Union’s (EU) legislation on flavourings have been released by the European Commission, which will cap levels of potentially harmful substances. This will reform the current contrasts between national regulations, posing problems for food manufacturers operating across the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a list of priority projects under its 2007-13 trans European network (TENs) energy programme. Three of the 10 gas pipeline projects link Europe to Algeria, a key alternative source to Russia, and there are also priority gas pipelines to Libya and Turkey listed.…

BY MARK ROWE

ACCESSION to the European Union (EU), with its attendant necessity to comply with environmental directives, along with a surprising surge in water-based coatings, have combined to make the past year an eventful one for the Polish paint industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FORMAL guidelines on the amount of micro- and macro- nutrients that should be consumed by EU citizens are being drawn up by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). New executive director Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle stressed EFSA would not advise EU citizens on exactly how to consume such nutrients, however.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is reviewing how it discovers and combats emerging food health risks. The agency is also investigating building relationships with outside organisations providing risk alerts, to be quickly filtered by EFSA scientists. If they say an alert causes concern, more thorough assessments would be carried out.…