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NORTHERN IRISH MEAT AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LIVESTOCK and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland will benefit from the latest European Commission grants for promoting food sales within the EU. Brussels will subsidise a Northern Irish meat marketing and information campaign with Euro 207,365 over one year.…
OECD CALLS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRY FOOD PRODUCTION INVESTMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
URBANISATION in developing countries will inflate demand for meat and processed foods generally from this year to 2015, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has predicted. Its new ‘Agricultural Outlook’ identifies "growing market opportunities in certain developing countries" (notably Brazil, China and India).…
EUREKA SOFTWARE HELPS MANAGE FOOD TEST ANOMOLIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has developed a software tool called an ‘uncertainty manager’, which can help food manufacturers manage unpredictable results when testing products for additive concentration, drug residues and other microbiological issues. Because of many variables, from human error to prevailing weather, results can vary, even for the same test, on a single foodstuff.…
EFSA LAUNCHES REVIEW OF EMERGING RISK ALERTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is reviewing how it discovers and combats emerging food health risks, to hasten effective responses. In an assessment paper, EFSA had admitted it "will need to devote new internal resources for the work with emerging risks".…
OLAF REPORT CITES EU FOOD FRAUD SCAMS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEAT products and sugar are the most likely foodstuffs to be involved in frauds illegally tapping European Union (EU) subsidies or evading its duties, a new report from EU anti-fraud agency OLAF has claimed. Released in tandem with a European Commission report on EU fraud, the OLAF report said it had 18 open meat-focused cases and 16 sugar-centred probes, out of 80 food cases.…
OECD CALLS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRY FOOD PRODUCTION INVESTMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
URBANISATION in developing countries will inflate demand for meat and processed foods generally from this year to 2015, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has predicted. In a new ‘Agricultural Outlook’ written with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the OECD says "growing market opportunities in certain developing countries" (notably Brazil, China and India) will cause a "shift in production and export of farm commodities away from [developed] OECD countries and more towards other developing economies".…
EU FOOD FRAUD STILL COSTS MILLIONS OF EUROS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COST of fraud and corruption to the European Union’s (EU) food subsidy budgets continues to rise, with the European Commission being alerted to Euro 102 million’s worth of "irregularities" in 2005, compared to Euro 82 million in 2004.…
BIO-FUELGROWTH PROMPTS FEARS OVER SUGAR SUPPLIES
BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN food manufacturers are increasingly concerned that western governments might turn to sugar beet as a source of bio-fuel in the next few years, with possibly serious consequences for the price and availability of sugar in the long-term.…
WTO DOHA ROUND TALKS COLLAPSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S trade ministers will this August and September be considering whether they want to make further compromises that could restart the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round, which have been suspended amidst disagreement over its final goals.…
EU FOOD MANUFACTURERS LAUNCH NUTRITON LABELLING SCHEME
BY ALAN OSBORN
The EU’s food manufacturing companies have agreed on a voluntary nutrition labelling scheme which is to be recommended for use in all 25 member countries. The scheme, announced Monday by the EU Confederation of Food and Drink Industries (CIAA), will be formally presented today Tuesday to the European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health.…