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BY KEITH NUTHALL

GLOBAL food standards agency Codex Alimentarius is developing maximum levels of contamination of tin in canned beverages. The rules have been drafted by the Codex committee on food additives and contaminants, with the aim of formally adopting them by 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) executive director Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle has welcomed priorities set for her agency by its management board. They include improving cooperation with national food agencies and improving EFSA’s communication strategy.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that rules to approve the use of new additives in the European Union are streamlined, so it can authorise new substances, with the agreement of the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed overhauling the European Union’s (EU) legislation on flavourings, capping levels of potentially harmful substances. The proposal will also clarify legal definitions, for instance on flavouring substances, preparations and processes, saying when companies can claim flavourings are "natural".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a major public consultation exercise, which will include fish farms, to forge a common European Union (EU) method for assessing the environmental risks posed by fish feed. EFSA is not happy that in the European Union "no specific environmental risk assessment guidance exists for the aquatic compartment".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MEAT industry of Europe’s newest independent state, Montenegro, is to be boosted by a Euro 1.5 million cash injection from the European Union (EU), helping it set up effective livestock identification and registration systems. Such controls have always been considered weak in Montenegro, which is no mean producer of cattle: there are 120,000 head in this tiny Balkan country, on 37,000 (often small), farms.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

ACCOUNTANTS who feared that a change in UK rules would curb the growing trend in environmental accounting need not worry. Although the Business Review, which replaced the Operating and Finance Review (OFR) earlier this year, only requires quoted and large private companies to report significant environmental issues, the business case for companies and organisations to keep track of their environmental footprint continues to grow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE COST of fraud and corruption to the 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.

* http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2006/com2006_0378en01.doc…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A voluntary scheme for providing nutrition labelling on drinks sold in the 25 EU countries has been agreed by the EU Confederation of Food and Drink Industries (CIAA), the manufacturers’ association. The labels will include nutrients, nutrition content per drink and guidelines for daily amounts (GDAs).…