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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament environment committee is pushing for food businesses to be freed of tough authorisation procedures for health claims proposed by the European Commission, where they do not involve protecting consumers against illness. In amendments approved in its second reading of a planned European Union (EU) regulation on food nutrients, the committee said "a quicker and more flexible registration procedure" than originally proposed should apply for these statements.…

BY MARK ROWE

IF proof were needed that nanotechnology is more than an esoteric scientific discipline then it surely comes with the news that nanotech is about to come to a fast-food restaurant near you. Last month (March), OilFresh, a California-based company, commercially launched a nanotechnology-based frying oil in the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MASS production of a vaccine to fight the H5N1 bird flu strain in humans could begin within a year, after pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline launched clinical trials in Germany and Belgium.

The company is testing two vaccines: the first would be targeted at fighting a pandemic after an outbreak; the second aimed at advance inoculations.…

BY MARK ROWE

RECENT developments in nanotechnology are set to influence many areas of confectionary production, from processing to packaging and monitoring of food quality.

The Institute of Nanotechnology at Stirling University and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have been among those organisations producing and collating research in the field of nano-packaging and nano-barcodes – the molecular versions of traditional bar codes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RETAILERS should not make selected price comparisons with rivals in advertising, if consumers henceforth believe all their products are cheaper, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Antonio Tizzano found Belgian food chain Colruyt may have breached European Union directive 84/450/EEC on misleading advertising by favourably comparing prices with rivals Carrefour, Cora, Delhaize, Aldi, Lidl, Makro.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MEAT industry has been advised b the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to adopt high cleanliness standards to prevent the spread of salmonella in pork. In new advice, EFSA said: "Pork, after eggs and poultry meat, is a major source of human foodborne salmonellosis in the European Union (EU)".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUPERMARKETS should not make selected price comparisons with rivals in advertising, if consumers henceforth believe all their products are cheaper, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Antonio Tizzano found Belgian food supermarket chain Colruyt may have breached European Union directive 84/450/EEC on misleading advertising in advertisements by favourably comparing some of its prices with those of rivals Carrefour, Cora, Delhaize, Aldi, Lidl, Makro.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has predicted that South African food exporters will be well placed to seize business in Europe, should the World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round yield 50% reductions in tariffs, export and production subsidies worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EU anti-fraud office OLAF is warning that Indian buffalo meat is being imported into Europe, described as beef. OLAF fears this could spread food-and-mouth disease, endemic amongst Indian buffalos.

ENDS…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has responded to pressure from the current Austrian presidency of the EU to be more rigorous in its assessment of market approvals for new GM products. It has, for instance, asked the European Food Safety Authority to provide more detailed justification of any dismissal of scientific objections raised by national regulators.…