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SPAIN ITALY SHELLFISH CONTAMINATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF) has warned of five cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins being discovered in Italy amongst live mussels from Spain. Italian authorities have also noted excess sulphite content in Norway lobster from the UK, said RASFF.…
NEW GM MAIZE APPROVAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the sale in the EU of genetically modified maize 1507 as food, an ingredient and derived products, including oil and starch. It resists the European corn borer beetle, some moth pests, and withstands the herbicide glufosinate-ammonium.…
GM APPROVALS DECISION-MAKING EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CURRENT EU president Austria is pushing for tighter EU controls on approving GM food products. Because of a deadlock amongst member states, the European Commission has been authorising GM market approvals, upsetting countries such as Austria, which oppose such permissions.…
BRITAIN BEEF BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LIFTING of the 10-year-old ban on UK exports of beef and beef products was likely to be made in mid-April, following the recommendation for liberalisation by the European Union’s (EU) standing committee on the food chain and animal health.…
BRITAIN BEEF BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LIFTING of the 10-year-old ban on UK exports of beef and beef products is likely to be made in mid-April, following the recommendation for liberalisation by the EU’s standing committee on the food chain and animal health.…
GM SEED CONTAMINATION - NON-GM SEEDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PARALLEL production of genetically modified and non-GM food is practical without major precautions, claims the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. It says accidental contamination of non-GM seeds with GM material can be limited to 0.5% without production changes for sugar beet and small changes for maize.…
OBESITY CAMPAIGNS FEATURE - EU AND INTERNATIONAL ANTI-OBESITY CAMPAIGNS ASSESSMENT
BY ALAN OSBORN
OBESITY is a becoming one off the most important public health concerns worldwide and as a result, the best brains of the biggest international organisations have been developing a spate of policy ideas to fight this problem. A key example is the recent European Commission green paper on the issue, which laments the spread of obesity and invites ideas to counter it.…
BSE-LIKE SHEEP DISEASE EFSA TESTS INCONCLUSIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TESTS carried out by the European Union’s (EU) reference laboratory in Weybridge, England, onto three sheep that died with suspected with BSE-like symptoms have not proved the disease has effectively jumped species from bovine livestock. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said that one test – called the ‘discriminatory western blot’ – suggested that the two French and one Cypriot sheep did die from a BSE-like disease, but two other tests had different results.…
BSE OUTBREAKS DECLINE FAO BRITAIN CJD STATISTICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BSE is on the decline around the world, with the good news being mirrored by a fall in cases of the human-version variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed. The number of BSE cases have dropped at 50% annually over the past three years, claims the FAO, with just 474 animals dying of the disease worldwide in 2005, compared with 878 in 2004 and 1,646 in 2003.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE FOOD HEALTH CLAIMS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament environment committee has pushed 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 yesterday (22-3) 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.…