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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has hit back in a highly undiplomatic trans-Atlantic row over whether it or the US is offering more concessions to boost the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round. A European Commission note said US Trade Representative criticism – reported in just-food.com…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has developed a number of novel enzymes that can boost food texture and quality, with its participants claiming they can even make low-fat yoghurts seem rich and creamy. CROSSENZ project members are now investigating bringing these biotechnological developments to market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MEAT industry will have to take account of new complex maximum levels for dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in food and feed announced by the European Commission this week. Brussels has set maximum levels for dioxins in meat, dairy products and animal feed since July 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has added pre-packed bread, spreadable fats and tea to the list of food and drink products that will retain set pre-packed sizes within the European Union (EU). This changes a proposed directive from the European Commission that had originally called for these to remain for only wines, soluble coffee, white sugar and most products sold in aerosols.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INDUSTRIAL livestock production in developing countries often causes severe environmental damages, especially when meat and dairy factories are crowded together around cities or close to water sources, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned. A report ‘Livestock Policy Brief 02, Pollution from industrialized livestock production’ urges governments to promote more environmentally friendly dairy and meat production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FRENCHWOMAN is to take the vacant top job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), replacing Briton Geoffrey Podger. Mrs Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle will be the new EFSA executive director; she is currently regional and interdepartmental director for agriculture and forestry for France’s the Ile de France region, which includes Paris.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) expert panel has recommended that the production of gelatine from beef bones, even the skull and spine, is safe for human consumers. In an inquiry assessing the BSE risk of such foodstuffs, EFSA’s scientific panel on biohazards has concluded: "Human exposures due to gelatine produced from bones including the skull and vertebral column sources from cattle of any age are very low and do not support the continuation of (any) restriction prohibiting" gelatine production from these bones.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL research project aimed at boosting livestock quality without resorting to genetically modified technology will unveil its goals next week (March 2). A paper from the European Union-supported Sustainable Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction (EFABAR) Technology Platform will be launched at the Salon de l’Agriculture, Paris.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROBAROMETER FOOD POLL

WHEN EU consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%, said a new opinion poll from EU survey organisation Eurobarometer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) expert panel has recommended that the production of gelatine from beef bones, even the skull and spine, is safe for human consumers, as regards BSE contamination. *http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/biohaz/biohaz_opinions/1333_en.html

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