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BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN’S Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) has called for the food industry to be cautious in using food nanotechnologies – warning advances could be stillborn if consumers doubt their safety. Reflecting on the problems caused in Europe by consumer concern over genetically modified organisms, the institute said for most current food nanotechnology patent applications, there was "negligible safety concern".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is predicting that the healthy state of the European Union’s (EU) beef market will continue until 2012, with demand outstripping EU production. In its latest medium-term food market forecast, the Commission added that pig and poultry production and consumption should "keep growing over the medium term, though at a lower pace than in the 1990s".…

BY MONICA DOBIE

AMERICAN chef and restaurateur, David Burke, has developed flavour sprays that mimic the taste of high calorie foods without the fat, calories or carbohydrates. Some flavours include banana split, ‘birthday cake’, chocolate fudge, cookies and cream, marshmallow, strawberry shortcake, and cheesecake.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN European Union (EU) consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%. As usual with culturally diverse Europe, however, there were wide national variations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LEASING of transport services in Uganda is to be funded by the European Investment Bank (EIB), which is planning to lend Euro 10 million’s worth of Ugandan shillings (UGX 21.4 billion) to the Kampala-based DFCU Leasing Company Ltd.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 48 food European Union (EU) import quotas for China and American products. The move has been negotiated with Washington and Beijing because of the EU’s incorporation in 2004 of 10 eastern and southern European countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN European Union (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

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

THE FOOD industry will have from November 1 to take account of new maximum levels for dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in dairy and meat announced by the European Commission. The EU already has maximum levels for dioxins in these products, but not dioxin-like PCBs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW EFSA BOSS BUDGET ROW – LATEST ADVICE

THE FRENCHWOMAN appointed to take the vacant top executive director job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will need all her political skills to solve a potential budget crisis facing the agency.…