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EU PREPACKAGING SIZES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AMENDMENTS, BREAD, TEA, SPREADABLE FATS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has added pre-packed bread, spreadable fats, drinking milk, butter, ground or unground roasted coffee, dried pasta, rice, brown sugar and tea to the list of food and drink products that will retain set pre-packed sizes within the EU.…
BIRD FLU RESPONSES - VACCINATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEBATES are continuing in European Union (EU) institutions over whether vaccination is a safe response to Europe’s growing bird flu problem. With Germany, France, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy and other countries all reporting cases, the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health approved the first vaccination campaigns.…
EFSA BONE GELATINE HEALTH APPROVAL BSE
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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EU PREPACKAGING SIZES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AMENDMENTS, BREAD, TEA, SPREADABLE FATS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has added pre-packed bread, spreadable fats, drinking milk, butter, ground or unground roasted coffee, dried pasta, rice, brown sugar and tea to the list of food and drink products that will retain set pre-packed sizes within the European Union (EU).…
NEW EFSA DIRECTOR FRENCH HEALTH EXECUTIVE GESLAIN-LANÉELLE
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 the Ile de France region, (which includes Paris).…
LECITHIN CARGILL DEGUSSA TAKEOVER DEAL EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about potential competition problems regarding confectionary ingredient lecithin have sparked the European Commission into staging an in-depth inquiry into a planned takeover by US-based Cargill of Germany’s Degussa AG’s food ingredients arm.
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ENZYMES FOOD TEXTURE - EU RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has developed novel enzymes boosting food texture and quality. CROSSENZ project members are now investigating marketing these biotechnological developments. Cross-linking enzymes can improve the "gel strength, thermal stability, viscosity, volume, and water-holding capacity" of foodstuffs, claim its researchers.…
EFSA GELATINE BSE SAFETY ASSESSMENT
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.…
EFSA FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEAS FMD IMPORT PRECAUTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released practical guidance on how the European Union can shore up its defences against the import of foot-and-mouth disease. EFSA says better veterinary official checks at external borders are required. It also suggested better targeting checks using sniffer dogs and scanners.…
EXPORTING DELAYS - WORLD BANK REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ADMINISTRATIVE export delays in developing countries damage economic progress, says a World Bank report. An export container from Bangui, the Central African Republic, requires 116 days to be customs cleared and loaded on a ship at the nearest port; it takes 71 from Burkina Faso’s Ouagadougou; and 93 from Almaty, Kazakhstan.…