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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FIRST detailed European Union (EU) report on serious food and animal diseases that can harm or kill humans has been released by the European Food Safety Authority. This paper includes data on 2004 for pathogens, including salmonella, campylobacter, listeria, VTEC, mycobacteria, brucellosis, yersinia, trichinella, echinococcus, toxoplasma, cysticerci sarcocystis, rabies and e-coli.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an in-depth competition investigation into the planned acquisition by the US-based Cargill group of the food ingredients business of German company Degussa AG. Brussels fears the deal may restrict competition in supplies of food emulsifier lecithin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s food and drink consumer alert service has warned of further contaminations in Italy of various non-alcoholic drinks from potentially toxic packaging print ingredient isopropyl thioxanthone. Its ‘rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF)’ reported it leaching into a banana and strawberry soya drink, standard orange juice, and "red" orange juice made in Germany; plus orange juice, general ‘fruit’ juice and chocolate milk from Austria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius has asked the international food industry – via their governments – to comment on its latest batch of proposed production guidelines, this time focusing on baby food, nutrition and traceability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRADE ministers meeting at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong have set a tight timetable for agreeing of the Doha Development Round’s overall goals on agricultural liberalisation, saying these long discussed ‘modalities’ must be approved by April 30.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ECONOMIC growth, especially in emerging markets, is forcing international food businesses to take a closer look at opportunities in potentially unstable countries, and the global aid community is keen to help. One international institution is well positioned, especially given the increasing demand for development projects to be largely private financed: the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, of the World Bank.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FIRST detailed European Union (EU) report on serious food and animal diseases that can harm or kill humans has been released by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). In its introduction, EFSA said: "In order to prevent these diseases, it is important to identify which animals and foodstuffs are the main source of these infections".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EU food-related spending will fall from 2007-13 under a medium-term budget agreement struck by member states, declining from Euro 43.1 billion in 2007 to Euro 40.6 billion in 2013. Between those years, spending will be Euro 42.7 billion in 2008; 42.2 billion in 2009; 41.8 billion in 2010; 41.4 billion in 2011; and 41 billion in 2012, (at 2004 market prices).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union food and health industry representatives are being asked whether they think voluntary codes are adequate to limit the advertising and marketing of energy-dense and micronutrient poor foods. A European Commission Green Paper on health and obesity asks whether sales of these products should be controlled, if self-regulation fails.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled in cases of no-fault liability, where food poisoning occurred despite good practice, a "supplier (should) be liable only….where the producer cannot be identified". Where a producer or supplier had been responsible for poisoning, however, the ECJ found suppliers could be "answerable without restriction for the producer’s fault-based liability".…