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BY KEITH NUTHALL

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

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain. Unlike the previous big WTO meeting, in Cancun, Mexico, trade ministers did not leave in rancour having achieved little.…

EU SUGAR REFORM MARKET REPORT – CAP

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has renewed a call, first made in June, for Italy’s Ramazzini Institute to release primary data associated with its findings on the potential dangers of the sweetener aspartame. EFSA said it needs the information to conduct its own assessment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned that the use of lycopene obtained from Blakeslea trispora as a food colouring may be unsafe. Its scientific panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has noted that it could increase exposure compared with "mean intake from natural dietary sources by a considerable margin".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared safe the 30 million litres of Nestlé liquid baby milk contaminated with packaging ink seized by Italian police from warehouses and supermarkets. The European Commission said EFSA experts had concluded the contaminant isopropylthioxanthone (ITX) should not be toxic at the levels detected.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRADE ministers meeting at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong have agreed the Doha Development Round’s overall goals on agricultural liberalisation must be negotiated by April 30. Ministers also agreed food export subsidies will be abolished by the end of 2013, with "a substantial part" being scrapped well before that.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is seeking to improve knowledge of what causes food allergies, a significant problem for the seafood sector. The EuroPrevall project will try to identify risk factors (environmental, microbial, genetic) that cause allergic reactions, helping pinpoint the circumstances sparking these problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called on the food industry to further minimise non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) in food, because of health concerns about excess contamination. A new comprehensive report on the problem notes that unlike with dioxin-like PCBs, the levels of non-dioxin-like PCBs have been lightly researched.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is seeking to improve knowledge of what causes food allergies, a significant problem for the seafood sector. The EuroPrevall project will try to identify risk factors (environmental, microbial, genetic) that cause allergic reactions, helping pinpoint the circumstances sparking these problems.…