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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed three-year zero-duty import quotas for confectionary ingredients. Products include dates, frozen boysenberries, frozen pineapple pieces and palm oil. Also one-year duty free quotas will be opened for 2,000 tonnes of sour cherries and 2,000 tonnes of sweet cherries, for chocolate production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CONFIDENTIALITY agreement signed in 2003 between the European Commission, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) and the US Food and Drug Administration will be extended another five years to 2010. This follows “positive experience gained” from the initial deal, which allows the parties to exchange information during their mutual regulatory duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a trade deal with Jordan, allowing EU food buyers to source Jordanian citrus fruits at zero import duties and strawberries at 40%, within large quotas, expanding until 2009.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called for efforts to ensure the further minimisation of certain ‘non-dioxin-like’ polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) in food, because of health concerns about excess contamination. The problem, said EFSA, is that it was hard to separate these lightly-studied elements from their cousins, the oft-examined ‘dioxin-like’ PCBs, especially when checking their presence in the body.…

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. * http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/contam/contam_opinions/1229/contam_op_ej284_ndl-pcb_en1.pdf

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BY STEVEN SWINDELLS in Johannesburg

DROUGHT-HIT and AIDS-ravaged southern Africa is faced with a looming humanitarian crisis with almost 12 million people in need of food aid. But genetically modified (GM) crops remain off the menu for most African governments who remain reluctant to allow their farmers to do business with GM giants Monsanto and Syngenta.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has launched a safety review of the drug Tamiflu, seen as the front-line defence against any bird flu outbreak in humans. It has asked manufacturer Roche to check “all available data on serious psychiatric disorders, including all case reports with a fatal outcome where Tamiflu was involved”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a series of zero-duty import quotas for a wide range of food products for which there is demand within the EU, but where local production is either weak or non-existent. Products range from crab and bamboo shoots to noodles and pineapples.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has suggested liberalising the European Union (EU) regulation controlling the processing, use and disposal of animal by-products, such as fat and skin, as regards the cosmetics industry, because the sector’s use of this waste poses little risk to human health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has launched a safety review of the drug Tamiflu, seen as the front-line defence against any bird flu outbreak in humans. It has asked manufacturer Roche to check “all available data on serious psychiatric disorders, including all case reports with a fatal outcome where Tamiflu was involved”.…