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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has expressed concern that isopropylthioxanthone (ITX) packaging ink present in 30 million litres of Nestlé liquid baby milk seized by Italian police may cause a health hazard. The EU agency also wrote to Nestlé criticising it for "misrepresenting" its opinion: the food giant said EFSA had declared the baby milk posed "no immediate health risk".…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

CHINA looks to be a likely candidate for the first country in the world to approve genetically modified rice, despite the fact that the State Agricultural GM Crop Biosafety Committee, a technical body which evaluates GM rice for research, did not approve the idea at its three-day meeting in Beijing, December 10-12, 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUTO manufacturing firms will be closely monitoring next week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong for signs that the WTO’s long-running Doha Development Round talks are about to crack open national automobile markets. Key auto industry countries – the US, the European Union, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India and Brazil – have been making steady progress this year in identifying non-tariff barriers to trade they would like to remove, such as burdensome customs procedures, technical engineering rules and licences.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST phase of an Africa Stockpiles Programme has been approved by the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) – the initiative aims to eliminate in the continent stockpiles of obsolete pesticides, including persistent organic pollutants (POPs).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control of seafood firm Nordsee, of Germany, by UK subsidiary of Japanese investment bank Nomura, a private investor Mr Heiner Kamps, and TML-Invest, of Switzerland, (owned by German food company the Müller Group).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has declared illegal under EU freedom of trade legislation Sweden’s health controls on meat and dairy products imported from other EU member states. Sweden insists an importer must give its food control authorities at least 24 hours’ notice of the arrival of cargoes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on national governments to devote more resources to operating the European Union’s (EU) Regulation controlling the processing, use and disposal of animal by-products, such as skin, bones and cartilage, to reduce their environmental health risks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEMORANDUM of understanding has been agreed between the European Union (EU) and China, aimed at improving health controls on the Euro 3 billion’s worth foodstuffs traded between them. Among the mutual pledges are timely alerts of local food health problems, and the creation of standing communication channels between food health safety experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUGAR, honey and biscuit supply companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were 79 suppliers of these confectionary-related products (76 supplied sugar) named in a report, who paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union (EU) food labelling rules have come into force insisting complete contents of foodstuffs are listed. The new directive scraps the ‘25% rule’, previously allowing compound ingredients comprising less than 25% of the product to be omitted from labels.…