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BY KEITH NUTHALL
TWO Indian tobacco companies and four cigarette manufacturing suppliers from Jordan and Italy 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.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to simplify European Union (EU) rules on a range of energy topics, part of a major overhaul of EU legislation that has been unveiled by the current Commission. In a bid to make European laws more user-friendly, Brussels has said it will:

*Rewrite and extend the field of a 1992 directive on labelling and product information regarding the energy consumption by household appliances;

*Simplify and reduce red tape associated with the EU’s 2001 energy efficiency labelling programme for office equipment;

*Repeal and rewrite seven regulations and directives on ensuring adequate oil and gas stocks, especially in an energy crisis;

*Recast 10 directives, decisions and recommendations on nuclear safety into one directive on “the protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation”; and

*Combine four regulations on maximum levels of radioactivity in food and animal feed following a nuclear accident.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has backed adding to a European Union (EU) regulation ‘on the use of nutrition and health claims’ a series of guidelines on claims made by food processors about fats and oils used in their products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will next year proposed reforms to EU rules controlling the processing, use and disposal of animal by-products, such as fish heads and feathers. “More (capacity) is needed to guarantee… their permitted use, separation or safe disposal”, said a report.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has hailed a blueprint agreed by experts at a Beijing conference as groundbreaking, by promoting food security and environmental sustainability. It called on governments to prioritise public expenditure on rural roads, information technology, research and training.…

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 UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says that about 13 million hectares of the world’s forests are now being lost to deforestation, but the rate of net forest loss is slowing through new planting and natural expansion of existing forests.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries, the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Fish Centre, and the World Bank have launched a Global Programme on Fisheries (PROFISH). This will help developing countries design and implement sustainable fisheries plans, and combat illicit over-fishing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released advice on minimising salmonella in washed eggs. * http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/biohaz/biohaz_opinions/1196/biohaz_op_ej269_washing_eggs_en1.pdf…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has issued a report on the operation of the European Union’s (EU) Regulation controlling the processing, use and disposal of animal by-products, such as fish heads and feathers, to reduce the environmental health risk they pose.…