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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER years of doing nothing, and then years of erecting complex bureaucratic controls, the European Union (EU) is at last starting to get its act together on controlling fraud. Keith Nuthall reports.

IN a filthy flat, not properly cleaned for years, moving the odd cupboard and shining a torch on the floor is sure to highlight a few cockroaches, scuttling for safety towards some Godforsaken corner.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to simplify EU food law. Brussels will roll specific EU common market organisation laws into one combined food-production super-regulation, for instance. Regarding state aid for food production, seven existing directives will be simplified and reduced to three.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is advising that national risk assessors use a ‘margin of exposure’ (MoE) approach to decide contamination rules for carcinogens and genotoxins, rather than always striving to minimise these substances. In a new report, it says the standard ALARA principle (as low as reasonably achievable), does not allow for an evaluation of the actual danger posed by contamination, especially taking into account its “sometimes extremely low level of occurrence in food”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN plastics 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. A report said they paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PAINT and coating supplies companies paid together tens-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. A report said they paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ADHESIVES supplies companies paid together tens-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. A report said they paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OILS and fats companies paid 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. More than 200 suppliers from countries including Jordan, India, Indonesia, Russia and Egypt paid Iraq to secure contracts to supply humanitarian supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SOAP supplies companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were 101 (mostly toilet) soap suppliers, from countries largely from the Middle East and east Asia, named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDEPENDENT Inquiry Committee into financial irregularities bedevilling the UN Iraq Oil for Food Programme has published details of illicit surcharges demanded of oil companies by the Saddam regime to participate in the scheme. Its investigators show how, for instance, from September 2000 to August 2002, US$228.8 million in illegal surcharges were demanded from oil exporters and which were paid to Iraqi controlled bank accounts in Jordan or Lebanon, and to Iraqi embassies.…