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EU CONSUMER SALMONELLA PORK ALERT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s ‘rapid alert system for food and feed’ RASFF has reported a series of salmonella contaminations within pigmeat. Italian authorities have detected it in meat from Germany (three outbreaks), Belgium and Spain. RASFF has also reported salmonella discovered in Estonia within Lithuanian chicken thighs, and in Italy amongst Hungarian frozen eviscerated ducks and chitterlings.…
EMEA RISK MANAGEMENT - PHARMACOVIGILENCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHARMACEUTICAL manufacturers should hone their monitoring of the effects of a new medicine on patients by focusing on potential risks identified by sophisticated pre- and post-marketing approval analysis, says the European Medicines Agency (EMEA). It has issued a detailed guideline on conducting such risk assessments, saying: “Planning of pharmacovigilance might be improved if it were more closely based on product specific issues identified from…data and pharmacological principles”.…
EU LEGISLATION SIMPLIFICATION - ENVIRONMENTAL DIRECTIVES AND REGULATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to rewrite the European Union’s (EU) environmental health law book, in a comprehensive effort to simplify existing EU legislation across the board. Aiming to ease the impact of often complex and baffling regulations on European local government and industry, Brussels has embarked on a three-year programme to scrap obsolete legislation, rewrite over-complex laws and combine overlapping directives and regulations.…
COURT OF AUDITORS - ORGANICS SUBSIDY IRREGULARITIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Auditors, the European Union’s (EU) financial watchdog, has advised EU payments to promote organic food production are not being properly administered or monitored. Furthermore, it says the cost of ensuring subsidised production is indeed organic “poses particular problems” and is “far more resource intensive” than checking standard food subsidies and “can rarely lead to even reasonable assurance at a reasonable cost”.…
BSE BRITAIN BEEF BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved talks on ending nine-year-old restrictions on exporting British beef into the EU, after Brussels’s food and veterinary office concluded the UK had made key progress in fighting mad cow disease.…
WTO DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND AGRICULTURAL TALKS THINK PIECE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) agricultural liberalisation talks revealed plans this week to run the Lausanne marathon, in a city neighbouring the WTO’s Geneva. And whilst there are many of us who think sport running is for heroes or lunatics (or both), we can at least admire their stamina.…
EFSA - WASHED EGG SALMONELLA HYGIENE ADVICE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released advice on minimising the risk of contracting salmonella from washed eggs. Its guidelines reflect concerns that washing eggs can actually promote contamination with bacteria, by passing micro-organisms between shells and damaging outer surfaces.…
ISO FOOD CHAIN STANDARD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has now published its promised new standard for food safety management systems, designed to ensure there are no weak links in food supply chains, including the packaging sector. ISO 22000 specifies requirements for safety management for canning, boxing, bagging, bottling, sourcing, manufacturing, delivering and selling food products.…
WATER MELON - TOMATO - ANTI-OXIDANT USA RESEARCH
BY MONICA DOBIE
FOOD scientists have discovered that innocuous and bland-tasting watermelon actually contains high levels of lycopene, a cancer-fighting anti-oxidant found in tomatoes but not much else. The US Agricultural Research Service (ARS) says watermelon could prove an effective alternative to people with tomato allergies or bouts of acid reflux, given it offers similar quantities of lycopene to tomatoes.…
CARIBBEAN FEATURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROLE of the Caribbean as a staging point for ill-gotten gains goes back to the trans-Atlantic misadventures of the first European ships over 400 years ago. It would appear some habits die hard. Wesley Gibbings reports from Port of Spain, Trinidad.…