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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is scrapping unapproved legislative proposals to simplify EU political business: a proposed directive on agricultural export credits; a regulation on crediting forfeited Common Agricultural Policy payments; planned rice production subsidies; and a regulation on animal product health controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of proposed laws affecting the drinks industry that it will abandon under a drive by the current Barroso regime to simplify European Union (EU) laws and its political process. Brussels will drop a proposed directive insisting rules for drinks ingredients labelling for beverages containing more than 1.2% of alcohol by volume are adopted within a certain timeframe.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed reforms to a blacklist of food and related businesses guilty of financial irregularities associated with payments of European Union (EU) agricultural subsidies. The aim is to alert all EU member states of potential fraudsters, and Brussels has tabled clarifications about when such alerts should be issued.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control of seafood firm Nordsee, of Germany, by a consortium involving the 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 Commission is planning to rewrite European Union (EU) laws affecting the meat industry to simplify existing EU legislation across the board, easing the understanding of often-complex regulations. Detailed plans released include reforming a 1979 directive on compound feeds, simplifying labelling and authorisation requirements, and reviewing feeds covered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL cereal production in 2005 is forecast at 1.9 billion tonnes, slightly down since the previous forecast and 3.4% less than 2004’s record output, said the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched five European Union (EU)-funded food-related research projects, all of which should help raise environmental health standards. They include:

*Europrevall, which aims to reduce the potential within foods to spark allergic reactions, improve food allergy diagnoses and investigate how processing methods can increase allergenicity – http://www.europrevall.org/;…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRINTING supplies 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. More than 30 suppliers of printing machines, paper, inks, etc.,…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD companies paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to Iraq’s Saddam regime an Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. Poultry and related production equipment suppliers were amongst those accused of making illicit payments when securing humanitarian contracts.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BURGERS and pork pies could become healthier by adding a tasteless but fibre-rich extract from seaweed, scientists from the University of Newcastle have claimed. Their research has examined a brown seaweed Lessonia and Laminaria, found in east Asia, south America, Norway and Scotland.…