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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) wants vaccinations used to eradicate bird flu, in a European Union outbreak. Vaccination against the virulent H5 and H7 subtypes sweeping Asia “has only had a relatively limited use”, but the disease’s risk means EFSA wants it used in conjunction with biosecurity measures, such as protecting livestock from wild birds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed continuing existing duty-free access to EU markets to food exports from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and Kosovo for another five years except certain fisheries products, sugar, and ‘baby beef’, where some duties or restrictions would continue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has recommended vaccination be used to eradicate bird flu in a EU poultry outbreak, in combination with biosecurity measures, such as protecting livestock from potentially infected wild birds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of sole control of Netherlands-based EU food ingredient business IMCD Group by global financial services group ABN AMRO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is coordinating efforts to monitor the movement of wild birds during the oncoming migration season, because of concerns that this could be vehicle by which bird flu finally enters Europe’s poultry population. A meeting of the EU’s standing committee on the food chain and animal health has released detailed guidelines for surveys that it wants carried out by member states, to pinpoint any entry of the disease, assisting resulting controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CALL for biogas producers to take more care handling animal waste raw materials, such as manure and slurry, has been made by the European Food Safety Authority, because of concern about spreading harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of environmental law proposals it will abandon under a drive to simplify European Union (EU) legislation. Dropped laws awaiting agreement from EU ministers and the European Parliament include a year 2000 proposed regulation organising official controls of meat and dairy products; a 1997 proposed directive imposing technical changes on common rules for food labelling; plus tabled ratifications of both a water and health protocol to the 1992 UN convention on transboundary watercourses and international lakes; and a protocol on civil liability and compensation for industrial accidents on transboundary watercourses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been forged between the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the European Commission to establish a rapid response programme to prevent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) entering Europe. Brussels will spend US$5.4 million on the project, which will focus on stopping the virus spreading from the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) expert panel has accepted studies claiming that the use of tallow in meat production poses a minimal risk of passing BSE-based diseases onto humans. Its scientific panel on biological hazards noted an unrealistic worst-case scenario involving human exposure to tallow made from a mix of tissues with no specified risk material removed from cattle in a highly infected country with unreliable surveillance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the import into the European Union (EU) of a genetically modified oilseed rape GT73 for animal feed. Brussels will also allow the Monsanto developed rape to be processed in the EU. It is tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate, and, said the Commission, “is already widely used in North America with no reports of any adverse effects on health or the environment”.…