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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’S controversial 2002 food supplements directive is valid, the European Court of Justice has ruled, rejecting complaints by Britain’s health food sector. Because it allows only officially listed vitamins and minerals to be sold, the industry claims around 5,000 products are threatened.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GEOFFREY Podger, the European Food Safety Authority’s first executive director, will quit his post for a new job as chief executive of Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in November. High-flier Podger had moved to EFSA as its founding senior executive from Britain’s Food Standards Agency (FSA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN UNUSUAL public row over appointing a replacement for the outgoing European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) executive director Geoffrey Podger is embittering relations between Brussels senior bureaucrats. The spat has been sparked by European Commission attempts to control the appointment, ahead of Mr Podger’s planned November departure to head Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend German retail giant Metro Euro 40 million to build five junior wholesale cash and carry stores in Vietnam. They would cover between 6,000 and 9,000 square metres in sales area and would mirror the small cash and carry format that has proved particularly successful for Metro in eastern and southern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority is reviewing its aspartame guidelines, taking account of new data linking it with cancer from the European Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences, Bologna.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENETICALLY modified (GM) foods can enhance human health and development, the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded. “Modern food biotechnology, human health and development” finds GM foods increase crop yield, food quality and the diversity of available foods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the takeover by Swiss food packaging giant Tetra Laval of Italian food and drink filling and packaging company SIG Simonazzi, without imposing conditions. This follows a Brussels investigation focusing on the potential competition problems caused through their joint interests in aseptic PET and HDPE plastic packaging filling machines and non-aseptic PET filling machines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of an outbreak of ‘Streptococcus suis’ disease amongst pigs in China, that has jumped species and caused 206 cases amongst humans, killing 38 and rendering 18 critically ill. The bacterial condition is rare in Europe and is contracted usually via cuts and grazes on people handling contaminated pigmeat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has judged a new manufacturing process for maltitol syrup safe, if the product remains the same when sorbitol, maltitol and hydrogenated glucose syrup are produced separately then blended.

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BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report has found many online pharmacies declaring they are based in Canada, selling cheap drugs under local liberal medicine sales laws, are actually based in the US or outside North America, in Vietnam and the Czech Republic, for instance.…