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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RULING commission of the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius has approved more than 20 new and amended food standards during its annual meeting, including guidelines on vitamin and mineral food supplements, meat safety and a code of practice to minimise antimicrobial resistance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED and comprehensive code of hygienic practice for meat production is amongst the 20 new food guidelines approved last week by the ruling commission of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius. It contains global guidelines on slaughtering, feeding and transporting livestock, pre-slaughter inspections, hazard assessments, dressing meat, recall systems, meat handlers’ cleanliness and microbiological testing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RULING commission of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius has approved 20 new food guidelines, including a detailed and comprehensive code of hygienic practice for meat. It contains global guidelines on slaughtering, feeding and transporting livestock, pre-slaughter inspections, hazard assessments, dressing meat, recall systems, meat handlers’ cleanliness and microbiological testing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED plans for cooperation on food safety issues have been agreed between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Commission’s directorate generals for food safety and enterprise have been agreed at a summit in Washington.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MONTREAL, Canada-based supermarket chain Metro Inc. will pay CDN$1.2 billion in cash and CDN$500 million worth of Metro class-A shares to buy the A&P Canada supermarket chain, headquartered in Ontario. A&P Canada operates 236 food stores in Ontario under the A&P, Dominion, Food Basics, The Barn and Ultra Food & Drug brands, with annual sales of CDN$4.4 billion and more than 32,000 employees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESIDENT George W Bush has indicated the USA may abandon protective food production subsidies at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round. He told an ITV interview ahead of the Gleneagles G8 summit: “Let’s join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we’re going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE US Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission’s directorate generals for food safety and enterprise are to cooperate closely in future, an EU-USA summit has agreed. US and EU officials will also discuss dovetailing European and American hazard awareness and control point procedures (HACCP) for meat manufacturing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED and comprehensive code on the packaging and labelling of vitamin and mineral food supplements is amongst the 20 new food guidelines approved this month by the ruling commission of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius.

Meeting in Malaysia, national delegates agreed rules insisting that such packaging be not only hygienic, but that it “safeguards the other qualities” of supplements.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has given EU national courts some leeway to insist a product is regulated as a medicine, when sold as food in another EU member state. If the product contains pharmacological properties national courts can insist it is marketed under pharmaceuticals directive 2001/83.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE and Italy will share Euro 1.57 million of European Union (EU) money for promoting the sale of their hams within the EU over the next three years, along with their cheeses and wines. The countries will provide matching national funding.…