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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) European Agency for Reconstruction will pay for the tagging of one million Serbia cattle to improve food safety and help the country increase its meat and animal exports. The tags will allow Serbian veterinary authorities to track bovine livestock from farm to market, helping them spot and contain disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is spending US$10 million on improving Iraq’s war and sanctions weakened veterinary service, to improve the health of its 17 million sheep and goats plus its 2.5 million cattle. There are particular concerns about brucellosis infection amongst sheep.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will this summer propose minimum and maximum temperature standards for livestock undertaking long journeys, health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has told the European Parliament. Also, new standards on transporting live poultry are being developed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which will also suggest linked legislative reforms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL assessment of commodity markets until 2014 is predicting that increased production worldwide will depress the price of traded meat. Written by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), this ‘Agricultural Outlook’ predicts slow but steady falls in beef prices, because of the gradual improvement in US production, and poultry, following “continued investment in integrated poultry systems, particularly in developing countries”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared safe an enzyme preparation sourced from cattle and pigs that can bind reconstituted meat, poultry, fish and seafood. It is a thrombin/fibrinogen preparation, which is obtained from blood plasma.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EFFECTIVENESS of growth promoting feed additive Farmatan in pigs and rabbits has not yet been demonstrated by tests, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has advised. The tannin-based additive is designed to promote growth in rabbits up to 8-weeks-old at 3-5g/kg feed and piglets up to 10-weeks-old at 3g/kg.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has reached a “political agreement” to accept amendments to food labelling regulations approved by the European Parliament that would compel manufacturers of vitamin and mineral-enriched foods to print recommended daily intakes on labels along with warnings not to exceed the allowance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$32.5 million to a subsidiary of Turkey’s Anadolu Cam group to build a glass bottling plant, near Ufa, central Russia. Ruscam-Ufa LLC will use the loan to fund half the US$65 million project, which said EBRD agribusiness director Hans Christian Jacobsen would improve the “quality of glass packaging offered to food and beverage producers in central and eastern Russia”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) review has ruled that existing European Union anti-BSE controls on imports of bovine meat and livestock from southern Africa’s Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland are adequate and need not be changed. However, the risk of BSE contamination in Namibia is growing it said, falling in Botswana and stable in Swaziland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared that genetically modified maize strain Bt11 maize – genetically modified to resist certain butterfly and moth pests, and containing a tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate – is safe for humans and the environment.…