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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN consumers will pay more for animal welfare-friendly food products but want such products more clearly labelled, according to an EU-wide Eurobarometer opinion survey: 74% of consumers believe they can improve animal welfare through shopping and 57% would pay more for animal welfare-friendly food products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COSMETICS industry has become a key focus for cooperation between regulators in the United States and the European Union (EU), following an EU-US summit staged in Washington this month (June). A detailed communiqué said that cooperation would be ramped up between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the industry/cosmetics unit of the European Commission’s enterprise directorate-general (DG).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) will in September will publish a new standard for food safety management systems, designed to ensure there are no weak links in food supply chains. A final draft is being checked by national member organisations.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
PROPOSALS for a new directive on veterinary legislation and disease prevention in fish farming have been promised in an exclusive interview with Fish Farming International by the European Commissioner for fisheries Dr Joe Borg; it will be presented to the European Union (EU) Council of Fisheries Ministers before the summer.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MINISCULE wasps may one day be embraced by supermarket and food warehouse owners, because it has been discovered that their snack of choice is the pesky Indianmeal moth. Scientists from the USA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), found that using the harmless and virtually invisible Trichogramma wasps in conjunction with the also tiny Habrobracon wasp, can prevent foods such as grains, cereals and petfoods from being infested by the moths.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Romania’s European Drinks Group Euro 195 million to fund a long-term investment and expansion programme. Its aim, said a bank memorandum, was to ensure the drinks and food producer changed from “a (large) family run entrepreneurial company into a well organised large corporate”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EAU de Cologne, manufactured in the Ukraine and called Trojnoj, has been recalled from German shops and consumers because it contains banned nitromusk compounds outlawed by the European Union (EU) cosmetics directive. The European Commission rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products RAPEX has publicised the recall across Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is encouraging reticent American negotiators into striking a liberalisation deal on global food liberalisation, saying US producers would gain US$500 million. Subsidy abolition will raise process and tariff reform will boost access for US exporters, said the OECD.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro 26.1 million on 26 programmes promoting the sale within the EU of organic food products, olive oil, milk and cheese, ham, fruit and vegetables, plus some drinks products. There will be matching funding from participating countries Britain, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Romania’s European Drinks Group Euro 195 million to fund a long-term investment and expansion programme. Its aim, said a bank memorandum, was to ensure the drinks and food producer changed from “a family run entrepreneurial company into a well organised large corporate”.…