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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNIMAGINABLE happened in Canada this past winter. There was no professional ice hockey, the national sport. The entire season was hockey-free due to a lockout by the National Hockey League (NHL) team owners, who tried unsuccessfully to persuade NHL players to agree to terms that would potentially hamper their already fat salaries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MORE fast food restaurants there are in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death, so says a recent study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. However illness is not the result of eating junk food alone but the lifestyle associated with it, it says.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RECEIVED wisdom on the rumbling row over the CAP pits Tony Blair’s neo-liberal agribusiness technicians, armed with computerised high-tech wizardry, against Jacques Chirac’s subsidy-cosseted peasants, idly scratching their pigs. Naturally, the reality is less simple: British farming is efficient, but it is not always as profitable as the French.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is staging a European Union investigation into the toxicity of the food dye ‘para Red’ (p-Red), supported by the development of analytical methods by laboratories from Britain, the Netherlands, France and Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Parliament committee has suggested watering-down a proposed European Union (EU) directive insisting that labelling claims about nutrition and other benefits are true. Its environment, public health and food safety committee has proposed scrapping an insistence that all health claims are made following profiles of their nutrients previously created by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA), of the United States, is planning to authorise US food manufacturers to make health claims that sucralose can help prevent tooth decay as a safe alternative to sugar, adding it to a list containing other noncariogenic carbohydrate sweeteners.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Parliament committee has suggested watering-down a proposed EU directive insisting that labelling claims about nutrition and other benefits are true. Its food safety committee has proposed scrapping an insistence that all health claims are made following profiles of their nutrients previously created by the European Food Safety Authority.…

KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD food standards body Codex Alimentarius has drawn up draft maximum levels for cadmium contamination within marine bivalve molluscs (except oysters and scallops) and cephalopods, such as octopus and squid. Codex’s committee on food additives and contaminants wants comments to be submitted by member governments and relevant international organisations by June 15.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ACCORDING to global consumption figures, Israel is the world capital of teenage soft drink demand, with hot weather combined with a competitive market to create something of a utopia for drinks companies. An international survey of soft drinks consumption published by the Economist by 15 year olds of both sexes suggests that Israel has the world’s biggest teenage consumers of carbonated and still drinks, colas, sodas, juices and the like on a per capita basis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) manufacturers of vitamin and mineral-enriched foods should include recommended daily intakes of added substances on product labels, alongside a warning not to exceed this allowance, the European Parliament’s environment and food safety committee has proposed.…