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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is staging an 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. The data will help set an EU maximum contamination level.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has been releasing rulings on market approval applications for plastic materials used for packaging in contact with food and drink. Its concern ensuring compliance with directive 89/109/EEC on ‘materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs’, which aims to prevent harmful contamination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU manufacturers of vitamin and mineral-enriched foods should include recommended daily intakes of added substances on product labels, the European Parliament’s food safety committee has suggested. It wants to amend a proposed regulation on vitamins and minerals in food listing more than 100 vitamin and mineral substances that can be added.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards body Codex Alimentarius’ committee on food hygiene has released draft guidelines on controlling listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods and also more general advice: draft principles and guidelines regarding microbiological risk management in food manufacturing and handling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BUCKFAST, the tonic wine that has been attacked by Scottish ministers for promoting teenage drunkenness is facing another political challenge, this time at the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels. The European Parliament is due to consider a directive on enriching food and drink with vitamins and other substances, that would – if passed unchanged – make Buckfast’s existing recipe illegal, along with those of other British tonic wines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BUCKFAST, the tonic wine that has been attacked by Scottish ministers for promoting teenage drunkenness is facing another political challenge, this time at the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels. The European Parliament is due to consider a directive on enriching food and drink with vitamins and other substances, that would – if passed unchanged – make Buckfast’s existing recipe illegal, along with those of other British tonic wines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU rapid consumer food alert system RASFF has warned of the discovery in Britain in paprika, chilli and cayenne pepper powders from Spain of the mycotoxin Ochratoxin A.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USE by the spirits industry of certain marker chemicals to check for counterfeit products is being threatened by a proposed European Union (EU) directive on vitamin enriched food and drink. That said, an amendment tabled by the European Parliament’s environment and food safety committee would save such practices, should it receive support from the full assembly and the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN study has suggested the more fast-food restaurants found in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death.

The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) research into Ontario data notes a combination of eating junk food and a lifestyle of gluttony, inactivity and fast eating contributes to illness.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE GREATER the number of fast food restaurants present in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death, according research published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health (ICES).

However, the study notes that illness is not necessarily the result of eating junk food alone but the lifestyle associated with it.…