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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Canada have approved new simplified import and export rules for pork products and bovine semen, the first time they have agreed to mutually recognise each other’s food production standards. Simplified import certificates will be used for these products.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada are working towards a deal where they mutually recognise each other’s fish and live bivalve molluscs health production standards. The negotiations – handled by the European Commission for the EU – follow the agreement by both sides of their first ever food heath mutual recognition deal, for pork products and bovine semen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Parliament committee has acted to remove wine from the scope of 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 voted to exempt wine, claiming that “wines, (and) aromatised wines” are already subject to specific EU provisions governing their labelling, designation and presentation, as well as promotion and information”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the May 31 deadline looms for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries to make formal offers to liberalise their service industries, the Comité Européen des Assurances (CEA) has called on Brazil, India and China to be as generous as they can.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Parliament committee has acted to remove wine from 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 voted to exempt wine, claiming that “wines, (and) aromatised wines” are already subject to specific EU provisions governing their labelling, designation and presentation, as well as promotion and information”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has admitted “great relief” that the independent committee probing the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme scandal found no evidence of his wrongly influencing the award of a contract to a firm employing his son Kojo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) could have to reform its directive on market approvals for food supplements (2002/46/EC). A formal opinion from a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has claimed the law breaks EU treaty commitments on fair trade by failing to supply effective guidelines for adding new supplements to an approved supplements list for pan-EU sales.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a Euro 1.01 million research project to develop guidelines on producing food for elderly people. Researchers in the NUTRI-SENEX scheme will consider the loss of smell and taste of older consumers, which sparks a loss of appetite.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU could have to reform its directive on market approvals for food supplements (2002/46/EC). A formal opinion from a European Court of Justice advocate general has claimed the law breaks EU fair trade treaty commitments by failing to benchmark the addition of new supplements to an approved list.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FEEDING of elderly and infirm patients at care-homes will come under the microscope in a Euro 1 million research programme funded by the European Commission focusing on their nutrition. The NUTRI-SENEX initiative is expected to make detailed recommendations on manufacturing special foodstuffs for older people and offering more dietary choices in care-homes.…