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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called for improvements in “hygienic food handling practices in the home and in the food services” to prevent contamination in the food industry with the pathogen campylobacter. *http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/biohaz/biohaz_opinions/857/biohaz_op_ej177_campylobacter_en1.pdf…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GUIDANCE for companies applying for market approvals for new packaging substances that are in direct contact with foodstuffs has been issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). This aims to help companies comply with EU regulation 1935/2004, agreed last October, which legalised substances that react with food, informing customers about freshness, for example.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HOME-BASED domestic cooks should arm themselves with enough environmental health knowledge to prevent their kitchens from becoming a breeding ground for botulism, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned. In a detailed paper on dealing with the anaerobic spore-forming bacteria clostridium, it advised both families and food businesses to assess their hygiene practices to ensure they minimise risks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has been asked to support simplifying global rules on carrying animals, food and other perishable goods across national frontiers. The European Commission wants drafted changes to the International Convention on the Harmonisation of Frontier Controls of Goods to become EU law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that beef cattle from Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua have an increasing risk of being infected with BSE, although it is currently “unlikely”. EFSA noted potentially contaminated beef livestock had been imported in the 1990s from north America and Europe, and that local controls were “unstable”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called for the promotion of good hygiene practice (GHP) in the farming of bivalve molluscs, including oysters, to avoid contamination with the pathogen campylobacter. This, it said in a formal study, “can represent a risk to the consumer”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that the salmon feed supplement L-Histidine monohydrochloride monohydrate is safe. It contains 74% of the essential amino acid L-Histidine, shown to prevent cataracts in fish under practical farming conditions, said EFSA, which is recommending the product receive the European Union (EU) market authorisation sought by producer Kyowa Kyogo Ltd.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the sale of joint control of Netherlands-based confectionary producer Leaf International BV to Nordic Capital Fund of Jersey by international investment group CVC European Equity Partners, which has wholly owned the food business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s rapid consumer alert system for food has warned of 55 cases involving the discovery in Italy, Spain and Germany of aflatoxins within pistachio nuts from Iran during March and April.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST soil atlas of Europe has been published by the European Commission, which includes advice on how to protect soil against erosion and pollution, as well as detailed regional maps of soil types. Welcoming its launch, European Union (EU) research Commissioner Janez Potocnik said: “We definitely undervalue the contribution of soil to our bio-diversity, but unless we protect it better, we will soon realise its importance in the worst possible way – by seeing the problems caused by its loss.…