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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked European Union (EU) ministers to consider improving crisis management tools available to farmers and other food producers, especially protecting them against natural disasters. It has presented ministers with three options, asking them to choose a preferred tactic, which could be worked up into a formal proposal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has suspended two staffers over the Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal, while Secretary General Kofi Annan considers their fate. Former programme chief Benon Sevan and former UN sanctions branch head Joseph Stephanides may formally respond to corruption allegations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGISLATION may be proposed by the European Commission that tells EU food companies to stop advertising junk food to children, Brussels’ new health and consumer affairs commissioner Markos Kyprianou has said.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN Food Inspection Agency has warned 11,000 units of Sealtest chocolate milk, made by Natrel, was contaminated and distributed across Ontario, causing some food poisoning. Natrel said the contaminant was 99.5% water and 0.5% a soap and vinegar-like cleanser.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLEAR lessons on the need to improve accounting procedures at the United Nations have been spelt out by the interim report into alleged fraud and corruption at the now defunct UN Iraq Oil for Food Programme. They were made by an Independent Inquiry Committee led by former US Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker in a report accusing the programme’s chief Benon Savan of “ethically improper” conduct.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) health and consumer protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has been angered by the continued use by European food processors of the carcinogen Sudan 1, despite controls being introduced in June 2003. Brussels’ emergency decision then insisted on food ingredients and products being tested for the dye.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) health and consumer protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has been angered by the continued use by European food processors of the carcinogen Sudan 1, despite controls being introduced 18 months ago. Brussels’ emergency decision of June 2003 insisted on the testing of food ingredients for the dye to prevent its use in processing and also told member states to test products already on the market.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
A CLOSER monitoring of live animal exports within the European Union (EU) is promised by the EU agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, as the former Danish agriculture minister settles down in her new responsibilities.

She will be working hand-in-glove with colleagues who have a direct responsibility for the issue, the Commissioner told the Meat Trades Journal at her Brussels office.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is pushing for European Union (EU) member governments to use more electronic identifiers for cattle and calves. In a detailed paper, it has suggested an optional system where one of the two eartags currently used is replaced by an electronic bolus or other transponder as an integral part of identification.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
IN THE quest to develop a better cockroach trap, American researchers have identified the female cockroach pheromone, producing a powerful synthetic version causing some male roaches to look for sex in less than nine seconds. According to a study by Cornell, New York State and North Carolina universities, published in the journal Science, the fake roach sex scent made male cockroaches – starved almost to death by scientists – forgo peanut butter for a chance to copulate.…