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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding a two-year programme to promote and monitor good quality meat production in its 10 new eastern and southern member states. The QUALITYMEAT project aims to promote the production of healthy meat, which now circulates freely around Britain and the rest of the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFTA) has called for further research into whether using iodine in livestock feed could pose health problems to animals and meat consumers. Its FEEDAP Panel on animal feed additives and products is concerned iodine is also consumed through iodine-enriched salt and other food items, tablets, and iodine-enriched beverages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is investigating 13,000 personal DNA records to discover links between genetics, food components and obesity. A key aim is examining the role carbohydrates and high-protein foods could play in making consumers feel full and so less likely to continue eating.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding a two-year programme to promote and monitor good quality meat production in its 10 new eastern and southern member states. The QUALITYMEAT project aims to promote the production of healthy meat, which now circulates freely around Britain and the rest of the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved a continent-wide testing programme for goats, to check whether Europe has a public health problem regarding BSE in goats. The fact that the species can contract the disease was recently confirmed by analysis on a dead goat from France, a revelation sparking serious concerns amongst EU food regulators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will help Afghanistan to resume sugar production. In a German-funded project, the FAO will rehabilitate the country’s only sugar factory in Baghlan, which closed when the USSR invaded in 1979.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THREE Belgian brothers – who launched Lithuania’s second largest supermarket chain after the country quitted the ex-USSR – have secured Euro 40 million equity investment by a major US finance house. The European Commission has approved America’s Citigroup Inc taking a minority share in the Ortiz brother’s UAB Palink group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPREHENSIVE tests will be carried out following the conformation that a goat in France did indeed die of BSE, said the European Commission. This follows concerns aired by the European Food Safety Authority’s BIOHAZ panel. It stressed that “important information gaps do not allow, at this stage, the quantification of BSE-related risks” regarding goat meat consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ORGANIC food production could help small farmers in developing countries escape poverty, said the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). Chinese and Indian farmers switching to organic agriculture achieved higher earnings and a better standard of living last year said a report.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission says “sweets, waffles and chewing gum” were prominent amongst the 1.4 million counterfeit food and drinks items seized by EU customs officers in 2003. This was a 77% increase on numbers in 2002, said Brussels in the latest available figures.…