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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released guidance on killing tapeworms and their eggs within meat. Its BIOHAZ panel says freezing pig, wild boar or cattle carcasses at -10°C or lower for 10 days or longer kills these ‘cysticerci’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released guidance on killing tapeworms and their eggs within meat. Its BIOHAZ panel says freezing pig, wild boar or cattle carcasses at -10°C or lower for 10 days or longer kills these ‘cysticerci’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL symposium is being staged at the University of London next month to debate ongoing efforts to reach a sophisticated and global definition of the amount and type of food required to be healthy. New ‘human energy expenditure’ guidelines have been developed over the past two years by the UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) and Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-DIOXIN LIKE PCB CONTAMINATION WARNING – EFSA

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called on the food industry to further minimise non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) in food, because of health concerns about excess contamination. * http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/contam/contam_opinions/1229/contam_op_ej284_ndl-pcb_en1.pdf

ECJ SMOKED FLAVOURINGS CRISPS – BRITAIN APPEAL

A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a British government attempt to strike down a EU regulation controlling smoke flavourings in foods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a series of zero-duty import quotas for a wide range of food products for which there is demand within the European Union (EU), but where local production is either weak or non-existent. Assuming they are approved by the EU Council of Ministers, three-year (almost entirely) duty free quotas, unlimited in scope, will be opened for 30 food products, ranging from crab and bamboo shoots to noodles and pineapples.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

DROUGHT-HIT and AIDS-ravaged southern Africa is faced with a looming humanitarian crisis with almost 12 million people in need of food aid. But genetically modified (GM) crops remain off the menu for most African governments who remain reluctant to allow their farmers to do business with GM giants Monsanto and Syngenta.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called on the food industry to further minimise non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) in food, because of health concerns about excess contamination. A new comprehensive report on the problem notes that unlike with dioxin-like PCBs, the levels of non-dioxin-like PCBs have been lightly researched.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned that the use of lycopene obtained from Blakeslea trispora as a food colouring may be unsafe. Its scientific panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has noted that it could increase exposure compared with "mean intake from natural dietary sources by a considerable margin".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPREHENSIVE tests are needed following the conformation that a goat in France did indeed die of BSE, the European Food Safety Authority’s BIOHAZ panel has said. Data on the goat had been transferred to the EU Community Reference Laboratory for TSEs, in Weybridge, Surrey, after French authorities had reported their concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HIGHLY undiplomatic exchanges between the European Union (EU) and the United States over the vexed question of cotton subsidies have threatened to obstruct agreement at the already tough parallel talks on general agricultural liberalisation at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Hong Kong summit.…