Search Results for: food

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released guidelines for chemical companies producing food product packaging to secure authorisation for new materials touching foodstuffs. This follows the approval in October of European Union (EU) regulation 1935/2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, legalising the use of so-called ‘intelligent materials’ that can alert consumers to the state of a foodstuff, notably its freshness.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE its best harvest in 10 years, North Korea will suffer further food shortages in 2005 and require assistance to support over a quarter of its 23.7 million people, claim the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TOLERABLE daily intake level for the food colouring coumarin of 0-0.1 mg has been established by the European Food Safety Authority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LAST people most farmers would like controlling European agricultural policy are glib public relations experts, armed with palm-top digital personal organisers and a sheaf of focus group studies. Such complaints have often been levelled at the Blair government, accused of bending with the wind of public opinion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has released guidelines for chemical companies producing food product packaging to secure authorisation for new intelligent materials touching foodstuffs. *http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/afc/afc_guidance/722/afc_guidance_foodcontact_note_en1.pdf…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OF course, farmers like to say they hate computers. After all agriculture is as far removed from the world of pointy-headed IT technicians as you can get. But actually the truth must be told: computers are useful, especially in helping out with paperwork.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) wants more sophisticated vaccine usage in preventing poultry salmonella. New guidelines say its usefulness and safety depends on whether disease reduction or eradication is sought, the poultry species, production stages, cost-benefit and other issues, such as ensuring vaccinations do not contaminate food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan facing unprecedented pressure for his resignation over the involvement of his son in the brewing Iraq oil for food scandal, the spotlight has again fallen on the finances of his global body.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI
THE BUDDHIST Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has imposed a nationwide ban on the sale of tobacco products starting December 17, 2004, making it the first country in the world to do so. Ban violators will be fined US$227 equivalent and shops and hotels engaged in tobacco sales will lose their business licenses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) member governments and the European Commission have been asked to name the legal and financial obstacles that prevent them effectively fighting livestock diseases. The EU Council of Ministers called on national administrations to develop standing systems guaranteeing continual risk assessment, management and communication of zoonoses, involving the cooperation of relevant laboratories.…