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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) wants clinical studies staged into whether edible neutralised (alkali refined) bleached and deodorised peanut oils can cause harmful allergic reactions in peanut allergic individuals. Current scientific data was too scant to reach firm conclusions, it said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFINED sugar is to become one of only four food and drink products (also including wine, spirits and instant coffee), to retain mandatory national pre-packaging sizes. The European Commission has proposed abolishing such measures (and European voluntary guidelines) for other foodstuffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL cereal production will be a record 2.04 billion tonnes in 2004, increasing cereal stocks for the first time in five years, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed. Cereal stocks will rise to 441 million tonnes by the close of the 2004/05 growing season, with maize dominating increases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has advised aid agencies to prioritise energy projects, because they can save rural people time to concentrate on generating wealth. “Rural women spend hours gathering fuel-wood, (and) inefficiently processing food”, said a UNDP official.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will lend up to Euro 35 million to Croatian supermarket chain Getro, helping it add nine more stores to its current 15. Although this expansion will be in Croatia, the company will also use the money to explore moving into neighbouring Serbia & Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CONSUMPTION of insects such as caterpillars and grubs should be promoted as important protein sources, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) after a survey revealed 85% of Central African Republic citizens consume caterpillars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an EU Internet ‘name and shame’ list of EU food retailers, traders and producers habitually breaking European rules limiting pesticide residues on their products has been proposed by the European Parliament’s environment committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority wants clinical studies into whether edible neutralised (alkali refined) bleached and deodorised peanut oils can cause dangerous allergic reactions in peanut allergic individuals, as existing scientific data is “insufficient.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund has cautioned developing countries seeking special rights to maintain protective duties and subsidies at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha development round, that such policies could restrict food production in the long term.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has established an acceptable daily intake level of 30 mg/kg body weight for sucrose esters of fatty acids (E 473) and sucroglycerides (E 474), which are used as emulsifiers and stabilisers for oil or water emulsions in several processed foods.…