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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s standing committee for the food chain and animal health has blocked imports of most US queen bees to prevent American small hive beetles and tropilaelaps mites infecting EU honey bees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) standing committee for the food chain and animal health has extended the existing ban on imports of South African ostrich meat until March 31, 2005, lengthening it by two months. The committee said it was waiting for official confirmation of an improvement in the bird flu infection of South African ostriches.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has suggested varying animal welfare rules for live exports according to the climate to which livestock are sent. It has called for research “to develop realistic ventilation models” and meanwhile for existing regulations to allow more flexibility on misting in summer for cooling, and heating incoming air during winter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) chemical control package REACH that has been causing metal companies serious concern is starting to move steadily towards the Brussels statute book, with the European Parliament preparing to start formal debates next month. Its responsible committee on the environment, public health and food safety stages its next meeting on November 23 and 24, following a session of the industry, research and energy committee, which has the right to propose its own amendments.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
IN what could be a model law of its kind, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed regulations to improve egg safety on US farms to significantly reduce instances of salmonella enteritidis (SE). Farms that contain more than 3,000 laying hens producing eggs for retail sale would be required to introduce their own biosecurity and pest control programmes, mandatory salmonella testing and the cleaning and disinfection of chicken coups that have had an egg test positive for salmonella, as well as the refrigerated storage of eggs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority panel has ruled additive pullulan PI-20 can be used safely in Europe to make encapsulated and coated-tablet form foodstuffs, or as flavoured edible films, such as breath-fresheners. It has been used in Japan for 20 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) pesticide residue laws are designed to prevent food consumers poisoning themselves with insect killer, but that important fact has not stopped European law being as much of an ass as its British cousin. For the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is expected to rule that vine leaves are not covered by European Union (EU) pesticide residue legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has suggested varying animal welfare rules for the live export trade according to the climate of a country, to which livestock are sent. Its scientific panel on animal health and welfare has called for detailed practical research on microclimates in lorries “to develop realistic ventilation models for the different animal species in different climatic zones”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENT of the traditional southern African kingdom of Swaziland is taking proactive steps to promote traditional cooking in a country that is developing health problems through its adoption of modern processed foods. The United Nations (UN) Food & Agriculture Organisation has reported rises in hypertension and sugar diabetes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted bans on exports from China into the European Union (EU) of shrimps and farmed fish after Beijing improved its anti-biotic controls in food production. Brussels is insisting that consignments are monitored by Chinese food officials however, and are granted official certificates declaring these products comply with anti-biotic residue rules prior to shipment.…