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BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming agriculture Commissioner signalled a tough approach to New World wine and spirit producers who exploit traditional European geographic names on wine products after she takes up her post on November 1.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have told the European Commission to negotiate a food trade deal with Iceland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has recommended that the chemical formaldehyde can be safety fed to chickens as a fattener, as long as dosage limits are respected.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-Bulgaria free trade deal, slashing by 2007 tariffs on food products traded between them, has been ratified by the EU Council of Ministers.…

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 Commission has announced Euro 5 million of spending to help France, Denmark, Greece and Italy promote local food products in the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, China, Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Romania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN timber industry is to receive a major slice of a Euro 300 million rural development package being developed by the Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to fund Euro 150 million of this programme, which cites timber production, as one of four priorities (including the food industry, village rehabilitation and general economic development).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PIECES of metal have been found within sweet spicy biscuits in Belgium called speculoos, the European Commission’s food health rapid alert system (RASFF) has warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INQUIRY into irregularities surrounding the United Nations oil for food fund in Iraq will cost the scheme’s administrative account US$30 million and will continue all of next year, the UN security council has been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN food industry has been asked to supply information to an official inquiry aimed at discovering products most prone to contain the carcinogen furan. This was said by the US Food and Drug Administration in May to be present in some foodstuffs exposed to high temperatures, claims that are being investigated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).…