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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission could impose a blanket EU ban on the sale of jelly mini-cups, the gelatinous confectionary blamed for causing dangerous choking in young consumers. This follows advice from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) that any mini-cup made with a gel-forming additive “could cause choking and not just in children”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has announced a ban on labels that promote the sale of foods that are low in carbohydrates. When the rules take effect in December 2005, carbohydrate content must be listed on the nutrition table of all food and beverages packaging, but other low carb related claims will be forbidden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK that American cattle are infected with BSE is high, the European Food Safety Authority has concluded, and without changes to US rendering or feeding practice, “the probability of cattle to be infected with BSE persistently increases”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUSPENSION of chicken product imports into the European Union (EU) of chicken products and birds from Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Pakistan, China, South Korea and Vietnam will remain until March 31, 2005. The extension, (from December), of the bird flu ban was confirmed by the EU’s Standing Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISHERY resources in the Asia-Pacific region needs improving, with overfishing hitting stocks of valuable species, said the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). Its Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission is to focus on boosting small-scale fishery management and fish farming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXTENSION of private ownership has been proposed in an African Productive Capacity Initiative, approved by the African Union Summit, in Ethiopia this summer. Privatisation was recommended for the food processing, textile and clothing, minerals, metals, wood, auto, pharmaceutical and building material sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has designed a field trial for a proposed rapid BSE detection test for live animals, that could – if approved – significantly reduce the amount of culling (and associated supply and price problems) following an outbreak.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE US Food and Drug Administration has cleared the first human trials of a drug designed to work by targeting genes. This so-called RNA interference experimental drug, manufactured by Philadelphia-based Acuity Pharmaceuticals, will be injected into eyes of older patients to test whether it can disable the gene sparking the process of age-related macular degeneration, a deterioration of the retina that is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EMBARGO on Portugal exporting beef and cattle to the rest of the European Union (EU) will be lifted, after the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health agreed the country had sufficiently improved its anti-BSE controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT could be the most underestimated commercial crime in the world, the illegal trade in wildlife and their products. Some estimates put its value at US$5 billion-a-year, but governments do not really seem to care. Keith Nuthall reports.…