Search Results for: food

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT Ontario government review of its meat processing industry has recommended the Canadian province adopt a powerful new agency to enforce food safety, including using armed guards with the authority to arrest. Judge Roland Haines, the official judicial investigator, said the status quo for inspectors does not go far enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST medium-term EU commodity forecasts from the European Commission (for 2005-2012), says that perspectives for the cereals, meat and dairy markets appear “relatively favourable”. High stock levels will cause cereal prices to be fragile over the next two years, however.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL change can be like growing seasons, it moves gradually, but in a month or two, the landscape has completely changed. So when the recently appointed European Commission takes office in November, the new commissioners of concern for the farming industry will face challenges unanticipated this summer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have launched a US$1.5 million project to restore civil-conflict damaged food production in the West Bank and Gaza, for instance by restoring greenhouses and irrigation systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is consulting on its official guidance on the risk assessment of genetically modified microorganisms and derived food products. A draft has been issued, with comments required by September 15.

*http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/gmo/gmo_consultations/1035_en.html…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU food contamination rapid alert system RASFF has revealed cases where carcinogenic dyes Sudan 1 and Sudan 4 have been discovered in food. Affected minced meat, spice-salt, chilli sauce and pepper, palm oil, pepper sauce, cayenne and red peppers have been removed from sale in Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of research institutions investigating the safety and health effects of phytoestrogens has been created by the European Commission; called Phytohealth, it will especially check whether phytoestrogens prevent cancer. The compounds are found in plant foods, such as beans, cabbage, flax seed, rye, berries, grains and soya products, (including soya milk, tofu and miso).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH a new European Union (EU) regulation on animal nutrition additives coming into force in October, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has provided detailed guidance on helping feed companies apply for market approvals. These guidelines would be updated regularly, said EFSA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HUNGARIAN government has come under pressure from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to lift a national ban on cultivating an EU-approved GM maize (MON 810). EFSA has concluded there is “no new scientific evidence (risking) human health and the environment” to justify the ban.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GEOFFREY Podger, the European Food Safety Authority’s first executive director, will quit his post for a new job as chief executive of Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in November. The move has sparked a row with the European Commission, which wants the right to nominate candidates to the post – this is being resisted by EFSA.…