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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called for human flu vaccines to be given to all poultry slaughterhouse workers, following the reemergence of bird flu in three Asian countries: Vietnam, China and Thailand. The FAO said research showed the virus was more widespread than previously thought and was unlikely to be “eradicated soon”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is reclaiming Euro 143.86 million in food production subsidies from 12 member countries, including Britain, because of financial irregularities, largely in the meat sector. While the UK’s repayment of Euro 1.8 million is small and for missing general payment deadlines, France faces the largest demand – for Euro 50.7 million in bovine-product premiums, especially in Corsica.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are being urged to meet a ‘drop-dead’ deadline of July 30 for agreeing a ‘framework’ for the Doha Development Round, including a new outline agreement for its key agricultural talks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU research project designed to examine human health damage caused by endocrine-disrupting trace chemicals in food, is now operational. The CASCADE (chemicals as contaminants in the food chain) network hopes to increase public awareness and promote better decision.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called for detailed studies into whether farmed and wild deer used for venison carry scrapie or an unknown TSE strain, similar to BSE. In the meantime, it has suggested it “might be prudent” to ban the sale of deer “tissues such as central nervous system (CNS) and lymphoid tissues” from sale to food processors or consumers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is reclaiming Euro 143.86 million in food production subsidies from 12 member countries, including Britain, because of financial irregularities, largely in the meat sector. While the UK’s repayment of Euro 1.8 million is small and for missing general payment deadlines, France faces the largest demand – for Euro 50.7 million in bovine-product premiums, especially in Corsica.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOVE over Harry Potter trading cards. Make way for deformed child victim of polio and newborn afflicted with tetanus trading cards. Yes folks, disease cards complete with gory, graphic pictures and interesting facts on the back are making the rounds in school playgrounds across the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project designed to examine the effect on human health of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in food, is now up and running. The CASCADE (chemicals as contaminants in the food chain) network hopes to use its discoveries to increase public awareness of the problem and “promote better decision making among both consumers and policy makers regarding food” said a European Commission note.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A ROAD map on regulatory cooperation agreed by the European Union (EU) and the United States includes a deal to work together on cosmetics industry rules, according to documents released by Washington. The agreement sanctions cooperation between the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the cosmetics unit of the European Commission’s directorate general (DG) for enterprise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is spending Euro 15 million on uniting EU experts on food safety, animal and human health. The new EU Network of Excellence MED-VET-NET will fight zoonoses in a virtual institute combining “European veterinary, medical and food science”.…