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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has launched a Global Date Palm Network to promote research and exchange of information on production and resources. The FAO says trade restrictions, pests and lack of know-how are causing low date palm yields.…

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. In the meantime, it has suggested it “might be prudent” to ban the sale of “tissues such as central nervous system (CNS) and lymphoid tissues” from sale to food processors or consumers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW research is “urgently” needed to inform better guidelines on stunning methods minimising distress to livestock at slaughterhouses, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said. In an assessment of stunning, EFSA said detailed investigations should focus on the “mechanisms and effects of the different stunning methods, their technical and organisational performance in practice and improved and continuing education of the staff to ensure good animal welfare”.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

CAMEL milk could provide economic salvation to millions of Sahara nomads, who are roaming the deserts with a potentially valuable and untapped commodity. So says the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which points to mushrooming camel milk bars in Chad’s capital N’Djamena, informal exports from Ethiopia to Djibouti, the development of camel cheese in Mauritania and plans to make chocolate with Arabian peninsular camel milk.…

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SECURING agreement on the proposed EU regulation on nutrition and health claims made about food products is a key priority of the new Dutch presidency of the EU. It also wants a deal on a directive on adding vitamins and minerals to food.…

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EURO 192 million will be spent on food quality and safety research this year under the European Union’s (EU) Sixth Framework Programme for research, says the European Commission. Projects tackle issues including traceability, contaminants in food, diseases affecting livestock animals, food allergies, obesity and nutrition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has defended a pro-biotechnology stance in its recent State of Food and Agriculture report, roundly criticised by environmentalists. It says they would be needed to cope with a projected world population increase from six to nine billion by 2050, requiring a 60 per cent more food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD food standards body Codex Alimentarius has approved an international code of practice on animal feeding, aimed at preventing environmental health problems caused by additive use (especially anti-biotics). The Codex’s Commission also expanded its food health and hygiene regulations, which will tighten rules on production and distribution when implemented in member countries, which include Britain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius, has approved an international code of practice on ‘good animal feeding’, establishing a global feed safety system for livestock. It advises on maintaining animal health and reducing environmental problems associated with particular feeds, (such as antibiotics) “in order to minimise risks to the health of consumers.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROMANIA’S meat processing industry will be given three extra years – to the end of 2009 – to modernise and upgrade 26 slaughtering and meat processing units and two poultry processing plants to meet European Union (EU) standards, if the country joins the EU in January 2007.…