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CODEX - DAIRY



BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL food standards body Codex Alimentarius has tabled risk assessment standards for all foods. It has also drawn up new dairy standards for consultation, including guidelines for evaporated skimmed milk-vegetable fat blends, fermented milks and minimum protein content in cheese.…

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COST PROJECTS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD researchers have been asked to participate in two new international studies coordinated by the Committee of Senior Officials for Scientific and Technical Research (COST), an EU-managed body promoting cooperation amongst European scientists. Its latest studies covers pig genomics and reducing toxins and organic contaminants in grain and vegetables.…

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ZOONOSES RESEARCH



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is spending Euro 15 million on uniting European Union (EU) experts on food safety, animal and human health. The new EU Network of Excellence MED-VET-NET will – claims the Commission – for the first time, “unite medical and veterinary expertise in the fight against zoonoses”.…

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ORGANICS STANDARDS



BY MONICA DOBIE
CHANGES to the American federal organic food standards have been rescinded after members of the organic food industry objected to the US Department of Agriculture’s plans to artificial aids on officially ‘organic’ farms. They would have allowed livestock feed containing non-organic fish meal, which can contain synthetic preservatives and contaminants such as mercury and PCB’s.…

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KILLER ALMONDS



BY MONICA DOBIE
AN OUTBREAK of salmonella in almonds harming 25 US citizens has resulted in 13 million pounds of almonds being recalled from one of the world’s largest almond producers, Paramount Farms, in central California. The USA Food and Drug Administration received reports of food poisoning from six states with people reporting fever, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.…

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GM DRINKS FEATURE



BY MARK ROWE
GIVEN the level of public concern over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in what we drink and eat, most companies have chosen to tread warily around the issue and sought not to draw attention to it. In the Swedish town of Ystad, however, a small family brewery has adopted the opposite approach.…

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GM GUIDELINES - EFSA



BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENERAL guidance for GMO risk assessors and commercial product market approval applicants, issued for consultation by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), should help create formal rules on such studies, a meeting staged in Brussels has heard. Other participants wanted more detailed guidance, such as testing whole food or derivatives, or on field trials.…

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SAFETY RESEARCH



BY KEITH NUTHALL
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 (including in GM products), contaminants in food, diseases affecting livestock animals, food allergies, obesity and nutrition (especially for babies).…

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SILICON - EFSA



BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO much vitamin C can play havoc with digestion, but silicon is safe to eat, says the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Silicon naturally occurs in foods as silicon dioxide and silicates, added as silica, silicates and dimethylpolysiloxane anti-caking and anti-foaming agents and in antacids.…

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EU/US REGULATORY COOPERATION



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 nutritional labelling, according to documents released by Washington. The agreement sanctions cooperation between the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Commission’s directorate general for health and consumer affairs.…

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