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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FLAVOURED wines – such as Vermouth – and minerals exported from Bulgaria into the European Union (EU) will be free of import duty until 2007, by when the country will probably have joined the EU. The concessions are part of a wide-ranging duty-free drinks and food trade access deal struck with the European Commission, not covering regular wines.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN consumer groups are calling for a Congressional investigation into the death of a cow with symptoms of brain damage at a Texas slaughterhouse, whose body was sent to a rendering plant for animal food and by-products manufacture, without being tested for BSE.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MIGROS Turk AS, Turkey’s largest food retailer in Turkey, has received a US$8.3 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to create a food hypermarket and mall in Macedonia.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE GLOBAL food standards body Codex Alimentarius has asked its member countries for their comments on a number of proposed food risk assessment, dairy and additive standards which could become the basis for international food safety legislation. Since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round in 1994 the Codex has become the reference point for international food law, laying down precise regulations for the composition of more than 200 specific food products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved in principle a proposed regulation empowering the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to set EU-wide maximum levels for pesticide residues on foodstuffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have defied expectations and approved a food hygiene package, accepting European Parliament amendments to a meat regulation allowing public officials to inspect the slaughter of pigs and veal calves, a job the European Commission would have allowed abattoirs to undertake.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have been asked to approve granting Bulgaria duty free access to the EU market for a range of food products from this year onwards. These include animal fats, oils, meat-stuffed pasta, broths and many others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has said British plans to scrap its upper 30-month age limit for exportable cattle would require the retention of tough auxiliary measures to prevent the spread of BSE. These would include removing specified risk material and feed control rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW thermal boiler process for combusting tallow has been declared safe for human health by the European Food Safety Agency’s (EFSA) panel on biological hazards. The committee said the method could safely dispose of materials of animals suspected of being infected by a TSE’s or certain specified risk materials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 10 EASTERN and southern European countries joining the EU on May 1 are “on course” to meeting its food health standards, Brussels’ health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has claimed. This masked problems however: temporary exemptions have given the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia between an additional three months and three years to ensure milk producers, slaughterhouses and food processing plants meet standards that should already have been in place.…