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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has finally approved the controversial EU hygiene package, scotching concerns that European Parliament amendments passed last month would delay approval into the autumn. Instead, ministers shirked a fight with MEPs, agreeing changes that will allow public officials to inspect the slaughter of pigs and veal calves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WIDE-RANGING trade deal between Russia and the European Union (EU) has involved Moscow promising to maintain fixed tariff rate import quotas for fresh and frozen meat and poultry representing around Euro 600 million in sales annually – (15 per cent of the EU’s food exports to the country).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has allowed the European Commission to lift the EU’s de-facto moratorium on selling new GM foodstuffs. It failed to approve (or reject) Syngenta’s insect-resistant maize Bt11 for consumption, clearing the way for a Commission rubber-stamping.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards body Codex Alimentarius has called for comments on a draft global definition of feed additives in its code of good practice on animal feeding. Comments are required from member governments by June 18. The standards have been drawn up by Codex’s intergovernmental task force on animal feeding.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT on a proposed European Union (EU) regulation on food health and nutrition claims will now be delayed until the autumn, following the failure of the European Parliament’s environment committee to agree amendments to the legislation. Discussions will now be halted for the European Parliament’s next elections in June, after which formal business will not restart until September.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU is prepared to discuss eliminating any food export subsidies, agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler said at the reopening of the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural liberalisation negotiations, stalled since last year’s debacle at Cancun. *Fischler has visited China promoting EU food exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Green Party has kicked off its June 10 European election campaign, which will focus on food safety and preventing repeats of the BSE and salmonella scares that have damaged the European Union (EU) meat industry in recent years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Reconstruction has released a plan to help Macedonia’s food industry seize western export markets by boosting quality, upgrading food industry “infrastructure” and toughening laws on “standardisation, food safety, and animal and plant inspection”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the woeful health record of the British food industry, Britain’s food consumers are the most trusting in Europe, says a new survey, compared with those in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Portugal. *http://www.trustinfood.org/…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the woeful record of the British food industry regarding health, Britain’s food consumers are the most trusting in Europe, a new survey has suggested. Comparing UK attitudes to those in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Portugal, when asked if they felt 12 food products were “very safe” to eat, British consumers were the most optimistic in every case.…