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BY KEITH NUTHALL
LIGHT scanning equipment used in slaughterhouses to detect chlorophyll on meat has been adapted to help hospital employees and restaurant workers from spreading germs. A device developed by eMerge Interactive Inc. is a blue light scanner the size of an automatic hand dryer that detects faecal matter and pinpoints even minuscule amounts of contamination that could carry dangerous bacteria like E coli.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COMPLETE control of British food wholesaler BCA by US agricultural merchant Cargill has been approved by the European Commission. It had shared BCA’s ownership with SCB Holdings (Sandy) Ltd (Banks).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and 16 Caribbean countries have launched negotiations to strike a trade deal by 2008, that should boost Jamaican bauxite exports into Europe. The mineral is already the eastern Caribbean’s largest non-food export to the EU, (eight per cent of all the region’s foreign sales being aluminium-related products – worth around Euro 223 million in 2003).…

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 until the European Parliament’s next elections in June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Agency (EFSA) says a list of potentially allergenic confectionary ingredients within new European Union (EU) labelling legislation (directive 2003/89) is justified by the risk of cereals containing gluten, eggs, peanuts, lactose, other nuts and sesame seeds causing allergic reactions.…

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 UNITED Nations has unveiled a three-member panel charged with investigating allegations of substantial corruption within its now defunct Oil for Food Programme, under which Iraq’s deposed Baathist regime sold limited supplies of crude, supposedly to fund humanitarian supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has supported the inclusion of a list of potentially allergenic ingredients into labelling rules within new EU legislation (directive 2003/89). It has concluded this is justified by the allergenic risks posed by of gluten, fish, crustaceans, eggs, peanuts, lactose, other nuts, celery, mustard, sesame seeds and sulphites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is examining whether the European Union’s (EU) beef labelling system identifying relevant slaughterhouses and farms, should be reformed to enable beef to be stamped ‘made in the EU’. Under the current EU system, countries of origin are named, causing, claims the Commission in a report, some “re-nationalisation” of the beef trade, especially in retail.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 10 EASTERN and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) last weekend are “on course” to meeting its food health standards, Brussels’ health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has claimed. His confident declaration masks some problems however, leading to temporary exemptions, giving 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 have been in place on May 1.…