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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the flawed health record of the British meat industry, Britain’s food consumers are the most trusting in Europe, a new survey has suggested. Comparing the UK with Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Portugal, British consumers were most likely to consider 12 foodstuffs “very safe”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is releasing Euro 18 million over the next five years to improve the quality and safety of organic food in the European Union (EU), by boosting standards in farming, manufacture, transportation and retail. Funded by the EU’s sixth framework programme on research, the ‘QualityLowInputFood’ project will develop new technologies for pork and poultry production.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE JURY is still out over whether the fish feed additive Ecotone is environmentally damaging because of its associated release through excretion of astaxanthin, despite a study by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA). Its scientific panel on additives and products or substances used in animal feed concluded it could not assess the impact of the additive, whose main ingredient is Phaffia rhodozyma yeast, a natural source of astaxanthin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has cleared the way for the EU to legalise Monsanto’s pest resistant GM maize variety MON 863, saying it is as safe as conventional maize.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE DANISH government has alerted the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to the discovery of dioxin contamination in Baltic salmon that exceeds EU safety standards, sparking alerts in former communist countries which have just become member states. The problem has led Denmark to impose its own fishing and marketing ban on Baltic salmon.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT on a proposed EU regulation on food health and nutrition claims will be delayed until the autumn, following the failure of the European Parliament’s environment committee to agree amendments. Discussions will be halted by the European Parliament’s June elections; formal business resumes in September.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (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, following comprehensive risk assessments. This would replace a current harmonised national authorisation system, although national regulators would still stage preliminary assessments of residue limits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SIGNIFICANT delays are expected to the introduction of a package of EU food hygiene laws, with the European Parliament insisting on public officials inspecting the slaughter of pigs and veal calves, a job the European Commission would allow abattoirs to undertake themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SIGNIFICANT delays are now expected to the introduction of a package of European Union (EU) food hygiene laws, with the European Parliament sticking to its guns over the need to allow public officials to inspect the slaughter of pigs and veal calves, a job the European Commission would allow abattoirs to undertake themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European Commission from January publishing consumer safety alerts from European Union (EU) Member States, a piece of cycling equipment has already been identified as dangerous: a Decathlon rear-mounted cycle carrier, now banned from being sold in France.…