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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-supported research scheme has developed practical guidelines on recycling waste from 19 food production processes. AWARENET worked out technical solutions for recycling its oils, sugars, vitamins, colorants and antioxidants. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5059864&CFID=58430&CFTOKEN=21966306…

BY PHILIP FINE

CONFECTIONARY, cereals and fast food make up the majority of American television advertisements targeted to children, according to a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. It found the number of adverts US youngsters watch has doubled from 20,000 to 40,000 since the 1970s, the main way the media contributes to childhood obesity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s proposed regulation reforming European Union (EU) food and feed controls is close to final approval, with the acceptance of the reform package by the European Parliament. Crucially, MEPs agreed amendments that had been informally approved in advance with the EU Council of Ministers, so a swift final rubber-stamping is now anticipated, clearing the way for the regulation to come into force on January 1, 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about biocontamination of food processing and other industries, have sparked the development of an International Organisation for Standardisation (IOS) management blueprint on checks and reforms. *ISO 14698-1:2003 and ISO 14698-2:2003 – contact sales@iso.org…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AS PART of its strategy to fight the obesity epidemic in the United States, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging drinks producers to include more realistic caloric intake listings on the labels of their brands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA and Morocco have struck a free trade deal that will swiftly remove all Moroccan import duties on American pistachios and pecans, and within five years, on walnuts and cherries. The US will phase out tariffs on all Moroccan food exports, mostly within 15 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has proposed tightening tabled regulations allowing the use of intelligent packaging within the European Union, that can alert consumers about freshness via chemical reactions within materials in contact with food. MEPs suggested amendments toughening rules on market approvals for this packaging, improving labelling and boosting the traceability of affected products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN food processors are opposing the new Australia-USA free trade deal because it excludes sugar, preventing them securing it more cheaply from Australian cane growers. Commenting during ratification debates, the US government technical advisory committee for trade in processed foods said sugar’s exclusion “lacks economic justification and raises questions about the equity of the agreement.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEAT hygiene committee of the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius has approved the integration of rules for “processed meat” and “meat preparations” into its draft code of hygienic practice for meat, which has previously focused on fresh meat.…