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BY KEITH NUTHALL
PREGNANT women and small children could suffer mercury poisoning from swordfish, tuna and other large predatory fish the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Germany and Austria to the European Court of Justice, asking it to order the abolition of a system requiring licensed private organic food production inspection offices to be located on their national territories.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union (EU) guidelines on using animal wastes (uncontaminated with BSE) as organic fertilisers should be drawn up by the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority scientific panel on biological hazards has said. There should also be further research into the disappearance over time of bacteria and viruses contained in this fertiliser, it advised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into the environmental conditions sparking asthma and allergies in Europe are to be carried out by an expert network (GA2LEN) funded by Euro 14.4 million in EU research grants. The initiative involves 650 researchers in 16 countries and will investigate national contrasts in allergy rates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JANUARY sales figures collated from across the European Union (EU) have shown trade picking up compared with 2003, with a 2.2 per cent increase showing a market improvement over weaker pre-Christmas sales, where a 0.4 per cent rise was recorded.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A US manufacturer thinks an answer to controlling food pathogen outbreaks in meat production can be found in a spray using chemicals found in standard mouthwashes. With food processors finding it hard to eradicate listeria, E coli O157:H7, salmonella and campylobacter, they could now at least weaken their impact, claims Arkansas-based Safe Foods Corp.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has created three new scientific advisory committees that will inform it about a series of non-food environmental health issues. The committees have been established to replace some old Brussels scientific committees whose food duties have been transferred to the European Food Safety Authority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLAND is pressing the European Commission for at least three months grace in implementing European Union (EU) food hygiene standards after joining the EU in May. Agriculture minister Wojciech Olejniczak has asked EU health commissioner David Byrne to allow around 300 food processing plants – many handling meat – to continue operating while implementing health reforms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has created a new Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP), which will advise it on the safety of non-food goods. Its 19 members will especially be tasked with examining the allergenic properties of cosmetics. The committee replaces Brussels’ old Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-food Products Intended for Consumers.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
RESPONSIBLE Care as a concept has been a touchstone of the paint industry for many years, but it should in the coming months prove its worth in the UK and continental Europe. As is often the case with environmental legislation impacting on the paint and coatings industry, an important driver is the European Union (EU), which has approved a raft of directives that come into effect either this year or shortly afterwards.…