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BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MARK ROWE
THE SPREAD of the bird flu virus is still not under control, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned, pointing to new outbreaks amongst poultry in Cambodia, China, Indonesia and Laos. The FAO said that more than 80 million chickens have so far been culled, excluding those in China: (Indonesia 15 million; Thailand 30 million; Vietnam 30 million; and Pakistan, 4 million).…

BY PHILIP FINE

GRAZING cattle beef is leaner and more tender than their feed-lot counterparts, with half the saturated fat and higher levels of the more healthy types of fat, according to preliminary American research. The US Agriculture Research Service is conducting a study that will help eventually market to natural food market niches the mostly grass-fed cattle of the Appalachian mountain range in the American South.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LARGE proportion of food sold in Britain as organic or as health foods contain traces of genetically modified (GM) ingredients, according to a University of Glamorgan study. Researchers tested 25 products containing soya and discovered that 10 samples tested positive for GM ingredients, even though eight were labelled “organic” or “GM free”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) sub-committee on fish trade has ordered the promotion of cost-effective and global standards to trace a fish’s progress through the commercial chain, from harvesting to consumption. At a meeting in Bremen, Germany, many national representatives expressed concerns about health and safety issues affecting the international fish trade, including consumer perceptions over problems such as antibiotic residues in farmed fish.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FUTURE European Union (EU) research programmes affecting meat production should be reoriented towards consumer protection, animal welfare standards and environmental good practice rather than food production technology, the European Parliament has said. Its suggestions came in a report on the current and next EU (sixth and seventh) framework programme for research.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
US supermarket mogul Ron Burkle is selling his stake in Irvine-based Golden State Foods for US$110 million, to Wetterau Associates, a St Louis-based investment group. Golden State is one of the largest suppliers of hamburger patties, buns and condiments to fast-food giant McDonald’s Corp.…

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
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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said it will move to its new permanent home in Parma, Italy, by 2005 at the latest, following the long-awaited decision on its headquarters’ location being made by European Union (EU) heads of government in December.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WANT to find a healthy US airport meal? Fly through Denver. That city’s airport has been voted tops for providing healthy meals by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which surveyed 15 US airports. San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Miami took the next four spots.…