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HONG KONG BOOK SALES
BY EDWARD PETERS
The year of 2003 started with a whimper in Hong Kong but ended with a bang as far as book sales were concerned. Battered by Gulf War II and nearly shut down by SARS, the city bounced back at year’s end with customers lapping up everything from self-help to science fiction.…
GENETIC DIVERSITY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a Euro 10 million programme promoting the number of natural species used in food production. It would fund cooperation between the EU and member countries over the “conservation, characterisation, collection and use of genetic resources in agriculture.”…
FAO TOBACCO REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD tobacco and cigarette production is set to increase significantly this decade according to United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) projections, which estimates the number of smokers will grow from 1.1 billion in 1998 to around 1.3 billion in 2010.…
EFSA MOVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority will move to its new permanent home in Parma, Italy, by 2005, following the decision on its headquarters’ location made by European Union heads of government in December. The agency has promised no interruption to its risk assessment and communications duties.…
EFSA MOVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority says it will move to a new permanent home in Parma, Italy, by 2005 at the latest, after the decision on its location was made by EU heads of government in December.…
USA BSE OUTBREAK
BY PHILIP FINE, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE and KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has intensified calls for beef importing countries to refrain from over-reacting to BSE outbreaks. Looking at the recent USA infection, the OIE said it opposes resulting blanket beef bans, saying only specified risk materials and animals should be blocked.…
SERBIA ICE CREAM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Frikom AD – Serbia and Montenegro’s largest ice cream and frozen food manufacturer – Euro13.1 million to help improve its production facilities, upgrade irrigation systems and produce more raw materials from its own land.…
FRANCE - ECJ - VITAMINS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIGHT restrictions imposed by French regulators on the market approval of nutrient enriched drinks break European Union free trading rules, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It said that France has neither been sufficiently “proportionate” nor based product bans on “the latest scientific data” to follow EU food health regulations.…
HERBAL MEDICINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL approval has been given to the proposed EU herbal medicines directive by the European Parliament, which amended the text slightly in its second reading. MEPs insisted herbal products already registered as food, (hence falling under food regulations), should maintain this status.…
GM FOOD EVERYWHERE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has warned that no food can now be completely free of genetically modified organisms, claiming a moral absolutist stance in setting acceptable close-to-zero thresholds for levels of GMOs in organic and conventional products is unrealistic.…