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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched three projects, drawing Euro 43 million from its Sixth Framework Programme for research developing food safety expertise. They are ‘Safe Foods’ on risk analysis in food safety; ‘NuGO’ on creating a network of specialists in genomics, nutrition and health; and ‘Welfare Quality’ on animal welfare in food production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MARK ROWE
THE STANDING Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health of the European Union (EU) has extended until August 15 the suspension of EU imports of fresh chicken meat and chicken products from Thailand because of the bird flu outbreak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BEST place to break the law is where the closest policeman is 100’s of miles away. And where might that criminal utopia be? Siberia, the Sahara, the Amazon? No, it’s the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the developed world’s doorstep, where fishing crime is becoming a real problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CASE study written for the UN Food on Agricultural Organisation has provided advice on how disabled people can be mobilised on successful farms. The report focused on Iran, notably considering war victims. *

http://www.fao.org/sd/2003/KN12043_en.htm…

BY ALAN OSBORN
HOW can insurers and governments effectively manage “risk”? The usual way is to base policy on scientific evidence of the probability of an outcome. But this is no longer adequate – it is the perception (last word in italics?)…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved changes to EU food additive legislation (other than colourings and sweeteners), adopting European Parliament amendments passed in July to extend its controls to flavourings. Ministers also authorised two new sweeteners (sucralose and salts of aspartame and acesulfame).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NICARAGUAN coffee growers are being encouraged to move from monoculture, given the fall in the commodity’s price has eroded incomes. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has fed the worst affected families, also supplying black bean seed for local sales and consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES are afoot in Brussels to pass a law requiring all companies handling food to be inspected annually, then publicly ‘named and shamed’ should they be found breaking health and hygiene rules. The idea has been tabled by the European Parliament’s environment committee as an amendment to an umbrella food safety regulation proposed earlier this year covering food quality, animal feed, safety, labelling and inspections, providing for criminal penalties for serious breaches of its rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved changes to EU food additive legislation (other than colourings and sweeteners), adopting European Parliament amendments passed in July to extend its controls to flavourings. Ministers also authorised two new sweeteners (sucralose and salts of aspartame and acesulfame).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which – if confirmed – will see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU meat products annually fall to half their current level by 2010, before being scrapped altogether by 2011.…