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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) food companies should be inspected at least once a year and those failing to meet health safety standards should be publicly named and shamed, according to the European Parliament’s environment committee. It has proposed this rule should be written into a package of reforms tabled by the European Commission covering food and animal feed, safety, labelling and inspections.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REDUCED calorie fat, salatrims have been approved for use as novel food ingredients in the EU by the European Commission. The triacylglycerides are used in bakery products and confectionery, particularly chocolate, eaten by dieters.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A US consumer watchdog is intensifying its campaign to have the meat substitute, Quorn, taken off supermarket shelves, despite Britain’s Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) rejection of claims that it is unsafe. Despite this assessment, influential American lobby group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has continued urging the US Food and Drug Administration to ban the product, citing allergic reactions involving nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.…

BY PHILIP FINE

DEMAND for antibiotic-free animals seems to be growing in the US after a major catering firm announced it will use only untreated chickens in its meals and also start begin working with meat producers to reduce the amount of drugs given cows and pigs.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States government has integrated information on all its consumer product recalls onto one central website, offering a convenient service to retailers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has launched the English and Spanish-language site (www.recalls.gov) in collaboration with five other federal agencies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a permanent ban on the food additive E425 konjac in jelly confectionery because of the risks of children and old people choking on such sweets. MEP’s amended the proposal, bringing forward the ban to six months after the directive enters into force, probably in a few weeks.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a guide for the US pharmaceutical industry, named “Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions.” The document was created to help drug companies comply with a new FDA recommendation that requires firms to submit results of genomic tests when seeking approval for new drugs.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A REPORT from an influential legislative committee in a big USA state has called on its governor to ignore standard American free marketeering and investigate whether "state grocery stores" should be established in poor neighbourhoods lacking retail facilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a regulation authorising the EU sale of food in ‘active’ or ‘intelligent’ packaging that interacts with a product, transmitting information to consumers about quality, highlighting mould for instance. They are currently banned on health grounds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved the accession of the EU as a full member of the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius.…