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BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union funded equipment has been unveiled at a food safety laboratory in Serbia, the first of 31 centres to be modernised via a Euro 14 million funding scheme. The Kraljevo Veterinary Institute’s new kit will test animal and animal product samples for infections, part of a nationwide system ensuring meat safety and detecting animal disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler wants non-member Mediterranean countries to develop high quality organic food production to meet growing European demand. He said the EU should offer its know-how on organic farming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union funded equipment has been unveiled at a food safety laboratory in Serbia, the first of 31 centres to be modernised via a Euro 14 million funding scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Parliamentarians are urging the European Commission to draw up legislation that would establish the legal liability of GM food producers for contamination of products by non-biotech manufacturers and growers. Such legislation, said the parliament’s agriculture committee should tell GM companies to secure insurance to settle such claims.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has appealed for US$25.5 million to fund alternative crop cultivation in the four main opium poppy producing provinces of Badakhshan, Helmand, Kandahar and Nangarhar. The FAO wants farmers to develop horticulture, livestock and food cash cropping instead.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has concluded that a genetically modified herbicide resistant NK603 maize developed by Monsanto is safe to eat and grow. Moves to break the EU’s defacto ban on new GM authorisations are still stalled however.…

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 market approval controls to food flavourings. Ministers shared MEPs’ concerns that the current directive could allow banned additives to be illicitly incorporated in uncontrolled flavourings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 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 market approval controls to food flavourings. Ministers shared MEPs’ concerns that the current directive could allow banned additives to be illicitly incorporated in uncontrolled flavourings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST livestock census in Afghanistan has shown that 10 years would be needed to naturally restore national herds to an economically sustainable level, following losses caused by 22 years of war. The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation said there are currently 3.7 million cattle, 8.8 million sheep, 7.3 million goats and 12.2 million poultry in the country.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has tightened its meat import quotas for 2004 as part of a policy to cut food imports and encourage domestic livestock breeding. The Russian Meat Union said the approach had helped its poultry sector in 2003 and was being now being extended.…