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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which would see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU confectionary products and ingredients fall by half by 2010, being scrapped by 2011. Affected products include chocolate, cocoa powder and sugar.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA realises it has a collective weight problem. And given that 64 per cent of the US population is overweight or obese and the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children, the confectionary industry is most certainly in the firing line.…

BY PHILIP FINE

TRADE Ministers at recent Free Trade Area of the Americas meetings have failed to strike an agreement that slashes north and south American food tariffs and subsidies. No deadlines were set to solve this rancorous issue, with the United States and Brazil opting for a solution to be struck at the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of reduced calorie fats – salatrims – has been approved by the European Commission as novel food ingredients in the European Union (EU). They are triacylglycerides used in bakery products and confectionery, particularly chocolate, for products aimed specifically at dieters.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SALES on leading brand chocolate bars have decreased in Britain because consumers are snubbing what they regard as “unhealthy” foods. Nestlé Kit Kat saw a drop of 9.1 per cent, whilst Twix sales decreased 4.3 per cent, say figures from the Grocer.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE CITY of Boston and the USA state of New Hampshire have officially announced they will import Canadian prescription drugs without US Food and Drug Administration approval, despite Washington recently outlawing the practice. Boston will use the Canadian medicine for its employees while New Hampshire’s will be destined for prison inmates and Medicaid recipients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN sugar industry has promised to abide by high ethical standards in future, including its dealings with developing countries. CEFS (Comité Européen des Fatricants de Sucre) and EFFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions) have signed a joint code of conduct on corporate social responsibility.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) regulation has been proposed by the European Commission, setting out common rules for the manufacture and labelling of enriched foodstuffs including additional vitamins, minerals and substances such as herbal extracts. The legislation would harmonise EU national rules, allowing the free circulation of fortified foods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada are resisting European Union (EU) calls to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) assessment of whether new laws restricting the sale of beef containing hormones has brought the EU into compliance with a WTO ruling on the issue.…

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.…