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BY PHILIP FINE

KFC says consumers should no longer feel guilty about eating fried chicken. It has launched a US advertising campaign that claims KFC can actually be part of a healthy lifestyle. The new adverts say other fast-food items such as Burger King’s Whopper are less healthy, saying KFCs chicken breasts contain half the fat and calories.…

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

AMERICA realizes by now that it has a collective weight problem. Newspaper articles have been coming out at an ever increasing rate to remind them that 64 per cent of the population is overweight or obese, that the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children and that the medical toll obesity exacts is estimated at US$100 billion (GBPounds 59 billion) a year.…

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

BY PHILIP FINE

A STUDY has established a possible link between hot dogs and colon cancer. University of Nebraska, USA, food researcher Dr Sidney Mirvish found increased levels of nitrosamines, a suspected carcinogen, in the faeces of mice fed a diet of hot dogs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released the details of the projects financed by the first Euro 166 million released for food studies under the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. They include a study on hazardous compounds in heat-treated carbohydrate-rich foods, such as acrylamide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released the details of the projects financed by the first Euro 166 million released for food studies under the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. They include a study on hazardous compounds in heat-treated carbohydrate-rich foods, such as acrylamide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference is being staged in Brussels this week, which will examine how to create realistic risk perceptions about controversial subjects, where public concern can significantly influence democratic government policies. The European Commission organised event will especially focus on food safety, where fears about biotechnology – especially on genetically modified foodstuffs – have forced European Union (EU) institutions and governments to take a very cautious stance.…