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6FP RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BUDGET of Euro 197 million has been released by the European Commission for studies into food quality and safety, under the umbrella of the European Union sixth framework programme for research. It has published formal calls for proposals from research units, most of which must be answered by next February.…
6FP RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BUDGET of Euro 197 million has been released by the European Commission for studies into food quality and safety, under the umbrella of the European Union sixth framework programme for research. It has published formal calls for proposals from research units, most of which must be answered by next February.…
FOOD ADDITIVES
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.…
ZINC RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into the nutritional impact of zinc in food supplements and its use in anti-ageing drugs are being funded by a new Euro 166 million tranche of the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. The European Commission said no focused research has been conducted in this area before.…
ITC CHOCOLATE
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIA Tobacco Corporation (ITC) is continuing to diversify into food, announcing a new move to seize 20 per cent of caramilk sales in Tamil Nadu. The company’s food division has launched ‘Candyman Eclairs’, with spokesman Sunil S.…
INTELLIGENT PACKAGING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a regulation that would authorise the sale in the European Union (EU) of drinks in so-called ‘active’ or ‘intelligent’ packaging that interacts with a product, transmitting information to consumers about its quality. These inventions can be incorporated into glass bottles or even coffee machines, but they are currently banned in the EU, where legislation blocks the sale of packaging touching food and drink that generates a chemical reaction with the product.…
SERBIA LABS
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.…
EFSA FEED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned live animal tests need to be carried out on a new poultry feed BioPlus 2B, based on a mixture of two micro-organisms, bacillus licheniformis and bacillus subtilis. In vitro studies of the feed, already approved for fattening chickens and turkeys, raised some doubts about its effectiveness.…
RESEARCH CALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made a formal call for research proposals on food safety that will be funded by a Euro 197 million tranche of money from the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme. Topics would include the impact of animal feed on human health and ‘traceability’ processes along the production chain.…
THAI CHICKEN CHECKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RULES will be lifted that require 20 per cent of Thai poultry meat exported into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of banned anti-microbial substances such as nitrofurans. The EU standing committee on the food chain and animal health has ordered an end to (initially 100 per cent) checks imposed in March 2002.…