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INTELLIGENT PACKAGING RULES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union health Commissioner David Byrne has revealed that the European Commission is planning to update European Union (EU) packaging legislation regarding so-called ‘active’ and ‘intelligent’ packaging. Speaking in Brussels, Mr Byrne said officials were examining how to update the existing 1989 directive “materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs”.…
GM LIABILITY
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.…
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN - USA
BY PHILIP FINE
DESPITE protests from a coalition of the major food associations, the US Department of Agriculture has laid out the specifics for its mandatory country of origin labelling (COOL) programme. The proposed rule identifies what products fall under the law and who is responsible for fulfilling them, with most cuts of meat and variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and dairy products required to carry a "United States country of origin" declaration at the retail level.…
WTO ROUND MOVES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its strategy to kick-start the stalled World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round, offering to drop its insistence that deals on the protection of investment rights, competition and other financial matters be written into a final agreement.…
CANADA POWER BARS
BY PHILIP FINE in Montreal
THE CANADIAN government is investigating the production of energy bars, power drinks and weight-loss preparations, inquiring into possible dangers posed by these products pose and the veracity of claims made by manufacturers about them. Many of the products promise to boost energy or shed weight.…
BALONEY SMUGGLING
BY PHILIP FINE
UNITED States border authorities on the lookout for a new food smuggling racket from Mexico, after customs officials discovered an operation that involved one light truck and 756 pounds of processed sandwich meat. US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 81 rolls of Mexican baloney on Texas’s Paso Del Norte bridge from Juarez, Mexico.…
STEEL DUTIES - USA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) retail goods importers are girding themselves for the imposition of heavy duties on a range of United States food and clothing exports, after the World Trade Organisation authorised EU retaliation to American protection of its steel industry, erected in breach of global trade laws.…
MONSANTO CORN
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Food and Drug Administration has approved a groundbreaking variety of genetically modified corn; YieldGard Plus, the first GM crop with the ability to control two different insect groups. Developed by biotech giant Monsanto, it enables the crop to protect itself from both leaf and stalk damage caused by insects such as the European corn borer (a moth), and from root damage caused by the corn rootworm (a beetle).…
IVORY COAST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POWERFUL disused radioactive source left in a small unguarded bunker at the Ivory Coast’s University of Cocody (in the capital Abidjan) has been has been secured by the International Atomic Energy Agency, specialists from France and the host country.…
ACACIA GUM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PRODUCTION of acacia gum – used by cosmetic industry to make capsules and as an emulsifier – is to be boosted in Burkina Faso, Chad, Kenya, Niger, Senegal and Sudan by a US$3.5 million project coordinated by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and funded by Italy.…