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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations is warning that without speedier action by the US-run Coalition Provisional Authority to assume the responsibilities of the UN Oil for Food Programme, a November 21 scheme closure deadline could be missed. UN Office of the Iraq Programme executive director Benon Sevan also blamed deteriorating security.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A US-Canada team trying to lower the incidences of E-Coli outbreaks and meat recalls through animal inoculation has reporting some positive results. University of Nebraska researchers claim there has been an average of 59 per cent reduction in E.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority is moving into larger temporary premises in Brussels as the agency grows from its current 50 staff to a planned 200-300 in 2005. EU ministers have yet to choose a city for its permanent home.…

BY MARK ROWE
PEPSICO, which is marking 50 years of operations in the Middle East, finds itself at something of a crossroads. An all-American company, in a region where anti-Americanism has rarely been so widespread, it faces several challenges to ensure that it will continue to operate successfully in the Middle East for a further half a century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BIOCHEMICAL threat posed by algal blooms is the marine equivalent of a Victorian pea-souper London fog, only one that was a living organism, sucking oxygen from the air, killing thousands of people. Nitrogen and phosphates leaching into the sea from farms and industrial air pollution are ideal food for single-celled phytoplankton, or algae, which reproduce madly in the abundant sunshine of Europe’s increasingly warm summers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REFORM of the EU olive oil common market system has been proposed, converting 60 per cent of production-linked subsidies into single farm payment for most holdings. The remaining 40 per cent would remain attached to output. Export refunds and grants for the use of oil in certain preserved food would be repealed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

AN ATTEMPT is being made to rally all 50 US state governors to lobby the American government to lift a ban on importing lower priced Canadian drugs. Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is trying to build support for the idea and recently went to Washington to push the idea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLANNED reform of the European Union’s (EU) Euro 12.5 million-per-year hop subsidy regime could push hop producers towards promoting speciality varieties, of interest to brewers seeking an edge in flavour and bitterness, a National Hop Association of England spokesman has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved a system for approving new smoke condensate flavourings. They will be assessed by the European Food Safety Authority, with this advice being used to by the European Commission to rule on each application.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved legislation insisting governments and the European Food Safety Authority monitor zoonotic disease agents to improve knowledge of their sources. The second says governments should set realistic targets for reducing of zoonotic contaminants, initially salmonella, but subsequently other pathogens.…