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BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A south-south project – backed by World Bank Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) will raise Burundi’s teledensity ratio above one per cent. It is guaranteeing Mauritius Telecom Ltd’s US$1.01 million investment in Burundi’s Africell GSM mobile network.

*An emerging international market in hosting regional and international headquarters of transnational corporations benefits developing countries, says the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); 829 HQs were established or relocated January 2002 to March 2003, nearly a quarter in developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTERFEITING is considered by many to be a victimless crime, the only losses being suffered by large trademark holders who have plenty of money anyway. The reality, of course, is quite different. Keith Nuthall reviews the latest international developments.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE RISK to consumers of tasting raw cookie dough, eating food with homemade mayonnaise or a prepared hollandaise sauce is that the raw eggs in these products can make you sick if they carry traces of salmonella. The US Agricultural Research Service (ARS) says it has just lessened that risk by developing a new vaccine that increases antibodies in the hens’ intestines.…

BY MARK ROWE
DENMARK’S move to become the first country to restrict the use of industrially produced trans fatty acids in processed foods as part of a health drive to reduce heart disease looks like being accepted, by the European Commission and the Danish food industry.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that food labels making health claims will have to go through a new government review. They will be vetted through government agencies, such as the Agency for Healthcare Quality Research, relying on consumer and scientific studies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the European Commission have agreed to create a “closer strategic partnership” regarding development and humanitarian aid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation experts will help central and eastern Europe to control ‘western corn rootworm’, a threat to corn production. This US$2.26 million project involves Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovakia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has appointed as deputy executive director Dr Herman Koëter, who will be the organisation’s head of science. He was previously chief of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) programme on the harmonisation of classification and labelling of chemical substances and preparations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN researchers have developed a method of harnessing electricity from bio-chemical reactions generated by the food poisoning bacteria E coli eating sugar. Scientists from Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald claim that they are able to generate ten times as much electricity using microbial fuel cells using E coli than with previous designs, because of a newly designed anode and the voraciousness of the bacteria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards body, Codex Alimentarius, has adopted new quality guidelines for chocolate. Its new global standards set a minimum 35 per cent by volume of cocoa solids in products marketed as ‘chocolate’ and a minimum 20 per cent in ‘chocolate type’ products, such as chocolate flakes.…