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BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) says growing food portions are contributing to obesity in the United States. While it says individuals bear the ultimate responsibility for what they eat, the AICR has chided food manufacturers and the restaurant industry for distorting what constitutes an appropriate meal size.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD products sold in stores across the European Union with labelling claiming lines are ‘fat-free,’ ‘light’ or ‘high-fibre’ will be manufactured according to strict scientific rules under a new directive proposed by the European Commission. The legislation would ban vague pledges that a foodstuff boosts immunity, energy, concentration and happiness unless such claims can be proved, sometimes according to set EU-wide criteria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced its first Euro 166 million tranche of funding for food and food safety projects, via the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme on research, which will spend Euro 16.5 million on all subjects until 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards organisation Codex Alimentarius has set new guidelines for food irradiation, accepting higher levels that it previously recommended to eliminate bacteria. It also approved general principles on the analysis and management of risks related to biotechnological foods, including pre-market safety evaluations, product tracing for recalls and post-market monitoring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’s proposed regulation on the assessment of GM foods and authorisation procedures for their sale on European markets has been formally approved by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. Another regulation on the traceability and labelling of GM organisms and food has also been approved.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ISRAEL and the European Commission have struck a food trade deal, where the Israelis have agreed to widen import quotas for meat, bovine animals and animal feed, reducing existing preferential duties to zero. The EU will liberalise its trade regime for Israeli exports of turkey and turkey preparations, assuming the deal is approved by Europe’s Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDONESIAN government has vowed to protect its beleaguered sugar industry and regulate imports in an effort to increase national production levels. A rate subsidy is to be issued through the Food Security Credit Scheme for People’s Sugarcane worth Rupiah900 billion (US$106 million) and fertilizer subsidies worth Rupiah1.3 trillion (US$140 million).…

BY MARK ROWE
THE INDONESIAN government has vowed to protect its beleaguered sugar industry and regulate imports in an effort to increase national production levels. A rate subsidy is to be issued through the Food Security Credit Scheme for People’s Sugarcane worth Rupiah900 billion (US$106 million) and fertilizer subsidies worth Rupiah1.3 trillion (US$140 million).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ISRAEL and the European Commission have struck a food trade deal, where the Israelis have agreed to widen import quotas for dairy products, apples, pears, rice, sugar and prepared fruit, reducing existing preferential duties to zero. The EU will liberalise its trade regime for Israeli exports of fresh fruit (melons and grapes) and processed citrus fruit.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have agreed to a significant strengthening of EU regulations covering the counterfeiting of goods, a key move for many small businesses, given that insurance against losses caused by their receiving fake goods is hard to obtain, even though the cost of resulting seizures or losses in value may be significant.…