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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 UNITED States and the European Union have traded barbs over their respective policies regarding genetically modified food. During a US-EU summit in Washington, President George W Bush claimed European reticence over GM was preventing starving African countries from importing a valuable food resource.…

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
POLITICAL agreement has been secured at the EU Council of Ministers over the proposed EU regulation boosting health controls on fresh meat, live bivalve molluscs, and milk and milk products.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FROM next January, US schools will have the option of purchasing irradiated meat for the country’s US Department of Agriculture administered National School Lunch Programme, which feeds 27 million American children each year, despite overwhelmingly negative public consultation results.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DANISH scientists have developed a robot reducing the herbicide needed to kill off weeds during crop production. Offering advantages to food processors concerned about herbicide residues and input costs, the robot drives across a field, scanning the ground for weeds and noting their position.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EASILY understood guidelines have been produced by the European Commission’s Food and Veterinary Office to help meat and livestock importers understand often complex EU food safety rules. They spell out inspections required by EU officials, with a focus on clearly explaining the steps developing country exporters must take.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN a push to promote American agricultural products overseas, the country’s Department of Agriculture is giving US$110 million (GBPounds 67 million) to 65 American trade organisations. One fifth of the money will go to the various regional trade associations, while the US Meat Export Federation, will receive US$10 million and several citrus promoters will be given US$6 million to promote their products.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FAST-FOOD giant, McDonald’s, will prohibit direct suppliers from using 24 growth promoters that are closely related to antibiotics used in human medicine. The use of antibiotics in animal feed has been making many of them less effective to humans, say scientists.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE LAWYER for the former president of US chemical company DuCoa LP is being bullish in his defence of his client, who is facing price-fixing charges over the American choline chloride market.

Department of Justice officials allege in an indictment that Daniel T.…