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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and the European Food Safety Authority has launched a database containing the latest information about the risks posed by acrylamide in food, which has been highlighted as being possibly dangerous in baked and fried foods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European Union’s eastern border set to move a few 100 miles eastwards on May 1 next year, preparations are under way to set up tough frontier controls against the food hygiene badlands of Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus.…

BY PHILIP FINE

SEVERAL major bacterial food-borne illnesses seem to be on the decline in the United States, according to a recent survey of clinical laboratories that test for infection. In their annual release of data, the US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveyed labs that serve 13 per cent of the American population and found that sustained progress is being made in meeting the national health objectives for illnesses caused by listeria and campylobacter, when comparing 2002 data with 1996-2001 numbers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has released a series of papers on genetically modified food, with a memorandum on fish highlighting the significant commercial opportunities to fish farmers, but also the potential dire environmental after effects of escapes by GM fish.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SOME eastern European countries applying for EU membership need to work harder to reform their food sectors, said a European Commission report. Slovakia, Slovenia and Latvia are highlighted as having won foreign investment though.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AQUACULTURE is growing more rapidly than other meat, fish or dairy sectors. Its contribution to global supplies of fish and seafood increased from 3.9 per cent to 29 per cent in 2001, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Trade Organisation in the midst of key negotiations to update its agriculture agreement, Geneva diplomats are often stressing the raison d’etre of the WTO Doha Development Round, namely that commerce helps the poor.

The idea is that by ripping down bureaucratic hurdles, duties and restrictive quotas for goods that developing countries produce in abundance – such as food – the WTO will provide their entrepreneurs with an opportunity to seize export earnings.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN pharma Lupin Ltd is to set up a new plant for manufacturing lovastatin, the cholesterol lowering active pharmaceutical ingredient. The new plant is being built to meet US Food and Drug Administration standards and will have an initial capacity of more than 12 metric tonnes per annum.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has announced its first offer of reductions to food duties in its bid to create a 34-country Free Trade Area of the Americas pact. It plans to slash duties on 56 per cent of agricultural imports from north and south American countries by 2005 (ignoring those from Canada and Mexico) and expects reciprocal offers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL team of experts has successfully controlled a newly discovered species of parasitic wasp that was threatening to destroy the Lebanon’s iconic cedar woodlands, descended from Levantine forests probably walked by Jesus Christ. From Biblical times to the Nineteenth Century, much of the steep Mount Lebanon range that towers over the eastern Mediterranean was cloaked in ancient cedars.…