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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
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a permanent ban on the food additive E425 konjac in jelly confectionery because of the risks of children and old people choking on such sweets. MEP’s amended the proposal, bringing forward the ban to six months after the directive enters into force, probably in a few weeks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN sugar industry has promised to abide by high ethical standards in future, including its dealings with developing countries. CEFS (Comité Européen des Fatricants de Sucre) and EFFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions) have signed a joint code of conduct on corporate social responsibility.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN fishing industry is currently enjoying a significant upswing in profits thanks to a surge in fish and seafood consumption and new accessible global fish sources. Three of the country’s main processors in its often hard-pressed Atlantic provinces have reported strong profits despite a decline in traditional fish catches.…

BY MARK ROWE
DEMAND for fresh tuna from Kingfisher Holdings, one of Thailand’s largest canned tuna exporters is set to increase, with the company predicting its revenues will double to US$400m by 2006, following a US$23m investment programme to build a 4,500-tonne cold-storage plant and a frozen food plant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CITIZENS of eastern and southern European countries seeking to join the European Union (EU) consider improvements to the safety of the food they eat to be the top priority of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. Of those polled by the Eurobarometer organisation, 88 per cent cited food safety as their top priority for the CAP, rather than improving the income of their local farmers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW European Food Safety Authority is to draw up a positive list of food flavourings that have been scientifically validated as presenting no risk to health, nor misleading consumers as to their effect, following agreement of a contract with the European Commission.…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE is to set up what it is hailing as the world’s first specialist retailing school. The Retail Academy of Singapore will aim to improve local standards by offering up to 23,000 shop and store staff courses on consumer behaviour, merchandising, management, fashion, food, supermarket economies of scale and information technology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation has published a series of papers illustrating the gains and benefits of developing genetically modified foodstuffs, including meat. It includes notes on unusual spin-off products, such as silk secretions from sheep udders, plus information on increasing meat yields, genetic markets and potential animal health threats.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, claiming that Australian quarantine proceedings for food import, especially meat, break WTO free trade rules. Brussels is particularly concerned about the “extremely long and complex risk assessment procedures” imposed on exports to Australia.…