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BY ALAN OSBORN
A RELAXATION of European Union rules governing British slaughterhouses and processing plants has been agreed by the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health and will enter into force after formal adoption by the European Commission.…

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Y KEITH NUTHALL
US scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that the mere sight or smell of food spikes levels of a brain “pleasure” chemical called dopamine.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
FAST-FOOD giant Kentucky Fried Chicken will next month (August) open the country’s first drive-through KFC, in Beijing, targeting the capital’s booming daily traffic, now 1.8 million vehicles. “China-KFC can’t miss the chance in advance while the number of private car owners continues to grow in major Chinese cities,” said a spokesperson for KFC’s local partner, Yum Restaurants.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
RESEARCHERS in Ireland have developed a system that allows farmers to remotely monitor the temperature of cattle using a mobile phone. The Grange Research Centre, part of the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc), have recently completed tests using an electronic bolus (a kind of pill) placed in the cow’s rumen, (one of its stomachs).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is considering lending Pounds 25 million to British food processor Princes Ltd to improve its production, while maintaining or improving its health, safety and environmental standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SINGAPORE is seeking to develop its processed and ready-to-eat food sectors’ export performance in an attempt to offset problems in its high tech electronic and technology sectors.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Senate has introduced legislation to reduce obesity, particularly among American children and adolescents. If passed, the US$215 million Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act would take on the ‘significant problems associated with obesity,’ mostly by funding measures to encourage better nutrition and more physical activity; this includes federal funding for research and information campaigns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on meat, dairy products and molluscs as part of a new package of hygiene measures that are designed to step up food safety. These would insist upon a scientific approach to meat inspection, which Brussels said would protect consumers from hazards linked to the consumption of meat.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on meat as part of a new package of hygiene measures designed to step up food safety in the EU. These would implement a science-based approach to meat inspection, which Brussels said would protect the consumer from all main hazards linked to the consumption of meat.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has claimed a boost in the number of Improvement Notices is helping it win its battle against the country’s unhygienic takeaways, cafes and restaurants.

The FSAI said that just fourteen Republic food outlets were closed down in the first six months of the year, ten less than in the same period last year and its food safety officials say the reason is an increase in the number of these Notices it has issued to proprietors.…