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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved in principle new proposed European regulations on the traceability and labelling of genetically modified food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the New Year is upon us, pessimists tend to herald the approach of apocalypse, gloomy tidings and battening down the hatches. And in a year that may see war in the Middle East, the naysayers may say more in 2003 than usual.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists are claiming they have proof that wine is an anti-biotic, strong enough to kill virulent bugs such as E.coli and salmonella. Researcher Mark Daeschel from Oregon State University has added that white wine may be more beneficial to health than red wine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GEOFFREY Podger will start work as Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority on February 1. He has been chief executive of the UK Food Standards Agency. The EU agency will now appoint its advisory forum, its scientific committee and panels, and recruit most of its staff.…

BY PHILIP FINE

NEW Choice Food, an American maker of the jelly mini cups associated with choking deaths of children, was recently ordered to destroy a half-million dollars US (£312,000) worth of conjac gel sweets under the supervision of the US Food and Drug

Administration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA and African countries have called for food health import controls allowed by WTO rules to be weakened regarding developing country exporters, claiming they are so tough and bureaucratic, they prevent them exporting healthy food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROBLEM for farmers when considering how to influence international negotiations that are as long, complicated and important as the scheduled five years of discussions over updating the World Trade Organisation’s agriculture agreement, is knowing when to spend money on lobbyists to intervene.…

Keith Nuthall
A CONSULTANT for the California wine industry thinks the US will be prepared to cut a deal at next September’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico over European demands for a mandatory wine and spirits register of geographical indications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A supermarket boom in sub-Saharan Africa is raising food production and distribution standards, which many small farmers cannot meet, said the UN’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It called for the funding of cooperatives, micro-loans and training, especially in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have gained significant new access rights to information held by public authorities and others under legislation agreed by the Council of Ministers of the European Union (EU) and the European Parliament. In what was welcomed by environmental campaigners as a victory over some EU member governments, the agreement goes well beyond the United Nations’ 1998 Aarhus Convention on information, decision-making and redress in environmental matters by widening the range of what can be accessed and simplifying the procedures.…