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Keith Nuthall
THE NORWEGIAN government has moved to liberalise its alcohol retail system, following the order from the European Free Trade Area Court that it should scrap its discriminatory beer retail system, where the sale of brands of between 2.5% and 4.75% abv outside the state alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet is generally limited to domestically-produced lines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEED the world. Bob Geldof. Don’t they know it’s Christmas time? Food aid: it is supposed to be simple. Poor countries have hungry people. Rich countries have fat people. The developed world sends food to the developing world.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PROPOSED EU legislation on the labelling of food and food products made from genetically modified organisms, (GMO’s), has been significantly toughened by the environment committee of the European Parliament.

Its members have approved an amendment requiring that the words “this product is derived from an animal fed with GM feed” or “this product contains (an ingredient) derived from an animal fed with GM feed” appear on the label or in any advertising for a product associated with GM technology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMS growing both GM and traditional crops will find it extremely difficult to guarantee that non-GM varieties are not so contaminated with genetically modified material, they cannot be sold as standard food, a European Commission report has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted a ban on Chinese imports of certain fish, (including whole farmed and wild fish, gutted and de-headed fish and fish fillets of Alaska pollack, cod, redfish farmed fish and crustaceans), following tests by the EU Food and Veterinary Office.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has unveiled a report illustrating that rich developed countries continue to subsidise their food producers, helping to lock developing country competitors out of their markets. Its paper Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: Monitoring and Evaluation 2002 will state that last year, member countries’ public aid to food producers accounted for 31 per cent of farm receipts.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAI canneries are looking to invest in re-exporting north American wild salmon as a means of boosting revenue. Companies are planning to promote exports of wild salmon, which have been processed in Thailand in favour of farmed salmon, usually supplied from Norway, Chile and Scotland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation will hold an “expert consultation” after the Swedish National Food Administration claimed accumulations of the toxin acrylamide have been found in fried and baked food, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO and the United States made pledges on several food industry issues during recent two-day talks. The countries have agreed to work together on sanitary policies, animal health, food safety, and research. US-Mexico agricultural trade has doubled since 1993 to US$13 billion in 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is expected to demand that celery and celery products are added to a list of potentially allergenic ingredients that must be named on labels for food products sold in the EU. Other adopted amendments agreed by the parliament’s environment committee to a new proposed directive now under discussion include an extension of the compulsory labeling list to include mustard.…