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BY PHILIP FINE

CRIMINAL charges have been laid against 24 former workers at Boston’s Logan International Airport for allegedly falsifying documents that got them their jobs and allowed them access to secure areas. The employees worked for private companies providing security, food and other services.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE SEAS around Australia are among the cleanest in the world, partly thanks to the ingenuity of local scientists, who are pioneering two projects to ensure local waters remain healthy, while assisting other more stressed ocean regions.

One involves an electronic mapping system developed by the Australian Marine Safety Authority (AMSA), which is being used to predict the effects of dangerous chemicals in the ocean.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A STRING of cases have been launched by the European Commission against Member States of the European Union to try and force them to comply with EU water legislation; under existing rules, failure to abide by the court’s rulings can see national governments being hit with huge daily recurring fines of up to Euro 100,000.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has approved a US$5.6 million credit to fund a Pilot Fishery Development Project, to boost the development of fish farming in Albania, one of Europe’s poorest countries. The scheme also aims at improving the country’s wild fishery sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a ban on the sale in the EU of jelly mini-cups containing the food additive konjac (E 425), which take time to dissolve and have lead to the deaths of several American and Canadian children through choking.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD safety and quality need to be improved in all European countries because of the increase in food-borne diseases in the past decade, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have said.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A JAM factory will be opened by the Chunnakam Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society near Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, the first food plant launched in this contested region since government forces regained control from the Tamil Tigers in 1996; the combatants are now negotiating a peace deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JAM factory will be opened by the Chunnakam Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society near Jaffna, Sri Lanka, the first food plant launched in this contested region since government forces regained control from the Tamil Tigers in 1996.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to order tests on all imports of shrimps from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, (Burma), to ensure antibiotic residues do not exceed EU health limits, following concerns raised by spot-checks on cargoes from these countries.

Results showed unsatisfactory contamination of shrimps from Vietnam and Thailand by Nitrofuran, veterinary drugs banned for food producing fish and animals in the EU on health grounds, including a possible increased cancer risks through long-term consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TASK force of the world’s food standards body, Codex Alimentarius, has agreed detailed draft guidelines on how to assess the safety of genetically modified foodstuffs and on how to trace and remove from sale any product that is subsequently shown to pose a hazard to human health.…