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Tax breaks to kickstart organics
13-Feb-2002 - Organic products should be given tax breaks throughout the European Union to help them compete with conventionally grown goods, a green lobby group proposed on...
UK tackles food hygiene
13-Feb-2002 - The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) this week launched a national campaign to lift hygiene standards in catering businesses across the UK. The campaign, including...
Food Ingredients Nestlé recalls chicken base
12-Feb-2002 - The Food Ingredient Specialties business of Nestle USA, a subsidiary of European food company Nestle, voluntarily recalled 144,000 pounds of chicken base refrigerated products because...
Food labelling committee for Brazil
11-Feb-2002 - Brazil's government has created a committeeto revise the rules on labelling products that contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, in an effort to clear the...
No evidence to support Chinese bio-food ban
11-Feb-2002 - The United States was cited as saying on Thursday that China failed to provide scientific evidence to support Beijing's new rules onbio-engineered foods that could...
Belgian food safety chief steps down
11-Feb-2002 - The head of Belgium's food safety agency stepped down last week following the discovery of new cases of pig feed which had not been tested...
10th BSE case since ban imposed
08-Feb-2002 - The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) informed the public this week that it has been notified by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD)...
Japan considers food safety agency
08-Feb-2002 - Lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan are considering setting up a new food safety agency in the government by combining the...
Japan scours country for false food labelling
08-Feb-2002 - Japan's Agriculture Ministry on Friday began checking all frozen beef stored under a government buy-back programme for false labels, following revelations Snow Brand Food Co...
EU bans poisonous strains of Star Anise
08-Feb-2002 - Chinese Star Anise (Illicium verum), also know as Chinese badian, is fit for human consumption and commonly used in foods, reports Reading Scientific Services. However,...
Britain reopens cattle markets
07-Feb-2002 - Cattle markets in the UK closed by last year's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease will reopen next week under strict cleanliness standards, the government said on...
Food from GM canola and GM corn safe, ANZFA claims
07-Feb-2002 - The Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) this week released reports for public comment recommending the use of a GM canola and a GM corn...
Safety of farmers' markets scrutinised
07-Feb-2002 - A review of farmers' markets in Scotland has found standards of operation to be generally high with only a few small improvements needed, writes the...
New powers to protect humans from contaminated meat
07-Feb-2002 - A day after Italy's first human case of suspected mad cow disease, the European Parliament has demanded new EU powers to help prevent the consumption...
Ireland reports new BSE cases
06-Feb-2002 - Five new cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) were announced this week by the Department of Agriculture in Ireland bringing the number of cases to...
Global governance for health foods, Byrne explains
06-Feb-2002 - The European Commission wants to see greater progress in frontier technologies, particularly life sciences and biotechnology, and has set out a clear strategy to achieve...
Food businesses need to improve food handling practices
06-Feb-2002 - The Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) this week released a research report on food handling practices in Australian food businesses. The findings were mixed....
Bird flu hits Hong Kong, again
05-Feb-2002 - Hong Kong killed 67,000 chickens on Monday and shut a second poultry farm in a bid to contain the spread of a bird-flu virus in...
Report calls for GM food testing
05-Feb-2002 - Safety checks for GM foods should be improved, asserted the UK's leading body ofscientists, the Royal Society, this week. The body has just released a...
Europe launches the EFSA machine
04-Feb-2002 - The seal of approval making the European Food Authority (EFSA) a reality was given on 21 January 2002, when the Council of Ministers adopted the...
Changes to food labelling to harm food safety
04-Feb-2002 - The American Soybean Association (ASA), fears that mandatory GMO labelling of foods would have adverse impacts on global food safety, according to a report in...
Treaty proposed to end property rights on genetics
04-Feb-2002 - Biotech activists from more than 50 nations have announced their support for a treaty which would establish the earth's gene pool as a global commons,...
Codex meets in Rotterdam
04-Feb-2002 - The Thirty-fourth Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants and its Ad Hoc Working Groups will be held in March 2002 in...
One billion baht for food safety in Thailand
04-Feb-2002 - The Thai Small Industry Finance Corporation has allotted one billion baht (€200m) to promote food safety standards among Thai food manufacturers, the Bangkok Post reports...
President Bush invests in food security
04-Feb-2002 - In his budget proposal for fiscal year 2003, President Bush will include $131 million (€152m) in new spending to protect the nation's food supply from...
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