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Broad mandate for new European Food Safety Authority
12-Dec-2001 - The Europeans new edifice to food safety and stronger principles for EU food law moved closer to existence this week when, at a second reading,...
End in sight for French ban of British beef
12-Dec-2001 - Britain's farmers expressed confidence on Tuesday that France's unilateral ban on British beef due to mad cow fears would be ruled as illegal by the...
Hemp as novel food, ANZFA considers
12-Dec-2001 - The Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) on Wednesday invited public comment on a number of proposed changes to the Food Standards Code, including the...
USDA will not close meat processing plants
12-Dec-2001 - The U.S. Agriculture Department has announced it will not close meat processing plants that violate its salmonella safety standard, The Wall Street Journal reported on...
No to single US Food safety agency
10-Dec-2001 - William T. Hawks, the US Department of Agriculture under secretary for marketing and regulatory programs, said recently that the idea of a single food safety...
First BSE case in Finland, Estonia imposes ban
10-Dec-2001 - Estonia said on Friday it imposed a five-year ban on imports of live cattle and beef from neighbouring Finland after tests on a slaughtered Finnish...
Advertising Authority upholds supermarket objections
07-Dec-2001 - The UK Advertising Authority has upheld a complaint by UK supermarket chain Safeway Stores who objected to advertisements placed by its competitor, ASDA supermarkets. The...
Italy and Spain chocolate policy infringes EU law
07-Dec-2001 - Italy and Spain have infringed an EC Treaty by prohibiting chocolate products from being marketed under the name 'chocolate' where, in addition to cocoa butter,...
EU fines price-fixing citric acid cartel
06-Dec-2001 - The European Commission said on Wednesday it had fined five companies a total of 135 million euros ($120.5 million) for participating in a price-fixing and...
Food safety drives ministerial conference
05-Dec-2001 - UK Secretary of State Margaret Beckett will lead a delegation of DEFRA Ministers to an international conference on foot and mouth disease being held in...
OECD studies impact of biotechnology
05-Dec-2001 - Living modified organisms contribute to a safer, more secure global food supply but their effects on the environment require continuing scientific investigation. This was the...
US Congress gives billions of dollars to FDA
05-Dec-2001 - US President Bush this week signed into law the H.R.2333- otherwise known as the "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations...
Japan investigates milk substitute
05-Dec-2001 - Japanese investigators searching on Sunday for the cause of an outbreak of mad cow disease zeroed in on a milk substitute which may have been...
Laboratory fiasco further dents consumer faith in food safety
04-Dec-2001 - Government scientists at the centre of a botched study in which cow brains were used in a test for BSE in sheep were most likely...
Meat hygiene improves in UK
04-Dec-2001 - There has been a general reduction in non-compliances in meat hygiene teams this year in the UK meat industry, a new report reveals this week. ...
Relief for Canadian dairy farmers
04-Dec-2001 - Canada has won a long-running dispute over dairy subsidies at the World Trade Organisation. A WTO appeal body in Geneva overturned a ruling last July...
GM labelling imminent in Australia
04-Dec-2001 - The Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) this week released a new consumer pamphlet explaining the new labelling rules for genetically modified (GM) foods which...
Laws on dairy cartel under discussion
03-Dec-2001 - The head of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday asked the Bush administration how it will prevent price-fixing in the dairy industry, now that a...
GM summit addresses food labelling
03-Dec-2001 - Food manufacturers are being warned that they need to spend money on tracing where ingredients come from before the commercial release of genetically modified foods...
EU sets limits on contaminants in foodstuffs
30-Nov-2001 - The EU this week adopted legally binding limits on the presence of dioxin and other contaminants in food. Any food exceeding these strict limits is...
Belgian leader behind Helsinki pitch for food agency
30-Nov-2001 - Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said on Wednesday he would do everything possible to ensure Helsinki is picked to host the European Union's new food...
Greenpeace condemns Canadian government
28-Nov-2001 - Environmental campaigners Greenpeace condemned the Canadian Federal government this week for ignoring the health and environmental concerns raised by an independent panel of scientific and...
Spain wants food agency in Barcelona
28-Nov-2001 - Spain backs Barcelona's bid to become the seat of the European Union's food safety agency and Italian speculation that Barcelona would withdraw its candidacy in...
Codex meetings explained
28-Nov-2001 - Codex Alimentarius Commission - the body charged with developing a food code - continues to draw world attention to the field of food quality and...
European ban on MBM may relax in future
27-Nov-2001 - A European Union ban on meat-based livestock feed, imposed over fears of mad cow disease, could in future be relaxed for certain types of animals,...
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