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New regulation on food quality labels
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Following the endorsement of a regulation by the EP, the time it takes to obtain an EU quality label for farm produce from a given geographical area, or produced in a traditional way, could be reduce by half. Speaking of how this will help both farme...
Germany investigates criminal origin of dioxin contamination
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The dangers of the recent dioxin-contaminated eggs, which originated from Germany, were again downplayed by the European Commission . But Germany announced it was now investigating whether the contamination, which is now of European proportions, i...
Strengtehning Food safety systems in ACP
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EDES is a EU-ACP programme funded to the tune of 29,5m € under the 9th EDF within a global framework of support to poverty reduction through economic empowerment. Its implementation over a 2010-2014 period has been entrusted to a consortium of Euro...
Seen this somewhere before?
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Interesting to see that the Daily Mail yesterday ran a story that you read about on Ooh, Brussels! MORE THAN TWO WEEKS AGO. In its typical Europhobic tone, the Mail’s article talked about the £12m “squandered” on the study, as repo...
Science+Europe=accuracy fail
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I went to a very interesting event about science journalism in the UK last year at the Royal Institution which I blogged about about the time. One of my conclusions was that many of the issues faced by science journalism reflect very closely issues f...
How safe is our food?
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How safe is the food that we eat? Is the EU responsible when contaminations slip through the net? Italy is still reeling from the sight of ‘blue mozzarella’ after consignments of the contaminated cheese made their way from a German fac...
MEPs restate opposition to food derived from cloned animals
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The European Parliament's environment committee has voted not to authorise the entry of any food derived from cloned animals onto EU markets, putting MEPs on a collision course with the European Commission and the EU's Council of Ministers.
EU pesticides package: reactions
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The recent European parliament ban on 22 substances linked to cancer is a step too far for agricultu...
