Publication title: European Food Law Handbook,
Author: Bernd van der Meulen and Menno van der Velde
Publication type: Book (Hardback)
Publication date: 15 December 2008
Number of pages: 640
ISBN number: 978-90-8686-082-1
Price: 54.00 EUR Euros

 
European food law has fundamentally been reformed in the last decade. We now come to the point where the modern European Union food law has taken shape. The new European food law handbook, written in the perspective of food law embedded within the general EU law, highlights the consequences of  this combination and provides insights in both substantive and procedural food …

The Food Standards Agency, British Poultry Council, National Farmers’ Union and Veterinary Medicines Directorate have produced a leaflet to help farm owners, their managers and workers reduce nicarbazin residues in chicken through better feed storage and distribution management systems. Nicarbazin is a medicated feed additive used to treat a debilitating poultry disease called coccidiosis.
The leaflet, which can be found at the link below, will be emailed to farmers and can be printed out as a poster. It was produced following the publication of the joint Government and industry report ’Reducing …

　　BEIJING — China should strengthen risk management to ensure food safety, according to a blue paper issued here Monday by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
　　The country’s risk management system focuses on evaluating biological, chemical and physical dangers that may exist in food and food additives.
　　In last year’s milk scandal, melamine-tainted baby milk powder produced by Sanlu was found to have caused the deaths of at least six children and sickened some 300,000 children.
　　According to the paper, the results of risk assessing should be an important scientific basis for monitoring …

Alltech is taking a giant step into the $1 billion global market for Asian food.
The Nicholasville biotechnology company, best known for animal nutrition products and for sponsoring the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, is partnering with two large Japanese companies — Mitsui and Asahi — to produce “a natural alternative” to monosodium glutamate, or MSG, and other artificial taste enhancers found in many Asian foods, Alltech founder Pearce Lyons said Tuesday.
The new additive, a yeast extract that has not been given a brand name, also could be used in non-Asian …

The newly co-located All Things Organic™ Conference & Trade Show, OTA Annual Meeting and Member Days, Expo Comida Latina and All Asia Food events offer the convenience of one-stop shopping for the hottest growth segments in today’s food market. The combined shows will present new and innovative products, education and tools to capitalize on today’s top consumer trends in the high-growth organic, multicultural, health and wellness, and specialty food industry categories. The events will be held June 16-18 at Lakeside Center, McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.

The 2009 All Things Organic™ …

As more than a thousand research chefs and culinologists from all over the world descend on Dallas March 4-8 for the annual Research Chef Assn. (RCA) conference, few observers will be able to deny the phenomenal growth and expanding relevance of the discipline of culinology.
RCA president Stephen Kalil, CEC, CRC, executive chef of the Plano, Texas-based Frito Lay Culinary Innovation Center, sees the root of culinology’s importance in that it “inspires collaboration between professionals in culinary arts with professional in food science and technology. And it does so unconditionally, with …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs to improve its oversight of vitamins and other dietary supplements as reports of consumers experiencing side effects continue to rise, a government report concluded.
 
The FDA must be given additional power to require more information from supplement manufacturers each year, including an updated list of all products sold, the Government Accountability Office said in its findings released on Monday.
 
Agency officials also should better educate consumers as well as offer the industry advice about using new ingredients and marketing their products, the …

Nationally unified dairy product safety standards will be announced in the later half of 2009, after melamine-tainted milk killed six infants and sickened about 30,000 others last year, a senior official said Monday.
“According to the recently passed Food Safety Law, the Ministry of Health will clean up current food standards to reduce loopholes and contradictions,” Deputy Health Minister Chen Xiaohong told a press conference organized by the State Council Information Office.
He said the ministry, working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Standardization Administration, had started cleaning up and revising dairy …

 
beijing:Shen noted there was a small number of parents who rejected tHundreds of families with children sickened in last year’s tainted milk scandal are planning to file lawsuits against the dairy companies involved after a top justice official said courts will accept the cases, an organizer of victims’ families said Wednesday.
The lawsuits would allow for compensation outside of a government-sanctioned plan that gave lump sums to victims’ families. The majority of the more than 600 families refused to accept the money from the dairies, demanding higher amounts including money for emotional …

CHINA’S food safety situation is still “grim,” but some improvements have been made in the wake of a baby formula scandal last year that killed at least six babies and sickened another 300,000, the Health Ministry said yesterday.
The comments came after China’s legislature enacted a food safety law last Saturday that promised tougher penalties for makers of tainted products after serious flaws were exposed in the monitoring of the nation’s food supply.
“At present, China’s food security situation remains grim, with high risks and contradictions,” the ministry said in a news …