11-Oct-2000 - Six global vitamin producers have agreed to pay $335m to settle a lawsuit in the US, in a continuing crackdown on vitamin price-fixing, the Financial...
10-Oct-2000 - The UK Soil Association has approved an organic encapsulated Sodium Bicarbonate produced by TasteTech, a Bristol food technology company. The ingredient is encapsulated by coating...
10-Oct-2000 - A US judge last week upheld the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruling that genetically modified (GM) food products need not be labelled. The ruling...
29-Sep-2000 - The European Commission announced this week that it would be lifting testing restrictions and reducing the frequency of checks imposed since 1999, on all fresh...
29-Sep-2000 - Poland and the EU have reached an agreement to free up trade in agricultural goods. The deal will allow around 75 per cent of current...
25-Sep-2000 - The UK Food Standards Agency is to press for far reaching changes in European food labelling rules to provide clearer information for consumers, tighter controls...
21-Sep-2000 - The US government is allowing farmers to display the new seal, "Free Farmed" on meat and dairy products to attest that they meet new voluntary...
15-Sep-2000 - The U.K Food Standards Agency is to start public consultation until the beginning of November on its draft report of BSE controls. Sir Joh Krebs,...
14-Sep-2000 - The European Commission announced this week in the Council Regulation (EC) No 1928/2000 additional aid for tomato concentrate and derivatives for the 1999/2000 marketing year....
12-Sep-2000 - The European Commission has unveiled plans for the compulsory labelling of eggs sold throughout the European Union. Under the new rules, which would replace existing...
08-Sep-2000 - Manufacturers of infant food are lobbying the World Health Organisation (WHO) to delay any change to its recommendations on the optimal length of exclusive breast...
07-Sep-2000 - Anglo-Dutch Unilever and Finnish Raisio were given the go-ahead by U.S regulators to market their cholesterol-fighting spreads as proven cholesterol-cutting products for the first time....
06-Sep-2000 - European Union farm ministers meeting this week in Biarritz, France, were divided over how fast to clear new genetically modified crops and maintain public confidence...
01-Sep-2000 - The Dutch Government is to help Hungary set up a regional food safety centre near Budapest, according to Laurens Jan Brinkhorst Minister of Agriculture, Environment...
01-Sep-2000 - The Dutch Government is to help Hungary set up a regional food safety centre near Budapest, according to Laurens Jan Brinkhorst Minister of Agriculture, Environment...
23-Aug-2000 - Proposals to change current UK legislation on BSE protection measures - bringing it into line with new measures across the European Union - were issued...
22-Aug-2000 - New regulations on labelling of genetically modified foods, made in Wellington, New Zealand last month by Health Ministers from New Zealand and Australian State and...