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The recent dioxins scare in Germany highlights the challenge of keeping unsafe food out of the supply chain. Nothing illustrates more neatly the interlocking web that is...

Dalli says hygiene law could be ‘reinforced' as dioxin scare closes thousands of farms. The European Union is contemplating tougher food hygiene rules, following the...

There should be less bickering between supporters of rival food labelling systems and more action to provide important information for consumers. When you are buying...

Rules will be tightened on everything from the metals used to noise levels. The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of new rules to make children's...

EU is set to hold a trilateral meeting with China and the US in an effort to forestall repeat of toy recalls. Meglena Kuneva, the European commissioner for consumer...

Consumer groups back ban, and want higher safety standards on both sides of the Atlantic. You report ‘Commission split over bid to lift ban on US poultry' (19-26 March)....

Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen is to give the manufacturing industry an easy ride in a forthcoming overhaul of key legislation intended to...

As chair of the European Parliamentary committee responsible for product and for toy safety, Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), I fully support the need for...

The European Commission is pressing the US administration to strengthen its consumer protection authority to permit an exchange of information across the Atlantic on product...

An increasing number of EU rules setting standards for food aim to make what European citizens eat as free of risk as possible. Emily Smith reports. European food companies...

Almost a thousand dangerous products, many made in China, had to be taken off the EU market last year to remove risks of burns, poisoning, electric shocks and suffocation. A...

Brussels, 3 April 1997LAST-DITCH efforts to avert a full-scale trade war with the US are continuing as the clock ticks away towards the effective 15 April deadline for a deal...

We represent a coalition of European health and consumer groups concerned about the vote next Wednesday (25 May) in the European Parliament on the regulation on health and...

POLAND is due to be reprimanded by the European Commission next week for its failure to bring its food safety standards up to those of the EU. Brussels officials have...

I was disappointed by Karen Carstens' articles on food safety (European Voice 31 October – 6 November), and in particular with her touting of the food industry's telephone...

AMONG the many controversial issues in the European Union enlargement debate, food safety standards that must be put into effect by the candidate countries are often...

Q The January 2000 White Paper on Food Safety announced 84 initiatives for improving the quality and safety of food production. But some of the most serious safety lapses...

COUNTRIES that persistently break food safety laws could face stiff financial sanctions under proposals being drawn up by food safety chief David Byrne. He said he would...

EU MINISTERS will be urged next week to set up a European consumer safety agency in a bid to reduce the number of deaths and injuries resulting from accidents in homes. The...

FOOD hygiene proposals introduced in the wake of the BSE crisis could penalise developing countries and lead to a trade war, industry has warned. Manufacturers say the move...