EU considers lifting BSE feed ban
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The European Commission funds research on whether to lift its ban on feeding animal remains to livestock.
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The European Union could consider legislation to regulate the junk food industry so as to tackle the continent's increasing obesity problem, the EU's health commissioner said.
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The European Union proposed a ban Monday on the sale and import of dog and cat fur in all 25 member nations, saying it has been found in some clothing, toys and other items on sale in Europe.
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The EU Commission hopes for a vaccine next year to protect farms against the bluetongue strain moving northwards through Europe, and is planning rule changes to help, a spokesman said Monday.
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The Food Standards Agency says it is investigating whether bird flu-infected meat could have got into the food chain.
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The European Union has asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to order the United States and Canada to lift sanctions on EU exports because of EU&#39;s ban on hormone beef.
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Hungary's government sees a good  chance that an upcoming meeting of European Union environment  ministers will allow it to maintain its ban on genetically  modified crops, the Environment Ministry said on Monday.
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The European Union said Wednesday it had extended a ban on imports of chicken meat and pet birds from several Asian countries hit by avian flu to March 31 next year.
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Foot and mouth disease has struck a new cattle farm in southern England, the government said on Wednesday, prompting the European Union to suspend a decision to lift its ban on British meat exports.
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The European Union has lifted import bans on Canadian poultry that were imposed after an outbreak of bird flu in the western province of British Columbia, officials said on Friday.
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The outbreak of deadly bird flu in  Asia spurred the EU on Monday to check Europe's preparedness  for the spread of a disease that scientists warn may become  pandemic.
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Britain's food safety watchdog is investigating if meat infected with the avian flu virus entered the food chain following an outbreak of the disease on a farm run by Europe's largest poultry producer.
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Foot and mouth disease has struck a new cattle farm in southern England, the government said on Wednesday, prompting the European Union to ban British meat exports.
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Science & environment: A European-wide ruling to increase wheat supply could have a 'devastating effect' on Britain's already threatened farmland birds, RSPB warns.
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BUCHAREST, Aug 28 (IPS) - Romania was hoping to put an end this year to a ban  on pork exports to the European Union (EU), but several swine  pest outbreaks at the farms of U.S. company Smithfield will cause  the interdiction to be prolonged for at least two more years.
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Markets and exhibitions involving livestock, banned in Britain since an outbreak of the foot and mouth virus on August 3, will be allowed to resume from Monday, the agriculture ministry said.
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The European Commission is likely to authorize the first genetically modified (GMO) seeds for commercial use across EU territory this week, in the face of widespread consumer resistance to biotech crops.