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MEPs vote for 'comprehensive' cloning ban

By Niamh Michail

MEPs voted yesterday to ban imports of food from cloned animals and their descendants - but the European Commission has called the amendments 'disproportionate' and even 'legally impossible'.

Nationalism is not the solution - we're all in this milk price crisis together, says the Dutch Dairy Association (NZO)

Milk crisis nationalism is anti-EU, Dutch tell Commission

By Annie Harrison-Dunn

Calls from the French National Federation of Dairy Cooperatives (FNCL) to stop imports of foreign dairy products are contrary to EU single market principles, Dutch groups have complained to the European Commission.

The decision was made at the Codex Alimentarius Commission's 38th meeting in Geneva

dispatches from codex alimentarius, geneva

Dairy permeate powder standard work approved by Codex

By Joseph James Whitworth

An international standard on the identity, compositional quality and safety of powders made from dairy permeates has come a step closer.

Codex discussed the standard at its 38th meeting in Geneva

DISPATCHES FROM CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, GENEVA

Consensus not reached by Codex on rBST standard

By Joseph James Whitworth

The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has decided not to adopt a standard on draft maximum residue limits (MRLs) for bovine somatotropin after a mammoth debate during its 38th session.

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