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an eu funded project is building the critical mass of knowledge required to ensure that europe meets the lisbon objective of becoming the world's most competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010, reports cordis. the european knowledge management forum (km forum) is a three year thematic network, funded under the ist (information society technologies) programme of the fifth framework programme (fp5).

the world health organisation, the body that recently tasted the wrath of the us sugar industry when it published a report into diet and health that set a ceiling of 10 per cent for sugar consumption in an overall diet, welcomed the food industry with open arms at a high-level round table meeting hosted by who director-general dr gro harlem brundtland last week. describing the meeting as "a positive beginning", dr brundtland said it formally launched what the who hoped would be an ongoing and constructive high-level dialogue with private sector companies.

rhodiafood, part of french speciality chemicals company rhodia, recently announced that it would hike up the price of its rhodigel™ food grade xanthan gum by 10 per cent. effective from 1 july 2003, the increase is occuring in a market where demand remains strong - average growth of 5-6 per cent per year - but recently installed industrial capacities have been quickly absorbed by the market and no new significant units are forecast by the manufacturer.

the food industry, consumers and politicians in europe are alive to the sound of three words - genetically modified organisms (gmos). barely a day goes by without a reference to this controversial aspect of biotechnology. and the last few days are no exception. on 8 may 2003 the british science group, the royal society, called on all organisations claiming that foodstuffs containing ingredients from genetically modified plants are inherently less safe than their non-gm conventional counterparts to come up with evidence to prove their case.

discussions relating to european enlargement and the role the food industry must play in meeting current european food safety standards are rife across current, and potential, member states. for raymond o' rourke, a food lawyer at the dublin-based firm mason hayes & curran, the first conflicts between the accession countries and eu after enlargement next may will be over food safety. but, he questions, has europe learnt from the recent commission versus france dispute over the english beef ban? and what happens if a member state chooses to flout the law? "the eu food regulatory regime, unfortunately, is badly prepared for the accession of 10 new member states next may, not because these countries have failed to transpose all the mandatory eu food laws into their own national law, but because the eu has neglected to deal comprehensively with the fall-out of the uk french beef war case [commission v.