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a review of cloning is underway at the european food safety authority (efsa) following a request from the european commission for further advice on the implications of the technology for food safety, animal health and welfare and the environment. efsa has initiated a public consultation period to collate data to support the review, and the agency said that it aims to build on its july 2008 recommendations regarding clones.

an advisory committee for japan's food safety regulator has said that food made from cloned animals is safe to eat. in april last year, the food safety commission was asked to deliberate on the matter by japan’s ministry of health. “foods derived from cloned cows and swine, and from the offspring of clones, are as safe as food from conventionally bred animals,” said the working group in its report published today.

the uk government has set in motion a review of food policy and strategies with the publication of an analytical study on current and emerging food trends. among the analysis, the report found that the british diet has shifted considerably in recent history. while the origin of food is becoming a more important factor, people have been eating more pre-prepared foods in the last ten years.

warranted or not, it comes as no surprise to learn that there is growing concern among uk consumers over food safety. according to new research from mintel, 41 per cent of adults were concerned about the safety of food in 1997, while in 2002 this figure has risen to 44 per cent of consumers. the report revealed that there is a considerable difference in attitude between men and women with over half of women (51 per cent) worried about food safety, compared to just 36 per cent of men.

the uk food standards agency (fsa) has created a list of recommendations to the food industry designed to reduce saturated fat and to increase the availability of healthier options and smaller portion sizes in savoury snacks. meat products and dairy foods are key contributors of saturated fat and calories to our diet, the fsa noted. many savoury snacks have been reformulated to reduce saturated fat recently, but they remain a focus because they are often high in fat and calories.

environmental campaigners urged the uk food standards agency (fsa) to improve its emergency system at yesterday's review meeting on the unauthorised gm rice incident. the meeting re-evaluated the fsa's handling of the discovery of the illegal ll rice 601, unapproved for human consumption, in american long grain rice supplies for export in august 2006. friends of the earth gm campaigner clare oxborrow said: "the incident revealed a vulnerability with the agency's lack of knowledge on the structure of the market and where the major food products went to.

the uk joined the ongoing and heated debate about the meat alternative product quorn this week when the uk food standards agency (fsa) rejected claims by an american organisation that the mycoprotein quorn is unsafe. last month the us centre for science in the public interest (cspi) had asked the us food and drug administration (fda) to stop marketing quorn products and direct its parent company, britain's marlow foods, to recall all the products from supermarkets.

signs that the functional food market is gaining ground were revealed this week when the uk food standards agency announced it is considering a 'novel food' application by a food manufacturer to market 'milk and yoghurt type' products with an ingredient that lowers cholesterol. the ingredient has already been cleared for use in flora pro-active spreads and the application comes from the same manufacturer, unilever.

the uk food standards agency (fsa) is to propose a strategy this week for the control of mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (map) in milk. map is a bacterium that is known to cause a chronic gastrointestinal infection called johne\'s disease in cattle and other ruminants. it is also implicated in crohn\'s disease in humans, a chronic bowel inflammation condition. a study commissioned by the fsa found that map was present in around 2 per cent of pasteurised milk.