New organisation launched for Central European pharmaceutical industry
A new organisation - Consilient Health - was launched in Brussels on 28 March to...
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Growth promoting antibiotics to be banned in feed
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The European Commission has presented proposals to prohibit the use of antibiotics as growth-promoting feed...
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A license to cure
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White Paper on Transport under scrutiny
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On 20 March 2002, the European Parliament's Transport Committee held a public hearing on the...
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Discovery of prions in muscle leads to new food safety fears
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A team of US researchers led by Nobel prize winner Stanley Prusiner at the University...
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Commission steps up controls on Asian food imports
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On Tuesday 19 March 2002, the EU Standing Committee for the Food Chain and Animal...
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EP condemns as premature proposals to phase out tobacco subsidies
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The European Parliament has adopted a non-binding Opinion condemning the Commission's attempts to begin phasing...
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MEPs support stricter regulation of vitamins
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On 13 March 2002, the European Parliament adopted a report on the Directive on food...
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Commission acts against unfair competition from non-EU airlines
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On 12 March the European Commission proposed a legal measure "to react against unfair competition...
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Attack on subsidised non-EU airlines could increase EU-US trade tensions
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The European Commission has plans to penalise non-EU airlines, receiving "unfair" state subsidies, by introducing...
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