Russia law change to increase costs for alcohol imports
Russia's new rules for alcoholic beverage imports will increase costs by as much as 10 times for EU and North American exporters to the country according to a report on the changes.
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Barry Callebaut chocolate could be good for the brain
The world's leading cocoa processor Barry Callebaut said yesterday that it had new evidence to support the anti-cancer and anti-ageing benefits of its healthy chocolate Acticoa.
Food regulator calls for release of cancer study data on aspartame
EU processors will have to wait longer to find out if they can continue to use aspartame, after the EU's food safety regulator said it had still not received evidence from an Italian research centre indicating that the artificial sweetener causes cancer.
EU experts meet to discuss problems with packaging chemical
A EU food safety committee is meeting in Brussels today to discuss the contamination of milk and other products with a chemical used by Tetra Pak in its packaging process.