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Science 21 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5452, pp. 403 - 405
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5452.403b
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EUROPEAN UNION:
E.U. Grabs Food Safety by the Horns

Robert Koenig

With no single agency responsible for establishing and enforcing food safety standards across the European Union's (E.U.'s) 15 member states, national governments are frequently at each others' throats. Last week, the European Commission proposed a slew of measures aimed at strengthening and harmonizing its scientific analyses of European food safety issues. The centerpiece would be a new European Food Authority--a permanent scientific advisory body with its own research budget and scientific staff--and a scientific secretariat to coordinate advice from scientists who serve on E.U. advisory panels.

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