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  • The CITES department investigates Afrormosia

  • Extension to GMO field tests with maize and poplars in 2013

  • 2012 Activity Report of the Animal, Plant and Food Directorate-General online

  • FOODSUP: food supplements and enriched foodstuffs are now registered online

  • Official reports for sale of alcohol to minors multiplied by four

  • Public consultation: application for a field trial with genetically modified poplars

  • The CITES department investigates Afrormosia

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    The CITES department of the Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment started an investigation, following a tip-off given by Greenpeace, into two consignments of Afrormosia (or African teak) amounting to a total of 40 m³ from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thanks to good cooperation and a quick intervention by the Port of Antwerp’s Customs, it was possible to provisionally block the timber and inform the relevant com...
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  • Extension to GMO field tests with maize and poplars in 2013

    Field testing of genetically modified poplars, begun in 2009, and the field testing of GMO maize, which started last year, are both to be continued this year. The relevant ministers and the State Secretary have given the go-ahead.
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  • 2012 Activity Report of the Animal, Plant and Food Directorate-General online

    The good news is that Bisphenol A has been banned from children’s drinking bottles, and safer crop protection products have been introduced for gardeners. But alas there are more cases of extreme animal neglect, and still too many bars and cafés are flouting the smoking ban. You can read about all these things - and many more besides - in the 2012 Activity Report of the Animal, Plant and Food Directorate-General.
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  • FOODSUP: food supplements and enriched foodstuffs are now registered online

    Today, 26 February 2013, saw the launch of the revolutionary new FOODSUP application for the electronic registration of food supplements and enriched foodstuffs. With this application, the FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment can process registration applications more quickly and above all communicate much more efficiently with the companies and other official bodies concerned.
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  • Official reports for sale of alcohol to minors multiplied by four

    Inspectors from the Tobacco and Alcohol Service of the FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment carried out 4,150 checks last year with regard to the prohibited sale of alcohol to minors. This is double the number of inspections performed in 2010, the year in which the sale prohibition was introduced.
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  • Public consultation: application for a field trial with genetically modified poplars

    The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment wishes to inform you of an application for a field trial with genetically modified poplars intended to evaluate their possible use as a raw material for renewable bio-based products and bio-energy. The public consultation on this trial will take place from 5 February to 7 March 2013 inclusive.
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