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Reports/Facts on finding comes up with some interesting points: they suggest, for example, that with alcoholic drinks, the original cereals should be given. This recommendation should have considerable impact on some spirits. Coffee and chicory mixtures, French coffee and Viennese coffee should also provide a complete list of ingredients. Other examples from the dairy foods are discussed. Several paragraphs are devoted to listing generic terms, giving the
coverage for each term and the Committee’s comments. ‘Cocoa butter’, ‘other fish’, and ‘cheese cultures’, of new ‘bakery jam’ are examples generic terms. A list is also included of generic terms for food additives. A number of generic terms are rejected by the Committee, for which the reasons are provided. For example ‘fruit juices’ is considered too broad a term; the individual fruit juices used should be specifically identified. A
number
of
additives
were
terms
used
also
with
rejected,
food
such
as
and ‘yeast foods’.
‘sequestrant’,
I.D. Morton, Queen Elizabeth
College, London, UK
’
Ministry
of
Agriculture,
Fisheries
and
Committee, Food Standards Food, Review of Food Labelling, Part II, ‘Exemptions from ingredient listing and generic terms’, HMSO, London, 1977.
Facts on funding This
section
is a regular
projects sponsored submission
feature
providing
by international
information
organizations.
of notices and press releases
on food-related
aid
FOOD POLICY welcomes
concerning
World Bank/l DA
the
such grants and loans for
23
March
Two
credits:
Afghanistan, $40
listinq in the column.
000
000.
fruit and vegetable for irrigation
1978, to assist
export project; and
project
to increase
rice
and wheat production.
World Food Programme Angola,
3
Emergency
April
1978,
Togo,
$4 7, 600.
food aid for refugees from
South Africa. Burundi,
7
$7 672 450.
1978,
February
Maize,
wheat
and oils, and transportation drought-related Maize
13
$901
March,
Bissau,
000.
Volta,
$2 353
000.
of
$3
$2 203
transport
subsidy
7 February
Shipment
500.
1978,
Argentina, $105
23
000
24
January Sorghum
feeding
123 215.
needs
of
1978, for
of
persons 1978,
over
3
million
persons
Vietnam,
28
1978,
February
$7 489
000.
Additional
(wheat
flour)
for
$21
000
typhoon
food
aid
and
war
victims.
2
000.
production,
000
3
000.
April
Credit
areas
of
storage project. $18
000
16
January
000.
Loan
1978,
and
crop shortfall caused by drought. 78
$5 548 300. milk powder
Sorghum, corn meal and to be distributed mainly
to
women,
January
children
1978,
and
18 January
Contribution
Senegal,
other
programme
to village for
of Andhra
include agricultural
Organization
Shipment
$711
000.
Namibian
Emergency
food
refugees
children, women
FOOD
in Angola,
19 78, aid
for
mainly
and elderly.
POLICY August 1978
of
utensils, water and blankets attacks.
with Indian
cyclone-damaged Pradesh.
and water projects. Lebanon, 30 March
5 April
f 125 000.
reconstruction
in conjunction
government, area
1978,
vulnerable population groups. Africa People’s South West (SWAPO),
credit
finance livestock development for
production,
Proposals
land rehabilitation 19 78, f 78 000.
cooking purification for refugees
and
eating
equipment from Israeli
to
project,
processing
and
from
and
alpaca
and
veterinary
19 78, $24
Loan for rural development India,
for
1978, foodgrain
for
services also to be provided.
in
jute
primarily
costs,
Brazil, 30 March
feeding
1978,
assist
Mali, 26 January 1978, $2 74 1 000. Allocation of maize and sorghum for supplementary
grain
farmers.
Bangladesh, $25
to
drought victims.
UNICEF
a
February
Credit
marketing of wool llama. Extension
of maize to aid
1978,
for
increase yields and reduce
production
Bolivia,
by two typhoons.
Loan
storage project.
smallholder
Food aid to help meet
February
000.
Bangladesh,
Upper
affected by drought. Vietnam, 17 January
feeding
population
groups.
affected
Maize and internal for drought victims. Guineau
vulnerable
specially
supplementary
150 000 persons. Guinea,
for
$4 12 000.
and soy blend)
funds, for
19 78, $1 782 000.
for supplementary
1978,
wheat
flour, fats
food deficits.
Chad, 26 January
7 February
Aid (including
000
000.
project
in
eastern Paraiba. Cameroon, $29
000
23 000.
rice irrigation region, Cameroon,
000
1978,
help in
finance northern
March
Credit for project
1978, to aid
farmers increase of coffee, cocoa, rice, fish
and other crops. Cameroon, 30 $73
to
project 9
$8 500 000. low-income production
January
Loan
000.
March
Credit
to
1978, increase
227
Facts otzfunding/Conferences production western
of food crops and coffee in
highlands.
Chad, 30 March
1978,
Credit for project
$17
to develop
500
000.
livestock
production. Ethiopia,
6 April
7978,
$24
000
1978,
$726
000
Credit to help finance irrigation in Karnataka Jamaica,
9
000
000.
rehabilitation industry. Korea, Loan
Loan to help finance programme
planned create
rural
a
in the sugar
and
23
Loan
aimed
$95
000
infrastructure
to increase employment
000.
project
food production, raise and
development
at rural poor in state of
production
of
Philippines, 000
2
000
provision
March
000.
7978,
Loan
towards
of irrigation project.
Philippines, $28
Senegal,
73 000.
April
development Sudan, $25
Credit
for
project
of irrigation,
and health
services,
production
of paddy.
Romania,
financing transportation
and to increase
27
Loan
to help
1978, finance
March Credit
project,
1978, for a livestock
both
for
Thailand,
9
100 000.
planning
February
local 1978,
Credit for country’s first
project
primary
in
River.
and for export.
to
7978, assist
to
consumption $33
rough-
of irrigated agriculture
000000.
to provide
health
services
care to over
and
access family
14 million
villagers. Yemen, $5 200
?6 000.
development March
2 7
rural
and
March Credit
delta of Senegal
population 7978,
tractor
9
marketing
$85000000.
incomes.
of
7978, assist
to
agricultural
infrastructure 1978,
rehabilitation
February
000.
completion
1978,
000.
Selangor.
$65 February
9 March for
project
state.
000
$20000000.
integrated
000.
$13
for replanting rubber.
project 6 April
1978,
terrain tyres.
$26000
000.
and marketing
project.
$78
3 April
Loan and credit to support programme
Malaysia,
Credit for grain storage
India,
Liberia,
incomes
February Credit
for
1978, agricultural
project designed
for families
to raise
on cooperative
farms.
Conferences Consumers’ European
League
interests and the CAP
for Economic
Co-operation
conference
Voice in Europe’, Cafe Royal, London, UK, 7-8December,
The European League for Economic Cooperation held a conference at the Cafe Royal in London on ‘The Consumers’ Voice in Europe’, 7 and 8 1977. The speakers December broad range of represented a including farmers, organizations retailers, government, the National Consumer Council and - not least -the processors of food. The Treaty of Rome does not specifically provide for representation of the interests of the consumer in the decision-making process, because the Economic Community’s European (EEC’s) founders expected that satisfaction of the consumer’s interests would automatically follow from the Treaty’s laissez faire economic philosophy. However, it is obvious that neither is the Common Agricultural Policy {CAP) - perhaps the focus of attention of the conference - a Eaissez faire policy, nor are the interests of or processors of food consumers adequately taken into consideration in
228
on The Consumers’ 1977
the decision making process in Brussels.
Schizophrenia At the inaugural dinner on 7 December Hector Laing, Chairman of United Biscuits and Chairman of The Food and Drink Industries Council, drew attention to the difficuIties that the CAP is causing for the food processing industry.’ He felt that politicians, in a schizophrenic attempt to increase the individual earnings of persons engaged in agriculture, while at the same time protecting consumers from the resultant price increases, try to reconcile the difficuity by penafzing the processor with the imposition of price controls. So long
as food and drink manufacturers have to pay prices for some raw materials
which they are prohibited from passing on to the consumer in full, their margins will continue to be eroded, their comparative efficiency will decline, as will their traditionally high standard of service to the consumer.
Mr Laing strongly
doubted whether the consumer appreciates that the food industry will only be able to give good value for money in the long term if all links in the food chain - farmer, processor and retailer - are allowed to make a satisfactory return on investment in order to keep their industries competitive on the international marketplace. Mr Cecil Parkinson, MP (Conservative Front Bench Spokesman on Trade), emphasized as did other speakers who followed him, that the consumer must be given a greater say and more opportunity for consultation before harmonization proposals were drafted by the Commission. In particular, he stressed the contribution that freer international trade would make to the long term interests of within consumers the European Community.
Consumer consultation A speech read for Mr Richard Burke, Commissioner of the European Communities for Consumer Affairs, outfined the ~ommission’s PreIiminary Programme for a Consumer Protection Information Policy. and The Commission, he said, wants to develop its cooperation with consumers, and to
FOOD
POLICY
August.
1978
coverage for each term and the Committee’s comments. ‘Cocoa butter’, ‘other fish’, and ‘cheese cultures’, of new ‘bakery jam’ are examples generic terms. A list is also included of generic terms for food additives. A number of generic terms are rejected by the Committee, for which the reasons are provided. For example ‘fruit juices’ is considered too broad a term; the individual fruit juices used should be specifically identified. A
number
of
additives
were
terms
used
also
with
rejected,
food
such
as
and ‘yeast foods’.
‘sequestrant’,
I.D. Morton, Queen Elizabeth
College, London, UK
’
Ministry
of
Agriculture,
Fisheries
and
Committee, Food Standards Food, Review of Food Labelling, Part II, ‘Exemptions from ingredient listing and generic terms’, HMSO, London, 1977.
Facts on funding This
section
is a regular
projects sponsored submission
feature
providing
by international
information
organizations.
of notices and press releases
on food-related
aid
FOOD POLICY welcomes
concerning
World Bank/l DA
the
such grants and loans for
23
March
Two
credits:
Afghanistan, $40
listinq in the column.
000
000.
fruit and vegetable for irrigation
1978, to assist
export project; and
project
to increase
rice
and wheat production.
World Food Programme Angola,
3
Emergency
April
1978,
Togo,
$4 7, 600.
food aid for refugees from
South Africa. Burundi,
7
$7 672 450.
1978,
February
Maize,
wheat
and oils, and transportation drought-related Maize
13
$901
March,
Bissau,
000.
Volta,
$2 353
000.
of
$3
$2 203
transport
subsidy
7 February
Shipment
500.
1978,
Argentina, $105
23
000
24
January Sorghum
feeding
123 215.
needs
of
1978, for
of
persons 1978,
over
3
million
persons
Vietnam,
28
1978,
February
$7 489
000.
Additional
(wheat
flour)
for
$21
000
typhoon
food
aid
and
war
victims.
2
000.
production,
000
3
000.
April
Credit
areas
of
storage project. $18
000
16
January
000.
Loan
1978,
and
crop shortfall caused by drought. 78
$5 548 300. milk powder
Sorghum, corn meal and to be distributed mainly
to
women,
January
children
1978,
and
18 January
Contribution
Senegal,
other
programme
to village for
of Andhra
include agricultural
Organization
Shipment
$711
000.
Namibian
Emergency
food
refugees
children, women
FOOD
in Angola,
19 78, aid
for
mainly
and elderly.
POLICY August 1978
of
utensils, water and blankets attacks.
with Indian
cyclone-damaged Pradesh.
and water projects. Lebanon, 30 March
5 April
f 125 000.
reconstruction
in conjunction
government, area
1978,
vulnerable population groups. Africa People’s South West (SWAPO),
credit
finance livestock development for
production,
Proposals
land rehabilitation 19 78, f 78 000.
cooking purification for refugees
and
eating
equipment from Israeli
to
project,
processing
and
from
and
alpaca
and
veterinary
19 78, $24
Loan for rural development India,
for
1978, foodgrain
for
services also to be provided.
in
jute
primarily
costs,
Brazil, 30 March
feeding
1978,
assist
Mali, 26 January 1978, $2 74 1 000. Allocation of maize and sorghum for supplementary
grain
farmers.
Bangladesh, $25
to
drought victims.
UNICEF
a
February
Credit
marketing of wool llama. Extension
of maize to aid
1978,
for
increase yields and reduce
production
Bolivia,
by two typhoons.
Loan
storage project.
smallholder
Food aid to help meet
February
000.
Bangladesh,
Upper
affected by drought. Vietnam, 17 January
feeding
population
groups.
affected
Maize and internal for drought victims. Guineau
vulnerable
specially
supplementary
150 000 persons. Guinea,
for
$4 12 000.
and soy blend)
funds, for
19 78, $1 782 000.
for supplementary
1978,
wheat
flour, fats
food deficits.
Chad, 26 January
7 February
Aid (including
000
000.
project
in
eastern Paraiba. Cameroon, $29
000
23 000.
rice irrigation region, Cameroon,
000
1978,
help in
finance northern
March
Credit for project
1978, to aid
farmers increase of coffee, cocoa, rice, fish
and other crops. Cameroon, 30 $73
to
project 9
$8 500 000. low-income production
January
Loan
000.
March
Credit
to
1978, increase
227
Facts otzfunding/Conferences production western
of food crops and coffee in
highlands.
Chad, 30 March
1978,
Credit for project
$17
to develop
500
000.
livestock
production. Ethiopia,
6 April
7978,
$24
000
1978,
$726
000
Credit to help finance irrigation in Karnataka Jamaica,
9
000
000.
rehabilitation industry. Korea, Loan
Loan to help finance programme
planned create
rural
a
in the sugar
and
23
Loan
aimed
$95
000
infrastructure
to increase employment
000.
project
food production, raise and
development
at rural poor in state of
production
of
Philippines, 000
2
000
provision
March
000.
7978,
Loan
towards
of irrigation project.
Philippines, $28
Senegal,
73 000.
April
development Sudan, $25
Credit
for
project
of irrigation,
and health
services,
production
of paddy.
Romania,
financing transportation
and to increase
27
Loan
to help
1978, finance
March Credit
project,
1978, for a livestock
both
for
Thailand,
9
100 000.
planning
February
local 1978,
Credit for country’s first
project
primary
in
River.
and for export.
to
7978, assist
to
consumption $33
rough-
of irrigated agriculture
000000.
to provide
health
services
care to over
and
access family
14 million
villagers. Yemen, $5 200
?6 000.
development March
2 7
rural
and
March Credit
delta of Senegal
population 7978,
tractor
9
marketing
$85000000.
incomes.
of
7978, assist
to
agricultural
infrastructure 1978,
rehabilitation
February
000.
completion
1978,
000.
Selangor.
$65 February
9 March for
project
state.
000
$20000000.
integrated
000.
$13
for replanting rubber.
project 6 April
1978,
terrain tyres.
$26000
000.
and marketing
project.
$78
3 April
Loan and credit to support programme
Malaysia,
Credit for grain storage
India,
Liberia,
incomes
February Credit
for
1978, agricultural
project designed
for families
to raise
on cooperative
farms.
Conferences Consumers’ European
League
interests and the CAP
for Economic
Co-operation
conference
Voice in Europe’, Cafe Royal, London, UK, 7-8December,
The European League for Economic Cooperation held a conference at the Cafe Royal in London on ‘The Consumers’ Voice in Europe’, 7 and 8 1977. The speakers December broad range of represented a including farmers, organizations retailers, government, the National Consumer Council and - not least -the processors of food. The Treaty of Rome does not specifically provide for representation of the interests of the consumer in the decision-making process, because the Economic Community’s European (EEC’s) founders expected that satisfaction of the consumer’s interests would automatically follow from the Treaty’s laissez faire economic philosophy. However, it is obvious that neither is the Common Agricultural Policy {CAP) - perhaps the focus of attention of the conference - a Eaissez faire policy, nor are the interests of or processors of food consumers adequately taken into consideration in
228
on The Consumers’ 1977
the decision making process in Brussels.
Schizophrenia At the inaugural dinner on 7 December Hector Laing, Chairman of United Biscuits and Chairman of The Food and Drink Industries Council, drew attention to the difficuIties that the CAP is causing for the food processing industry.’ He felt that politicians, in a schizophrenic attempt to increase the individual earnings of persons engaged in agriculture, while at the same time protecting consumers from the resultant price increases, try to reconcile the difficuity by penafzing the processor with the imposition of price controls. So long
as food and drink manufacturers have to pay prices for some raw materials
which they are prohibited from passing on to the consumer in full, their margins will continue to be eroded, their comparative efficiency will decline, as will their traditionally high standard of service to the consumer.
Mr Laing strongly
doubted whether the consumer appreciates that the food industry will only be able to give good value for money in the long term if all links in the food chain - farmer, processor and retailer - are allowed to make a satisfactory return on investment in order to keep their industries competitive on the international marketplace. Mr Cecil Parkinson, MP (Conservative Front Bench Spokesman on Trade), emphasized as did other speakers who followed him, that the consumer must be given a greater say and more opportunity for consultation before harmonization proposals were drafted by the Commission. In particular, he stressed the contribution that freer international trade would make to the long term interests of within consumers the European Community.
Consumer consultation A speech read for Mr Richard Burke, Commissioner of the European Communities for Consumer Affairs, outfined the ~ommission’s PreIiminary Programme for a Consumer Protection Information Policy. and The Commission, he said, wants to develop its cooperation with consumers, and to
FOOD
POLICY
August.
1978