By all appearances, it will be a while until the European food chain becomes certifiably horse-free.
Scientists at the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) looked at 180 health claims for the supplements.
Last week the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) initiated a public consultation on its draft guidance.
European officials say they hope a pan-European food-safety agency will, in time, make things less muddled.
European food ingredient companies saw their stocks gain after Danisco's approval of the DuPont merger, including fellow Danish firm Novozymes.
Last week the European Food Safety Authority warned that neonicotinoid pesticides should not be used on crops attractive to honey bees.
For weeks now, the European food industry has been rocked by a scandal involving meat products tainted with horse and donkey meat.
Until then, very little European food culture had influenced the region.
The European Food Safety Authority started reviewing food health claims in 2006 and has rejected 80% of more than 900 proposed claims to date.
The European Food Safety Authority has rejected 80% of more than 900 proposed claims over the past several years because they are lacking strong evidence.
Bulgaria, Portugal and Spain on Thursday became the latest countries to detect horse meat in food products labeled as beef in the widening European food scandal.
So far, European food manufacturers and retailers, fearful of losing customers, have tended to avoid putting GM ingredients even those approved before the EU moratorium in their products.
So when he heard that most of the other countries wanted to award the new European Food Safety Agency not to Parma in Italy but to Helsinki in Finland, he exploded.
In 2010, the European Food Safety Authority published a report outlining analysis of 612 rice samples from the EU, finding average levels of just a few tens of parts per billion.
Meanwhile, the prime minister of Romania, where two abattoirs are alleged to have sold horsemeat purported to be beef to European food companies, has said that the scandal is a continent-wide problem.
But a spokesman for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said that while the organisation had concluded that fish could feel pain, in the EU, decapods were not classified as sentient species.
The European Commission has not conducted a proper impact assessment of the legislation in question, but the British government and independent experts predict that it could have a devastating effect on European food production.
The science based view of this issue took a sharp turn in January when the European Food Safety Authority issued three studies raising questions about the potential role of neonics in this latest wave of bee deaths.
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published their opinion on a French study that found severe impacts on the health of rats fed with genetically engineered maize or exposed to a low dosage of herbicides.
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That's because they typically require studies that meet a long list of criteria, says Wolfgang Dekant, a toxicologist at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany and a member of a panel that reviewed BPA research a few years ago for the European Food Safety Authority.
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The study was publicized widely throughout the world, but it was denounced by the European Union Food Safety Authority, rejected in a rare joint statement by the six French national scientific academies, and ridiculed by scores of scientists.
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Already, many consumers know that European farm support inflates food prices.
Except for wild game, wild mushrooms, wild berries and fish and shellfish, virtually all the food in European and American diets has long been derived from genetically modified organisms yes, even the organic stuff at Whole Foods and the local farmers market.
National food-industry associations in several European countries are calling for voluntary labelling of any food containing a genetically modified ingredient.
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But Europe has pathologies of its own, especially that of the over-ambitious bureaucracy, such as the European Union agencies that regulate food and the environment.
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European commissioners had correctly identified food security and climate change as two key challenges facing agriculture, she said, but regretted that the current proposals did not address "this great challenge".
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