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Regulators in the European Union are trying to change the E.U.'s zero-tolerance policy. The region plans to adopt a common standard that would specify testing methods and establish thresholds for all food-related allergens. For instance, when it comes to gluten, the general consensus is that any concentration below 20 parts per million is too small to have a harmful effect, so new regulations would not require manufacturers to label foods that contain less than that cutoff...
...zone's GDP, can have such an outsized impact. The ultimate fear is that Greece will default, dragging down the euro with it. "A lot of the euro's problems today are rooted in those members having failed to integrate enough," says Bob Hancké, a professor of European political economy at the London School of Economics. "I'm one of those people who can imagine there being no euro - or at least not one similar to what we know today - within three years." That may be an extreme view, but the severity of the problems is forcing a significant...
...That help has a price. European ministers are insisting that Greece implement a severe austerity plan to quickly reduce its fiscal deficit. Papandreou has already promised pay cuts for public employees and tax hikes, but his European counterparts are demanding an even stricter program. That presents a huge test to his regime. Government workers have already staged strikes to protest Papandreou's plans. So far, he's held firm. A recent poll showed that two-thirds of Greeks believe the Prime Minister's measures are necessary; only 41% think they go far enough. "The government has seen the problem...
...BERTOFT, of the Swedish Consumer's Association, on the European Union's approval of the use of thrombin, a product that can glue pieces of meat together to make a single slab...
...Libya has not been the only one stoking the feud. On Feb. 14, Switzerland banned 188 Libyans including Col. Gaddafi himself, from entering its country. Libya immediately retaliated, freezing all visas of citizens belonging to the 25 European countries (including Switzerland) that belong to the continent's shared visa system, called Schengen. The dispute rose above personal issues into an affront against Islam in early February, when Swiss citizens voted in a national referendum to halt the construction of minarets...