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ALMONDS POISONING
BY MONICA DOBIE
A SALMONELLA outbreak involving almonds in California, USA, that sickened at least 25 people, resulted in the Food and Drug Administration recalling 13 million pounds of the nuts, produced by the Paramount Farms company, located in the state’s Central Valley.…
EUSUGAR REFORM
BY ALAN OSBORN
SWEEPING reforms of the European Union’s (EU) sugar regime proposed earlier this month (July) by the European Commission appear to be good news for the confectionery and other big sugar-using industries – but representatives have warned of rearguard action by producers.…
US SUGAR QUOTAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DOMINICAN Republic heads the list of countries granted low rate tariff quotas by the USA for sugar and sugar-containing product imports made in 2004-5. It has been allocated a 185,335 tonne quota, followed by Brazil with 152,691 tonnes and Philippines, 142,160.…
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SERBIA & Montenegro can resume shipping sugar to the EU at zero-rated tariffs, after establishing certification procedures preventing origin fraud that sparked the suspension of this trade privilege.…
DATE PALM CONCERN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has launched a Global Date Palm Network to promote research and exchange of information on production and resources. The FAO says trade restrictions, pests and lack of know-how are causing low date palm yields.…
NUTS TRADEMARK CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPAIN’S Grupo El Prado Cervera has lost a trademark battle opposing the registration of CHUFAFIT for processed and fresh nuts. It failed to persuade the European Court of Justice this undermined its CHUFI brand.…
EBRD ROMANIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 135 million to two Romanian wood-processing companies, to prepare them for acquisition by Kronospan Holdings Limited, Europe’s leading wood panel producer. The loan will help financially restructure MDF Sebes, a medium-density fibreboard and resin plant, and Sepal, a particle-board plant.…
COW GUT GLUE
BY MONICA DOBIE
BACTERIA in the digestive tracts of cows and other herbivores, that help break down the tough fibre in their diets, could be used as the base for a biological wood glue. Scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the United States have discovered that the microbes secrete a sticky outer coating that allows them to cling to a surface, similar to how cavity-causing bacteria adhere to teeth.…
PROZAC CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENERIC manufacturers can rely on existing data for medicines they are copying to expedite marketing approvals, even if in a different form, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended. Francis Jacobs advised judges to allow Britain’s Approved Prescription Services Ltd to use Prozac capsule data under medicinal products directive 2001/83/EC, even though its generic fluoxetine liquid mimicked Prozac liquid, whose market authorisation had been secured for less than the 10 years required for its data to be used in generic applications.…
DEPRESSION PROJECT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEWLY launched European Union (EU)-funded research project will uncover genetic factors linked to depression, helping to develop new drug treatments over the next five years. The NEWMOOD project has received Euro 7.2 million in EU funding. It will help researchers “revolutionise antidepressant drugs, which have not changed much over the past 30 years,” claimed the European Commission.…