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LOW CARB DIETS
BY MONICA DOBIE
LOW carb diets result in more weight loss following six months of such a regime than low fat diets, but both regimes see similar levels of weight loss after a year according to two studies published in USA’s Annals of Internal Medicine.…
BIRD FLU - USA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has announced that outbreaks of bird flu amongst USA chicken flocks in Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey have been completely eradicated. A low pathogenic strain of avian influenza had been detected in one non-commercial and one commercial flock in Delaware, one commercial flock in Maryland and two live-bird markets in New Jersey.…
RAPID ALERT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s rapid alert system of food health scare notifications has warned of salmonella contamination in meat from four EU countries: boneless pork collar from Denmark, pigmeat and chicken from the Netherlands, and frozen chicken fillet from Poland.…
CODEX - FEED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards body Codex Alimentarius has called for comments on a draft global definition of feed additives in its code of good practice on animal feeding. Comments are required from member governments by June 18. The standards have been drawn up by Codex’s intergovernmental task force on animal feeding.…
EU-RUSSIA DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WIDE-RANGING trade deal between Russia and the European Union (EU) has involved Moscow promising to maintain fixed tariff rate import quotas for fresh and frozen meat and poultry representing around Euro 600 million in sales annually – (15 per cent of the EU’s food exports to the country).…
EFSA TRANSPORT ADVICE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DRIVERS handling livestock cargoes should receive special training and decent pay to ensure they are willing and able to avoid causing animals distress, a report on live transports by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has advised. The agency said: “Some very poor welfare in transported animals is caused by bad treatment of animals during loading or unloading, by bad driving or due to inadequate inspection.…
CANADA BEEF PACKERS
BY MONICA DOBIE
TWO major Canadian meat-packing firms have been threatened with daily CDN $250,000 fines if they miss a May 20 deadline for producing financial details demanded by Canada’s House of Commons, investigating the how CDN$1.6 billion of aid during the recent BSE crisis was used.…
TEXAS INQUIRY CALL
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN consumer groups are calling for a Congressional investigation into the death of a cow with symptoms of brain damage at a Texas slaughterhouse, whose body was sent to a rendering plant for animal food and by-products manufacture, without being tested for BSE.…
CANADA BIRD FLU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has reported the difficulties Canada has had in fighting its British Columbia bird flu outbreak. The OIE said by May 3, 1.2 million birds had been destroyed in 40 firms in a controlled zone.…
BIRD FLU UPDATE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REPORTS of fresh bird flu outbreaks are still being reported to the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) by the Indonesian and Vietnamese governments. The most recent cases in Indonesia involved 6,610 chickens being killed in Yogyakarta and Lampung provinces; 200 died in Dông Tháp, Vietnam.…