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TOOTH DECAY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOOTH decay, gum disease and other oral illnesses are still common the developed world, says the World Health Organisation, with 60 to 90 per cent of schoolchildren and the “vast majority” of adults affected.…
FISCHLER PROMISE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has promised that the European Commission will propose its long-awaited reforms of the EU sugar market by this autumn. The current system suffers from low competition, high prices, quota rigidities and no market orientation, he said.…
LDC SUGAR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of least developed countries have called on the European Union to increase by 20 times within 10 years the amount of sugar it imports duty-free. Sudan, Mozambique, Bangladesh and Nepal want duty-free quotas raised to more than 1.6 million tonnes by 2012/13.…
AUSTRIAN MARMALADE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed changes to a EU directive insisting “marmalade” is made from only citrus fruits, allowing Austrian jam makers to continue their traditional use of the term for non-citrus preserves.…
MOROCCO - USA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA and Morocco have struck a free trade deal that will swiftly remove all Moroccan import duties on American pistachios and pecans, and within five years, on walnuts and cherries. The US will phase out tariffs on all Moroccan food exports, mostly within 15 years.…
AUSTRALIA - USA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN food processors are opposing the new Australia-USA free trade deal because it excludes sugar, preventing them securing it more cheaply from Australian cane growers. Commenting during ratification debates, the US government technical advisory committee for trade in processed foods said sugar’s exclusion “lacks economic justification and raises questions about the equity of the agreement.”…
INDIA SUGAR
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN government has released an additional quota for its domestic market, allowing 150,000 tonnes more sugar to be sold. Commentators have raised concerns that the move may weaken sugar prices.…
PALM OIL - MALAYSIA
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
MALAYSIAN palm oil production is expected to reach a record high of 13.4 million tonnes in 2003-04 (from October-September), US officials have predicted, up from 13.2 million tonnes last year.…
EUROPLASTICS - PLASTIC-COAL PROJECT
BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN researchers are experimenting with co-firing plastic waste with coal in the blast furnace iron-making process. If the trials are successful this technique will – said the Australian government – provide a way to dispose of large volumes of plastic waste, whilst benefiting the environment.…
EU TIMBER RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded research project is developing an integrated sales, production and storage system for small-and-medium sized timber businesses, which have difficulty serving a number of niche markets simultaneously. The IN-TIME project involves eight companies covering the whole timber supply chain, coordinated by UK software design house MJC2.…