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JAPAN FINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Ajinomoto Co. Inc. of Japan and South Korean companies Cheil Jedang Corp. and Daesang Corp respectively Euro 15.54 million, Euro 2.74 million and Euro 2.28 million each for participating in a price-fixing cartel in the flavour enhancer nucleotides.…
PAYPHONES - US
BY PHILIP FINE
PAY telephones are proving to be unprofitable for US companies and are being removed at a dramatic rate from the country’s malls, restaurants and street corners. The number has dwindled from a high of 2.7 million in the mid-1990s to about 1.9 million, today, according to the American Public Communications Council.…
BREAST CANCER
BY PHILIP FINE
CONCERNS about a possible link between breast cancer and meat consumption are unfounded, according to a recent large-scale American study. The Nurses’ Health Study followed 88,647 women for 18 years. Investigators found no evidence that a diet high in animal protein was associated with risk of breast cancer.…
CHEMICAL RESIDUES
BY PHILIP FINE
THE UNITED States Food Safety and Inspection Service has begun posting the names and addresses of US companies that have more than twice sold livestock or poultry that had unallowable levels of chemical residues. Producers are placed on an alert list for one year.…
CHICKEN VACCINATOR
BY PHILIP FINE
MISSISSIPPI State University, the USA, has developed a quicker and quieter chicken vaccinator. Initial results show the mist-spraying vaccinator to be a great improvement from the current machines that are as loud as leaf blowers. It can vaccinate roughly 75,000 chickens in a little over seven minutes, using two people, compared to five people taking 45 minutes on
conventional machines.…
FDA GENERIC RULING
BY PHILIP FINE
A US federal judge has ruled that an approval letter with a delayed effective
date given by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be considered merely a tentative approval and does not give a manufacturer the legal right to begin
marketing a medicine.…
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB
BY PHILIP FINE
BRISTOL-MYERS Squibb has agreed to pay US$670 million (Pounds 408 million) to settle numerous lawsuits after it was accused of using illegal tactics to keep lower-priced versions of its medicines, cancer-fighting Taxol and the anti-anxiety drug BuSpar, out of the market for many months.…
FISH FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg
Introduction
Europe
Cuts to EU catch quotas
New sources of fish
Affect on fish producers
Wild alternatives to cod
Farmed cod
North America
USA – Healthier local stocks
USA – Demand up
USA – Fish imports
Canada – Farmed fish exports
Canada – GM issues
Australasia
Australia – New wild sources
Australia – Aquaculture
Australia – Wild fish innovation
Australia and New Zealand – sustainability
South Africa – Export increase and conservation
Japan – Local and regional supply
Japan – Maintaining quality
Japan – Non-Asian sources
Introduction
ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…
FISHY ICE POPS
BY PHILIP FINE
A TEAM of inventors for American ice-cream maker, Good Humor-Breyers, have won a patent for using proteins from fish that thrive in freezing seas to improve water ices, sorbet, granitas and frozen fruit purées. One of the drawbacks of many ice treats is that most of the colour and flavour can be sucked away in the first few tastes, leaving plain ice behind.…
BREAST CANCER
BY PHILIP FINE
CONTRARY to popular belief, a recent American study found no positive association between risk of breast cancer and meat consumption. The Nurses’ Health Study followed 88,647 women for 18 years. Investigators found no evidence that a diet high in animal protein was associated with risk of breast cancer.…