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MALAYSIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALAYSIA is to promote itself as a hub for Muslim food by establishing a halal food conglomerate with companies from China and the Middle East. It is eyeing the lucrative market of 50 million Muslims in China.…
ANTIBIOTICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to abandon special testing of certain fish products from China, and shrimp from Vietnam and Pakistan because it no longer considers there is a serious risk of exports being contaminated with banned antibiotics. However, checks are being introduced for Ukrainean milk powder and Brazilian poultry.…
FISH FARMING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST EU comprehensive strategy to promote aquaculture has been proposed by the European Commission. It wants state aid focused on strengthening existing businesses, training, monitoring, R&D and clean farming. Brussels will create codes of conduct, better residue monitoring, fish welfare guidelines, regulations on non-indigenous aquatic species and maybe on transgenic fish.…
CEREOL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of France-based speciality foods and oilseed processing company Cereol by agribusiness US firm Bunge.…
SHEEP BSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union scientists have concluded that sheep have not developed a special form of BSE, distinct from scrapie. Brussels’ scientific steering committee has ruled that sheepmeat is BSE free and so “sheep casings should not be included in the list of specified risk materials in relation to BSE.”…
STANDARDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank and the World Trade Organisation have established a new international fund – the Standards and Trade Development Facility – which will help developing countries implement the strict and complex standards that are erected for the food trade by bodies such as Codex Alimentarius.…
SEX TESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’s Joint Research Centre has developed post-slaughter tests for the gender of beef meat. With male meat supposedly of a higher quality exports, imports carry a subsidy difference of Euro 130/kg depending on sex, making accurate designation crucial for producers and processors.…
KONJAC BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers are expected to permanently ban the use of the additive konjac in jelly mini-cups and similar jelly confectionary, because consumers have choked to their deaths on the sweets. Konjac prevents the jelly dissolving and so was subject to a temporary ban this April.…
HERSHEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HERSHEY Foods Corp faces a hurdle in its desire to sells its 108-year-old facilities. The Pennsylvania attorney formally requested that any buyer first obtain court approval. It warned that selling the company could lead to severe harm to the community.…
ORGANIC CASHEW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIAN researchers have developed techniques for organic cashew nut production. Scientists at the Kerala Agriculture University have identified high density planting systems using natural oil insect repellants.…