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NATIVE OIL
BY MONICA DOBIE
NATIVE Canadians are reaping the healthiest rewards from oil exploitation on their ancestral lands since the boom years of the early 1980’s, with last year, CDN$296 million being collected by various tribes.
This flow of money is supervised by Indian Oil and Gas Canada, a regulatory body affiliated with the federal Ministry of Indian Affairs.…
CANADA DAIRY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WTO disputes panel, formed for the US and New Zealand, has ruled that Canada has failed to comply with an earlier ruling ordering it to reform its collective dairy marketing systems, so that its exporters do not benefit from unfair national subsidies on world markets.…
BEN & JERRY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BEN & Jerry’s has been accused of falsely claiming that some of their ice cream and frozen yoghurt products labelled “All Natural” are not so because they contain hydrogenated oils and alkalised cocoa powder. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a US health and food safety advocacy group, wants the Food and Drug Administration to take action.…
COCOA DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the EU Council of Ministers to formally ratify the new International Cocoa Agreement 2001.…
HYGIENE LAWS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed tougher EU rules for health controls on meat, dairy products and live bivalve molluscs, including science-based approaches to meat inspection and a continuous flow of information between farms and slaughterhouses. There would be monitoring programme of mollusc harvesting areas and bans on consumption of milk or is products where health standards have been broken.…
CEREAL DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ERECTION of EU temporary protective duties on cereals from Russia and the Ukraine is being considered by the European Commission. A production boom is lowering prices on world markets, threatening the financial health of EU producers.…
FRENCH LANGUAGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission because of its failure to scrap a law insisting that labels on foodstuffs imported into France must be written in the French language. Brussels says this breaks EU free trade rules.…
OLIVE OIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has set detailed rules for work programmes of olive oil producer organisations receiving aid under its reformed EU olive subsidy regime.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIAL WTO rules of origin committee has recommended global regulations stating whether food manufacturing processes are important enough for the processed ingredient or product to be legally a new product, made in the manufacturing country, not where its raw materials were sourced.…
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW Zealand and Australian scientists are improving temperature control systems on container ships to prevent produce over-ripening during transportation. Temperature can fluctuate on-board by 7C. They are focusing on the kiwifruit shipments from New Zealand to Europe. *Contact: Dr David Tanner 00 61 2 9490 8507…