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AGRICULTURAL TALKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEED the world. Bob Geldof. Don’t they know it’s Christmas time? Food aid: it is supposed to be simple. Poor countries have hungry people. Rich countries have fat people. The developed world sends food to the developing world.…
SUGAR TALKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has authorised the European Commission to negotiate guaranteed prices for sugar suppliers from India and the so called ACP (African Caribbean Pacific) group of countries, which has special trade relations with the EU.…
PERFETTI INDIA
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
PERFETTI India Pvt Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Italian confectionery major Perfetti Sp.A, is about to launch Alpenliebe Cream Strawberry, a milk chocolate variant of its flagship brand, Alpenliebe.…
SUGAR SCAM
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SUGAR buyers are being stung by fraudsters offering consignments of non-existent sugar via the Internet, the International Chamber of Commerce has warned. Its Commercial Crime Services department says some websites use “supermarket sales tactics” to advertise cargoes of sugar that never arrive, leaving unwary buyers who pay advances out of pocket.…
SENILE COCONUTS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE Coconut Cultivation Board of Sri Lanka is complaining that 18.5 per cent of the island’s nut bearing palms have grown “senile,” being past their productive peak at 60 years plus. The board wants to replenish stocks with younger trees.…
FAO/WHO
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE WORLD Health Organisation will hold an “expert consultation” after the Swedish National Food Administration claimed accumulations of the toxin acrylamide have been found in baked and fried food, including biscuits and cookies, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…
CARGILLS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
CARGILLS Quality Dairies Ltd is launching the ‘Cargills Magic’ ice-cream brand in Sri Lanka, the first based on Cargills’ takeover of the island’s Walls factory.”…
OECD REPORT
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE PRODUCTION of confectionary ingredients sugar and milk is more subsidised in rich developed countries than almost any other foodstuff, says a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It says that handouts accounted in 2001 for more than half of farm receipts for these commodities amongst its member countries, which include the EU, the US, Norway and Canada.…
CZECH COCOA
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE CZECH Republic has warned it may impose temporary safeguard duties on cocoa powder imports, which it claims have boomed following its imposition last year of protective duties on sugar substitutes. Current cocoa powder imports are 174.93 times higher than average, claims Prague.…
NICOTINE SWEETS
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration has told three online pharmacies – Ashland Drugs, Mississippi, Bird’s Hill Pharmacy, Massachusetts, and the Compounding Pharmacy, Illinois – to stop selling nicotine impregnated lollipops via the Internet. The FDA said it acted because the nicotine sweets are dispensed without a doctor’s prescription, contain a non-approved form of nicotine called salicylate, and because the products could be accidentally used by children.…