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HK PORK
BY MARK ROWE
HONG Kong’s pork industry has been struck by a cut-throat price war. The row was sparked after two major supermarkets slashed their prices by 30 per cent, prompting retailers to blockade a slaughterhouse accused of offering preferential prices to supermarkets.…
US FARM BILL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Farm Bill, which has passed through the US Congress, will not only potentially depress meat prices by boosting subsidies to American farmers, but also introduce mandatory rules of origin for meat products for the first time.…
WTO ROUND CONFERENCE
BY MARK ROWE
IT may have taken riots in Seattle and Genoa but the World Trade Organisation has finally come out all compassionate. The theory is simple. Most of the world’s poor are in developing nations. Many of those in greatest poverty are farmers.…
US FARM BILL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOR years, the US government has played Mary Poppins on agricultural subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low. Now it is not really trying to pretend.
The mask has not just slipped, it has been casually pulled off and tossed aside.…
BEEF
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening a low 20 per cent tariff import quota of 10,000 tonnes of high quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef, from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, to help exporting countries, such as Argentina, fight pressing economic problems.…
GM CONSUMERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY carried out by France’s Grenoble University shows that European consumers are unlikely to be concerned enough about potential health risks to avoid buying clearly labelled GM foods.…
FAO/WHO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
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 fried and baked food, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…
INDIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA is streamlining its export procedures to make it easier for food traders to sell their products abroad, such as an uniform commodity classification.…
OLIVE OIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has blocked Italy from paying credits to its olive and olive oil sector, saying that it would be illegal state aid.…
NO CRUST BREAD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SARA Lee Corporation, of the US, has introduced de-crusted bread at a food show in Chicago, with hopes to have it on supermarket shelves by July. The time-saving crustless bread will be priced at 75 cents to US$1 more than regular bread.…