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ICE CREAM
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A NEW ice cream launch is to be made in Sri Lanka by the country’s largest supermarket chain Cargills, which has brought the island rights to the Walls range off Unilever. The company will not divulge the name of the new brand, but it will not be called Walls.…
BRITISH SUGAR ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HIGH Court bid by British Sugar to recoup UK Pounds 6.6 million production levies, demanded by the UK’s Intervention Board, could have been damaged by the European Court of Justice. Its judges have ruled that the board had the authority to refuse paying export subsidies to British Sugar on 16,600 tonnes of sugar exported under a special ‘c’ quota.…
LITHUANIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LITHUANIA has imposed safeguard duties on imports of non-dried pastry yeast. Special tariffs of 22 per cent will be imposed from March to December, and 16 per cent from next January to December. Lithuania has been particularly concerned about increased imports from Germany, France, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Turkey, Italy and the Czech Republic.…
CZECH REPUBLIC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic has launched an investigation which may lead it to impose safeguard duties on citric acid imports, which Prague claims rose by 18.72 per cent in 2001, threatening domestic producers, who shed 11 per cent of their workers last year.…
COCONUT RESIDUE
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE PHILIPPINE Coconut Authority has developed ways of making coconut flour and oil from coconut milk, nut and jam processing residue. Until now, it has usually been fed to animals; now the authority claims it can make 260 kg of coconut flour and 170 kg of quality oil from a tonne of wet residue.…
SRI LANKA
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A JAM factory will be opened by the Chunnakam Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society near Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, the first food plant launched in this contested region since government forces regained control from the Tamil Tigers in 1996; the combatants are now negotiating a peace deal.…
FOOD SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD safety and quality need to be improved in all European countries because of the increase in food-borne diseases in the past decade, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have said.…
CARTEGENA PROTOCOL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that the international Cartegena protocol on the safe transfer, handling and use of genetically modified organisms is incorporated into EU law. Its suggested regulation would oblige exporters to notify authorities about GM consignments, which would have to be labelled.…
BEEF QUOTAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RETURN of demand amongst consumers in the European Union for high quality beef following the decline of BSE has made the European Commission propose that the EU opens a special 1,000 tonne import quota for high quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef, with a low 20 per cent duty rate.…
HORMONE TESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REQUIREMENT that 20 per cent of fresh beef meat and offal imported into the European Union from the USA should be tested for the presence of banned hormones is to be lifted, after EU vets approved a proposal from the European Commission.…