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GM MAIZE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has concluded that a genetically modified herbicide resistant NK603 maize developed by Monsanto is safe to eat and grow. Moves to break the EU’s defacto ban on new GM authorisations are still stalled however.…
MONSANTO CORN
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Food and Drug Administration has approved a groundbreaking variety of genetically modified corn; YieldGard Plus, the first GM crop with the ability to control two different insect groups. Developed by biotech giant Monsanto, it enables the crop to protect itself from both leaf and stalk damage caused by insects such as the European corn borer (a moth), and from root damage caused by the corn rootworm (a beetle).…
FOOD RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released the details of the projects financed by the first Euro 166 million released for food studies under the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. They include a study on hazardous compounds in heat-treated carbohydrate-rich foods, such as acrylamide.…
FOOD RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released the details of the projects financed by the first Euro 166 million released for food studies under the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. They include a study on hazardous compounds in heat-treated carbohydrate-rich foods, such as acrylamide.…
STEEL DUTIES - USA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) retail goods importers are girding themselves for the imposition of heavy duties on a range of United States food and clothing exports, after the World Trade Organisation authorised EU retaliation to American protection of its steel industry, erected in breach of global trade laws.…
CANCER HOT DOGS
BY PHILIP FINE
A STUDY has established a possible link between hot dogs and colon cancer. University of Nebraska, USA, food researcher Dr Sidney Mirvish found increased levels of nitrosamines, a suspected carcinogen, in the faeces of mice fed a diet of hot dogs.…
HOPS REFORM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLANNED reform of the European Union’s (EU) Euro 12.5 million-per-year hop subsidy regime could push hop producers towards promoting speciality varieties, of interest to brewers seeking an edge in flavour and bitterness, a National Hop Association of England spokesman has said.…
SIDEBAR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BIOCHEMICAL threat posed by algal blooms is the marine equivalent of a Victorian pea-souper London fog, only one that was a living organism, sucking oxygen from the air, killing thousands of people. Nitrogen and phosphates leaching into the sea from farms and industrial air pollution are ideal food for single-celled phytoplankton, or algae, which reproduce madly in the abundant sunshine of Europe’s increasingly warm summers.…
HALLOWEEN FOOD SALES
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICANS will spend a whopping US$2.38 billion worth on confectionary for tonight’s (Oct. 31) Halloween celebrations, according to the US National Retail Federation. Their Halloween Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey found the average Halloween celebrant expected to spend US$41.77.…
E COLI VACCINE - US/CANADA
BY PHILIP FINE
A US-Canada team trying to lower the incidences of E-Coli outbreaks and meat recalls through animal inoculation has reporting some positive results. University of Nebraska researchers claim there has been an average of 59 per cent reduction in E.…