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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada have been asked to lift Euro 120 million of extra tariffs levied against European Union (EU) exporters following the imposition of a hormone treated beef directive that the European Commission claims satisfies a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SUPERMARKET boom in sub-Saharan Africa is raising standards in food production and distribution, which many small producers struggle to meet, said the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It says the growth of mass retail in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland is having “a direct impact on the lives of millions of small farmers.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REFORM of the EU olive oil common market system has been proposed, converting 60 per cent of production-linked subsidies into single farm payment for most holdings. The remaining 40 per cent would remain attached to output. Export refunds and grants for the use of oil in certain preserved food would be repealed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved – in principle – three new regulations and a directive that are a key part of the EU’s farm-to-fork food hygiene programme. Of these, two focus on meat: a regulation laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin and a regulation on rules for official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ELECTRONIC business solutions and services are important to 47 per cent of larger European Union beverage companies (grouped with a sample of food and tobacco businesses), according to a European Commission report saying e-commerce is still growing in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ELECTRONIC business solutions and services are important to 47 per cent of larger European Union tobacco companies (grouped with a sample of drinks and food businesses), according to a European Commission report saying e-commerce is still growing in the EU.…

BY MARK ROWE
A GLASS of beer a day keeps old age at bay, apparently. A Japanese scientist has developed a beer that he claims makes you look younger by improving the texture and smoothness of your skin. While there was a passing craze in the 1970s for women to wash their hair in beer to give it more “body”, this brew, translated as “facial treatment beer”, is drunk, rather than applied.…

BY MARK ROWE
JAPANESE scientists have developed a beer that they claim acts as a facial treatment to keep you looking young at heart. The beer – which should be drunk rather than applied to the skin – has been produced by the Akita Research Institute of Food and Brewing.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
HINDUSTAN Lever has been trying to persuade Indian parents to buy Multiaction Surf, by offering the means to avoid washing their children’s clothes altogether – a foreign school scholarship. The slightly ironic promotional scheme ‘Colour Your Future’ asks children to enter a competition by painting a picture based on what they wants to achieve in adulthood; paintings have to be titled: “I want to be…” Hindustan Lever has been offering fixed deposits of between INDRupees 100,000 (US$2,173) and 500,000 (US$10,863) for zonal and national winners, respectively.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE ANIMAL rights group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has taken its battle against Kentucky Fried Chicken to India, demonstrating in Bangalore outside a branch of the fast food chain. One activist was dressed as a crippled chicken, to the bemusement of passers-by.…