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INDONESIA SUGAR
BY MARK ROWE
THE INDONESIAN government has vowed to protect its beleaguered sugar industry and regulate imports in an effort to increase national production levels. A rate subsidy is to be issued through the Food Security Credit Scheme for People’s Sugarcane worth Rupiah900 billion (US$106 million) and fertilizer subsidies worth Rupiah1.3 trillion (US$140 million).…
COUNTERFEITING OF GOODS
BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have agreed to a significant strengthening of EU regulations covering the counterfeiting of goods, a key move for many small businesses, given that insurance against losses caused by their receiving fake goods is hard to obtain, even though the cost of resulting seizures or losses in value may be significant.…
EU - ISRAEL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ISRAEL and the European Commission have struck a food trade deal, where the Israelis have agreed to widen import quotas for meat, bovine animals and animal feed, reducing existing preferential duties to zero. The EU will liberalise its trade regime for Israeli exports of turkey and turkey preparations, assuming the deal is approved by Europe’s Council of Ministers.…
NUT HEALTH
BY PHILIP FINE
HEALTH claims about nuts can now be made following the release of a study finding that the regular consumption of nuts could reduce the risk of heart disease. The US Food and Drug Administration says that research has discovered a 47 per cent lower risk of sudden cardiac death for men who ate nuts at least twice a week compared to those who rarely or never consumed nuts.…
E COLI POWER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN researchers have developed a method of harnessing electricity from bio-chemical reactions generated by the food poisoning bacteria E coli eating sugar. Scientists from Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald claim that they are able to generate ten times as much electricity using microbial fuel cells using E coli than with previous designs, because of a newly designed anode and the voraciousness of the bacteria.…
POTATO SORTER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EU funded project has developed a new potato sorting system which inflicts less damage on the vegetable than traditional systems. The DECOP project meet demand from the potato processing industry and the food retail sector. Sensors recognise individual potato varieties, fixing flow rates and filtering.…
EXTRACTION SOLVENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission lawyers are codifying and simplifying complex EU legislation on the use of extraction solvents in food production.…
E COLI POWER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN researchers have developed a method of harnessing electricity from bio-chemical reactions generated by the food poisoning bacteria E coli eating sugar. Scientists from Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald claim that they are able to generate ten times as much electricity using microbial fuel cells using E coli than with previous designs, because of a newly designed anode and the voraciousness of the bacteria.…
ANIMAL FOOD HYGEINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL agreement has been secured at the EU Council of Ministers over the proposed EU regulation boosting health controls on fresh meat, live bivalve molluscs, and milk and milk products.…
CORN PEST CONTROL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation experts will help central and eastern Europe to control ‘western corn rootworm’, a threat to corn production. This US$2.26 million project involves Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovakia.…