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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGRICULTURAL economists may disagree, but predicting trends in world food markets is not necessarily rocket science. A dose of healthy common sense can be as good a guide for the future demand for commodities as any amount of slide rules and complex economic equations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the European Commission have agreed to create a “closer strategic partnership” regarding development and humanitarian aid.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FAST-FOOD giant, McDonald’s, will prohibit direct suppliers from using 24 growth promoters that are closely related to antibiotics used in human medicine. The use of antibiotics in animal feed has been making many of them less effective to humans, say scientists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EASILY understood guidelines have been produced by the European Commission’s Food and Veterinary Office to help meat and livestock importers understand often complex EU food safety rules. They spell out inspections required by EU officials, with a focus on clearly explaining the steps developing country exporters must take.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALTHOUGH an investigation by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency did not discover another case of BSE, following the lone outbreak that has devastated Canada’s beef exports, further instances may well follow, a member of the International Committee on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards organisation Codex Alimentarius has set new guidelines for food irradiation, accepting higher levels that it previously recommended to eliminate bacteria. It also approved general principles on the analysis and management of risks related to biotechnological foods, including pre-market safety evaluations, product tracing for recalls and post-market monitoring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and the European Union have traded barbs over their respective policies regarding genetically modified food. During a US-EU summit in Washington, President George W Bush claimed European reticence over GM was preventing starving African countries from importing a valuable food resource.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FROM next January, US schools will have the option of purchasing irradiated meat for the country’s US Department of Agriculture administered National School Lunch Programme, which feeds 27 million American children each year, despite overwhelmingly negative public consultation results.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DANISH scientists have developed a robot reducing the herbicide needed to kill off weeds during crop production. Offering advantages to food processors concerned about herbicide residues and input costs, the robot drives across a field, scanning the ground for weeds and noting their position.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE LAWYER for the former president of US chemical company DuCoa LP is being bullish in his defence of his client, who is facing price-fixing charges over the American choline chloride market.

Department of Justice officials allege in an indictment that Daniel T.…