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BOTOX ADS
BY PHILIP FINE
US Botox adverts may soon be halted as the US Food and Drug Administration has told Allergan, maker of the wrinkle-deadening injection, to cease distribution of television advertisements and patient brochures. The FDA says that Allergan’s information on how long the injections last and which wrinkles were approved for injection by the FDA last April were misleading.…
CHINA - FISH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to lift a ban on another two Chinese food imports, which was imposed over concerns about the misuse of anti-biotics. The EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved the health of Chinese crayfish and surimi.…
DRINKS SOFTWARE
BY DEIRDRE MASON
MOST businesses install computer software because it makes their operation more efficient and so helps them to keep abreast of, or outdo, the competition. However, the growth in national and international regulations affecting the drinks industry has opened up a lucrative business opportunity for companies producing industry-specific computer software.…
EU ADDITIVES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the authorisation of a new food additive, hydrogenated poly-1-decene, which Brussels wants cleared for use as a glazing agent in confectionery and dried fruit. The idea is to provide manufacturers with an alternative to the banned white mineral oil other than vegetable oil-based products, which suffer from rancidity and stickiness.…
CANNED AIR
BY MARK ROWE
A SOUTH Korean firm has begun selling canned “clean air,” tapping into mounting environmental concerns about industrial and car pollution in the capital Seoul and other major cities. Officials at CJ Corp said that it was the first company to market natural air, as opposed to processed oxygen or perfumed air in South Korea.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation has inaugurated new training facilities for developing country trade officials, a result of the Doha summit that led to the current so-called development trade round. There, governments agreed that officials from poorer countries needed assistance in grappling with complicated trade law talks, so they could play a full part in negotiations.…
CHICAGO SOYBEAN CASE
BY PHILIP FINE
THE CHICAGO Board of Trade is being sued in the US District Court in Chicago for a 1989 decision that forced the owners of large amounts of soybean futures contracts to sell their positions. Farmer Harvey Joe Sanner is alleging that the Board knew its order would cause prices to drop, thereby benefiting the trading firm of one of its directors.…
CLONED ANIMALS
BY PHILIP FINE
THIS past year, a senior American scientific panel studied the idea of consumers
eating food derived from cloned animals and they came up with an answer. At the end of the summer, they said they could find nothing unsafe about it.…
SAUDI FISH FARMING
KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation has welcomed the development of a privately funded fish farming sector in Saudi Arabia, following 20 years of research to identify the ideal fish for local aquaculture.
A note published by the FAO says that the Saudi Fish Company, at Al-Shaqiq near the southern Red Sea, is already producing 1,500 tonnes of fish-a-year; the National Shrimp Company, in the Al-Laith area, also on the Red Sea, is expecting to produce 10,000 tonnes annually soon; and the Gizan Agricultural Company is building farming facilities for 1,000 tonnes-a-year.…
ORGANICS FEATURE
BY PHILIP FINE
HEINZ did something this year that its rival large USA-based food producers seem to be shying away from. They put their own name on an organic product.
One would think other US companies would have, by now, employed the same strategy as Heinz: use organic-friendly Europe as a test-market for an eventual US launch of an organic product, but the idea seems to be slow in catching on.…