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BY KEITH NUTHALL
SINGAPORE is seeking to develop its processed and ready-to-eat food sectors’ export performance in an attempt to offset problems in its high tech electronic and technology sectors.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE EUROPEAN Union is reassessing its so-far negative position on individual sheep tagging, says the Irish Farmers’ Association. Brussels has maintained that individual tagging is not practical, but association sheep committee chairman, Laurence Fallon claims that the Commission is having a “major reassessment” of its position.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
RESEARCHERS in Ireland have developed a system that allows farmers to remotely monitor the temperature of cattle using a mobile phone. The Grange Research Centre, part of the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc), have recently completed tests using an electronic bolus (a kind of pill) placed in the cow’s rumen, (one of its stomachs).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is considering lending Pounds 25 million to British food processor Princes Ltd to improve its production, while maintaining or improving its health, safety and environmental standards.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE of Britain’s best-known food safety experts, Deirdre Hutton, has been appointed to the board of the newly formed European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Ms Hutton, who is chairman of the National Consumer Council, led a recent DTI panel on the Food Chain and Crops for Industry and was a member of the government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (the Curry report).…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that the drying of fish, fish livers, roes and fish fillets should legally be considered a product of the country where fish is processed, not where it was caught.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MONICA DOBIE AND PHILIP FINE

IF there is one striking characteristic about Washington’s Bush Administration, it must be its almost unprecedented ability to infuriate the entire world with its unilateralism, especially its self-serving trade policies.

For years, the US government has actually played Mary Poppins on food production subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A RELAXATION of European Union rules governing British slaughterhouses and processing plants has been agreed by the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health and will enter into force after formal adoption by the European Commission.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
FAST-FOOD giant Kentucky Fried Chicken will next month (August) open the country’s first drive-through KFC, in Beijing, targeting the capital’s booming daily traffic, now 1.8 million vehicles. “China-KFC can’t miss the chance in advance while the number of private car owners continues to grow in major Chinese cities,” said a spokesperson for KFC’s local partner, Yum Restaurants.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Senate has introduced legislation to reduce obesity, particularly among American children and adolescents. If passed, the US$215 million Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act would take on the ‘significant problems associated with obesity,’ mostly by funding measures to encourage better nutrition and more physical activity; this includes federal funding for research and information campaigns.…