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JELLY MINI CUPS
BY PHILIP FINE
NEW Choice Food, an American maker of the jelly mini cups associated with choking deaths of children, was recently ordered to destroy a half-million dollars US (£312,000) worth of conjac gel sweets under the supervision of the US Food and Drug
Administration.…
SANITARY - WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA and African countries have called for food health import controls allowed by WTO rules to be weakened regarding developing country exporters, claiming they are so tough and bureaucratic, they prevent them exporting healthy food.…
ANTI-BIOTIC WINE STUDY
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists are claiming they have proof that wine is an anti-biotic, strong enough to kill virulent bugs such as E.coli and salmonella. Researcher Mark Daeschel from Oregon State University has added that white wine may be more beneficial to health than red wine.…
AFGHANISTAN LIVESTOCK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation has launched a livestock census in Afghanistan, a key part of its plan to rehabilitate the country’s meat production sector. FAO officials will visit more than 30,000 villages and farming communities over the coming months to collate detailed information on animal numbers and livestock production practices.…
FUTURE FARMING THINK PIECE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the New Year is upon us, pessimists tend to herald the approach of apocalypse, gloomy tidings and battening down the hatches. And in a year that may see war in the Middle East, the naysayers may say more in 2003 than usual.…
GM FOOD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved in principle new proposed European regulations on the traceability and labelling of genetically modified food.…
WTO ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROBLEM for farmers when considering how to influence international negotiations that are as long, complicated and important as the scheduled five years of discussions over updating the World Trade Organisation’s agriculture agreement, is knowing when to spend money on lobbyists to intervene.…
VODKA RUSSIA
BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN government has re-launched production of its two most famous vodka brands, Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya, after they had been suspended for several months. The resumption of sales follows a long battle caused by the break up of the Soviet Union.…
LATINO FOOD - US
BY PHILIP FINE
US food investors have acquired a taste for Mexican food as small and medium-sized Californian latino-food producers are being increasingly targeted for purchase by mainstream American food firms. According to a specialist report in the Los Angeles Times, burrito-maker Don Miguel Foods, salsa-maker Chilay Foods and taquitos and quesadillas-maker Excelline Foods were all bought or heavily financed recently by bigger firms.…