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BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal

A CALF’S destiny has long been dictated by two agricultural businesses: beef or dairy.

But there’s now a third industry that requires animals for its growing appetite: the pharmaceuticals sector.

As the latest scientific headlines have shown, farmyard animals – cows, goats and pigs – are now being employed for purposes other than providing us with filet mignon, goat cheese and bacon.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on live bivalve molluscs as part of a new package of hygiene measures that are designed to step up food safety. The proposal identifies steps required by national competent health authorities to ensure the safety of these products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BEN & Jerry’s has been accused of falsely claiming that some of their ice cream and frozen yoghurt products labelled “All Natural” are not so because they contain hydrogenated oils and alkalised cocoa powder. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a US health and food safety advocacy group, wants the Food and Drug Administration to take action.…

BY PHILIP FINE

An American company that normally supplies its breeding services to

livestock producers has been developing a sideline serving the

pharmaceutical industry. Its leap into biotech could offer a

glimpse of how the meat and livestock trade might discover some future

crossover

business.…

By ALAN OSBORN
Farmers can’t complain that they lack information about long-term trends in agriculture. The European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the various United Nations food agencies, specialised agricultural research institutes and of course national governments all seem driven to make regular projections about crops, prices and markets several years into the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIAN microbiologist Michelle Bull is helping to pioneer the processing of orange juice at high pressure. Bull, from Food Science Australia, said the system means microbes such as yeast, bacteria and mould are “squeezed to death” extending the life of the product.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked Eurpopean Union ministers to authorise in the EU a new intense sweetener used in soft drinks called sucralose. The EU Scientific Committee on Food has approved its safety and set an Acceptable Daily Intake of 15 mg/kg of bodyweight.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union labelling rules have been set by the European Commission insisting that food and drink products sold in the EU containing caffeine or quinine must list these ingredients on their packaging. Labels would also have to declare any high caffeine content in products.…

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.…

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.…