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NUTS AFLATOXIN CONTAMINATION EU CONSUMER ALERT WARNING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rapid consumer alert service RASFF has warned of a spate of aflatoxin contamination in peanuts, groundnuts and hazelnuts from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Brazil and China, and in Turkish dried figs.
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BRAZIL WHITE SPOT
KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has confirmed that white spot disease has been detected for the first time in Brazil, infecting Pacific white shrimp. The announcement follows investigations by the Brazilian agriculture ministry’s Department of Animal Protection into three outbreaks amongst fish farms in Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil.…
CHINA WATER ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS - POLLUTION REDUCTION - DRINKS MANUFACTURERS
BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong
IT is not just a rumour anymore: China is officially upgrading its water quality, a move welcome to drinks manufacturers that rely on and control costs through guaranteed clean water supplies. China launched new drinking water standards in June, raising the number of forbidden water pollutants from 35 to 101.…
EU SUGAR REFORM MARKET REPORT - CAP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain. Unlike the previous big WTO meeting, in Cancun, Mexico, trade ministers did not leave in rancour having achieved little.…
COUNTERFEITED GOODS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has identified three priority countries as sources of counterfeit cigarette and other tobacco goods as the focus of special diplomatic efforts to pressure their governments to deal with the problem. China, the Ukraine and Brazil will receive encouragement and advice from Brussels on fighting counterfeiting.…
KYOTO - BRAZIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CLEAN Development Mechanism (CDM), of the Kyoto Protocol has approved its first emissions trading project: the NovaGerar, landfill gas to energy project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Netherlands CDM Facility will buy 2.5 million tons of its CO2 emissions savings at Euro 3.35 a ton.…
BYRD AMENDMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has been authorised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose retaliatory duties on US knitted products for failing to scrap its Byrd Amendment law allowing payments of anti-dumping and countervailing duties to American companies making complaints sparking such tariffs.…
BYRD AMENDMENT
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has been authorised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose retaliatory duties on US textile products for failing to scrap its Byrd Amendment law allowing payments of anti-dumping and countervailing duties to American companies making complaints sparking such tariffs.…
EASTERN EUROPE FEATURETTE
BY MARK ROWE
CHOCOLATE sells in eastern Europe. One of the curiosities of the old Soviet Empire was that, even in the darkest days of rule by Stalin and Brezhnev, the USSR imported vast amounts of cocoa, simply because the Kremlin thought it was good for the masses.…
KYOTO - BRAZIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CLEAN Development Mechanism (CDM), of the Kyoto Protocol has approved its first emissions trading project: the NovaGerar, landfill gas to energy project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Netherlands CDM Facility will buy 2.5 million tons of its CO2 emissions savings at Euro 3.35 a ton, totalling Euro 8.4 million.…