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The market for packaged food with health claims is still small in Thailand, with the organics food sector being particularly tiny. But functional food sales growth rates have been picking up markedly on the back of an aging population translating into increasing awareness of health problems, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, obesity and diabetes.…

Dairy processors have expressed their concern regarding a 2.76% increase in the minimum price for butter and skimmed milk powder sold in Canada. Imposed by the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC), this came into effect on September 1. The Dairy Processors Association of Canada (DPAC) has voiced its apprehension to the CDC: “We expressed our concerns with a mid-year increase, and presented the potential impact of this not only for processors, but for the market and ultimately consumers,” said Jacques Lefebvre, president and CEO of the DPAC.…

Dairy processors have expressed their concern regarding a 2.76% increase in the minimum price for butter and skimmed milk powder sold in Canada. Imposed by the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC), this came into effect on September 1. The Dairy Processors Association of Canada (DPAC) has voiced its apprehension to the CDC: “We expressed our concerns with a mid-year increase, and presented the potential impact of this not only for processors, but for the market and ultimately consumers,” said Jacques Lefebvre, president and CEO of the DPAC.…

THE UK’s vote on June 23 to quit the European Union (EU) creates deep uncertainty over the shape of future electricity industry regulations in Britain, and the UK’s regulatory relationship regarding power supplies with countries remaining in the EU.

Victory by the ‘Leave’ side in Britain’s in-out referendum enables the UK government to kick off an exit process by invoking Article 50 in the Treaty on European Union, which gives notice that member state wishes to leave.…

THE CANADIAN government has welcomed a European Commission ruling that should see the European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), negotiated in 2014, finally on its way to ratification. Brussels has agreed, after months of legal arguments, that CETA is a ‘mixed’ agreement, including trade and non-trade regulatory aspects.…

The Canadian meat industry is optimistic that healthy sales will follow after it resumes exporting beef to Taiwan following its government lifting a beef import ban on Friday, July 8. Taiwan had imposed a temporary suspension of Canadian beef imports in February 2015, after a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) had been discovered in Alberta earlier that month.…

CANADA’S beef sector has warned that labour shortages in its industry are a problem and could get worse in the coming decade.

Brady Stadnicki, policy analyst at the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) was commenting to GlobalMeatNews after a Canadian government report highlighted a chronic workforce shortage in Canada’s food production sector.…

Regulators from Canada’s three main wine-producing provinces have agreed to remove technical restrictions preventing their winemakers from selling wine to consumers across all these jurisdictions. Until now, red tape has prevented all but the largest winemakers from Québec, Ontario and British Columbia (BC) selling their products to consumers outside their own province.…

Business governance experts in Canada have told Board Agenda how they think companies can maximise the ability and performance of their non-executive board members.

Their comments come as concern about the effectiveness of non-execs in Canada has been piqued by media reports that Pierre Beaudoin, a director of Montréal-based comms and finance conglomerate Power Corp, had 20.28% of shareholder votes withheld at a director election in May – usually such elections proffer 100% support.…

THE UK’s personal care and cosmetics industry faces uncertainty and potential future trade challenges with the European Union (EU) following the 52% to 48% June 23 referendum vote to leave the EU. “No longer being part of a single market for the free circulation of goods and no longer being a key player in the development of legislation governing those goods will be a major challenge to the cosmetics industry as it will be to all other sectors of the UK industry,” Chris Flower, director-general of the UK’s Cosmetic, Toiletry & Perfumery Association (CTPA), told Soap Perfumery and Cosmetics.…