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BY LEE ADENDOORF, ALYSSA MCMURTRY, MAKKI MARSEILLES, and KEITH NUTHALL

GLOBAL olive oil manufacturing is on a roll, with the International Olive Council (IOC) saying 2009-10 world production was 3.02 million tonnes, a season-on-season increase of 354,500 tonnes (+13%). This would be the second best olive oil production year ever, next only to the record of 3.17 million tonnes produced in 2003/04.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer protection information service RAPEX has reported market recalls in Germany of Indian hair dyes over breaches of the EU cosmetics directive. One involved henna hair dye ‘Afrin’s Supreme Red Henna’, for containing 1.9% of the oxidation hair dye 2-Nitro-p-phenylendiamine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Switzerland food manufacturer and retailer Coop has been given permission by the European Commission to assume full ownership of Germany-based food wholesaler transGourmet (NOTE – CORRECT SPELLING). Coop has shared control with German retailer REWE. transGourmet claims to be Europe’s second largest cash-and-carry and food service company – turning over Euro EUR5.8 billion in 2009, employing 21,000 staff.transGourmetwholesales…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Concerns the German dioxin crisis could force European pigmeat producers into losses have pushed the European Union (EU) into offering emergency storage subsidies. Handouts will vary by products being stored and the European Commission is offering storage options of 90, 120 or 150 days.…

BY JOSEPHINE MCKENNA, in Rome

ON the face of it the record is impressive. In the past 12 months Italian customs officials and other agents have carried out raids on counterfeiters from Milan in the north to Taranto in the south, seizing millions of euros’ worth fake fashion merchandise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DENMARK’S meat major Danish Crown has been given permission by the European Commission to purchase German pig meat slaughtering company D&S Fleisch. Danish Crown, itself a pig meat specialist, saw the deal approved without conditions via a fast track, being "examined under the simplified merger review procedure", said the Commission – the European Union’s senior competition authority.…

BY Karryn Miller

An innovative foreign higher education park scheme in South Korea is set to proceed, even though the worldwide recession has caused some overseas universities to postpone plans to locate branches at the Songdo Global University Campus.

Full report on University World News site.…

BY ANDY HOLDER

IT is a truism that fraudsters are most knowledgeable about fraud – and that to learn about the problem, the best people to learn from are those who actively obtain property through deception. But that is exactly what Britain’s Professor Martin Gill does.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SYSTEMIC advantages given to biofuels in the European Union (EU) through tax breaks and subsidies could take a knock this year, with the European Commission examining their indirect contribution to greenhouse gas production.

Brussels already takes account of their direct effect, through production and use emissions, and land use changes on fields used to grow feedstocks: only biofuels with a proven 35% emissions advantage over fossil fuels qualify for environment-linked tax breaks and handouts, under the EU’s renewable energy directive.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

WHEN manufacturers generally are feeling the squeeze, maximising the efficiency of packaging systems and their related costs can be an essential part of securing profits. That means increasing demands will be made of conveying, with companies on the look-out for new high-tech solutions.…