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BY WANG FANGQING

THE GLOBAL recession has forced China, whose economy relies largely on exports, to turn to boosting its domestic economy with a budget as huge as four trillion Chinese Yuan – RMB (US$ 585 billion) being unveiled last November by the central government.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

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Every country has its own food and drink regulatory body or bodies: in the first place to ensure that its citizens eat safely and in the second to help safeguard its position in the rapidly-growing world food trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that unusual new food products must be closely screened under the European Union’s (EU) novel food regulation, even if their ingredients have been proved safe. In a case assessing a health food product produced by Germany’s M-K Europa, the court said: "The fact that all the individual ingredients…have a safe history" is not "sufficient" for the novel food regulation to be waived.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE BUREAUCRATS and engineers who run China’s booming hydropower sector will be in listening mode in April when the world descends on Beijing for the second International Conference on Hydropower Technology & Equipment. The theme of this year’s government-sponsored gathering – ‘Sustainable China Hydropower Industry’ – reflects worries about the environmental impact of recent massive hydropower projects in China.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE COSMETICS and personal care sector in the Middle East is one of the fastest growing in the industry worldwide, registering 12% annual growth in the three years to 2008, and valued at US$2.1 billion, according to trade experts Epoc Messe Frankfurt (EMF).…

BY MARK GODFREY

BARRY Lee is probably typical of Chinese wine drinkers. The auto-sales accountant started off drinking a local Great Wall red at an office lunch, then got curious and went to a Beijing branch of the French Carrefour supermarket chain where he spent RMB78 (US$11.40) on a bottle of Chilean red.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INNOVATIVE recommendations are being developed to boost fruit and vegetable consumption by Euro 13.8 million European Union research project ISAFRUIT. It says consumers in Greece, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, eat the most fruit in Europe (70- 100 kg per person), followed by Germany, Poland and Britain at 40-60 kg, but that consumption is not rising.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has backed a review of the EU’s European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming, which listed 21 actions to promote environment-friendly production. Speaking in Nürnberg, Germany, she favoured a "mid-term evaluation" of the 2004 plan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS in Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovenia are trying to map the genetic code of superbug Clostridium (or C) difficile to help efforts to develop effective antibiotics or even a vaccine. The bug is often present in hospitals where it is hard to destroy through disinfection and infections are hard to treat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has issued a European Union (EU)-wide alert about the discovery of melamine contamination in lemon puff biscuits from Sri Lanka. The warning was made via the EU’s RASFF food safety alert system. This network also recently warned about the discovery in Finland of aflatoxins in groundnut kernels imported from Germany, originally grown in India.…