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BY EMMA JACKSON

THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered 18 European Union (EU) member states to collectively repay Euro 214.6 million in misspent food production funding. France owes Euro 71 million for weak on-the-spot checks regarding environmental and animal welfare standards, ensuring ‘cross compliance’ commitments made by producers are followed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DESPITE being granted special emergency subsidies, Europe’s hard-pressed dairy farmers are increasing their protests across Europe. Yesterday (MONDAY 21 SEPT), a group of producers set hay on fire and spilt milk in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GIVEN contract packing is often undertaken by larger businesses and of course, packers usually welcome economies of scale, cross-border trades within the European Union (EU) is commonplace within Europe.

And as a result, naturally, keeping on top of EU legislation is essential for contract packing clients and suppliers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL research project has shown immunity to malaria can be developed by patients inoculated with intact parasites whilst being treated with the common anti-malarial chloroquine. This kills the parasites towards the end of their life in the human body, apparently giving immune systems enough time to develop resistance.…

BY WILL ROBERTSON, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROBUST nature of the southeast Asian palm oil industry has been illustrated by the way the market has remained strong despite both the global recession and the arrival of weather phenomenon El Nino this year and its attendant drought conditions.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

Food commodity prices are seldom out of the news nowadays, due to a mushrooming global population, the food-for-fuel controversy, an increasing focus on sustainability and the continued growth of the organic sector. However, beyond the generality of crop prices spiralling to new highs in 2007 and 2008 and then plummeting – in some cases – back to where they were before the boom, the picture is far from uniform.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUPPORTERS of liberalising the European Union’s (EU) common agriculture policy and other food subsidy regimes can expect a helping hand from the new Swedish presidency of the EU from July 1.

Sweden has traditionally allied itself with Britain, the Netherlands, and eastern European liberalisers in the EU Council of Ministers, which it will chair for six months until the end of this year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, LUCY JONES, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, JULIAN RYALL, and KARRYN MILLER

THERE are 108 recognised Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) throughout the world and more are being created every year as the fight against international money laundering becomes ever more global.…

BY ESTRID STROLL, in Leingarten, Germany, and KEITH NUTHALL

JAPAN and Germany are maybe the world’s top ranking electrical engineering companies, so it is no surprise that the Baden-Württemburg-based and Japanese-owned Hosokawa Bepex GmbH has a solid reputation for producing confectionary manufacturing machines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WOULDN’T it be lovely if there were perfect research universities delivering perfect high quality courses, and that the more world beating research undertaken by academics, the better their teaching became.

Yes, it would, but of course such a rosy scenario does not exist, and the recent Research Report of the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge has even thrown doubt on whether it is possible.…