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In the latest in a string of bans on cheese products entering Russia, the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights and Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) has banned cheese products made by Poland’s Ostrowia.
But this latest dairy ban is not all it seems, and Milkiland, the Netherlands-based dairy products producer owning Ostrowia, has called for “dialogue” with Russian authorities because its banned ‘Wesola Krowka’ (‘Jolly Cow’) is made from vegetable fats.…

Milkiland, a Netherlands-based dairy products producer with operations in Poland, has called for “dialogue” with Russian authorities after Moscow’s consumer rights agency put an embargo on all non-dairy cheese imports from Poland, after examining one of its products.

The Russian agency, Rospotrebnadzor, released a statement in late February declaring that it had found that the ‘Wesola Krowka’ (‘Jolly Cow’) imitation cheese product did not meet Russian requirements for dairy products.…

Denmark slaughtered around 250,000 less pigs in 2014 compared to 2013, according to new data from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council (DAFC/ Landbrug & Fødevarer) based on figures supplied by the Danish Pig Producers association (DPP/ Danske Svineproducenter).
In total, Danish meat processing companies slaughtered 18.93 million pigs in 2014.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers today (Tuesday 24th Feb) approved a new pigmeat storage aid system, helping EU producers deal with low prices caused by the Russian trade embargo and rising production.
The system was proposed by the European Commission and allows producers to apply for temporary storage aid for six categories of pigmeat products, when market prices are too low.…

DAIMLER has told wardsauto that its move to streamline its commercial vehicle operations in Russia will put the company on a sounder footing in this market that has been severely hit by the fall in oil prices and Western economic sanctions.…

THE RUSSIAN government and the country’s textile industry will establish a Council for the Development of the Textile Industry, a private-public industry group charged with growing the sector. This initiative, announced on February 21, will involve leading Russian textile producers, including the BTK Group Co and the Tchaikovsky Textile Company.…

AN INTERNATIONAL regulatory cooperation pilot involving medicine regulators sharing real time assessments about generic medicines is now in full flow. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is leading the initiative, building on the European Union’s (EU) experience of cooperation between national regulators.…

THE RE-EXAMINATION of European Union (EU) market authorisations following concerns over clinical trials conducted by GVK Biosciences in Hyderabad, India, has sparked intense debate in Brussels.

A European Parliament hearing has heard comment and details about the recommendation from the European Medicine Agency’s committee for medicinal products for human use (CHMP) that some 800 forms and dosages of medicines approved in the EU be suspended.…

Security software makers Kaspersky Lab and crime fighters from Interpol, Europol and different countries have uncovered an unprecedented cyber-robbery.

Up to USD1 billion was stolen in about two years from financial institutions worldwide, Kaspersky said yesterday (FEBRUARY 16) while warning that attacks are continuing.…

In a country embroiled in an ugly armed conflict, the issue of confectionery may seem at first glance to be superfluous. In Ukraine, though, that is anything but the case.

Not only is confectionery a key industry for the country, but it is a highly politicised one.…