Search Results for: Switzerland

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WORLD food standards body the Codex Alimentarius has released final drafts of three new global food safety guidelines, which it wants to formally approve at a meeting of its ruling commission in Geneva, Switzerland, in June and July.…

BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

SRI Lanka’s Tamil Tigers have stepped up commercial crime across continents to fund what they call the "final war" of separation, now the formal ceasefire with the govern,ent has ended. But, the foundation to pursue such sophisticated crime was laid during Sri Lanka’s highly internationalised peace process, reports Keith Noyahr from Colombo.…

BY Monica Dobie

A Hungarian university has shown that computer programmes and algorithms can accurately classify different types of dog barks, and in some instances better than trained dog lovers, according to new research published in the journal Animal Cognition.

Lead researcher, Csaba Molnár and his team from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary analysed 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in six different situations: ‘stranger’, ‘fight’, ‘walk’, ‘alone’, ‘ball’ and ‘play’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round moves towards completion, a big push is underway to see a wine and spirits geographical indication register established within final deal. A WTO special group for the issue met yesterday (Mon Dec 3) and supporters of the register pushed for full negotiations on the issue, ending technical discussions that have dragged on for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REVISED food trade deal has been negotiated between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland, which includes low or duty-free quotas for EU and Swiss confectionary ingredients. Examples include imports into the EU of cherries, raspberries and other sweet fruits, and imports into Switzerland of EU nuts, sweet fruits and acacia honey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has opened a 1,900 tonne annual quota for duty free imports into the EU from Switzerland of boneless ham in brine (enclosed in a bladder or artificial gut); smoked boneless pork chops; pork sausages (excluding wild boar); and pork neck.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE INTERNATIONAL Formula Council (IFC) has dismissed safety fears about liquid infant formula following claims by the Washington DC-based Environmental Working Group (EWG) that the food is sold in cans lined with bisphenol A (BPA) a chemical that mimics the hormone estrogen, posing a potential health threat to infants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round moves towards completion, a big push is underway to see a wine and spirits geographical indication register established within final deal. A WTO special group for the issue met yesterday (Mon Dec 3) and supporters of the register pushed for full negotiations on the issue, ending technical discussions that have dragged on for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round moves towards completion, a big push is underway to see a wine and spirits geographical indication register established within final deal. A WTO special group for the issue met yesterday (Mon Dec 3) and supporters of the register pushed for full negotiations on the issue, ending technical discussions that have dragged on for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has opened a 1,900 tonne quota for duty free imports into the EU from Switzerland of boneless ham in brine; smoked boneless pork chops; pork sausages; and pork neck.

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