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Friland, the Danish Crown owned organic meat specialist, has entered a tri-partnership to develop Wagyu cattle herds in Denmark and produce Kobe meat for high-end consumers in Denmark and beyond, including restaurants and specialty supermarkets.

It is working with Copenhagen-based Japanese restaurant Umani and the Søren Vester farming enterprise to produce Kobe-style meat from purebred black Wagyu herds.…

THE UNITED Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has launched a campaign raising awareness about organised crime and counterfeit goods, with a significant focus on fake medicines. Called ‘Counterfeit: Don’t buy into organised crime’, its aim making consumers less likely to buy fakes.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) police agency Europol and the USA’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have successfully combined efforts to break a counterfeit cancer drug ring based in Turkey. Two Turkish nationals from Istanbul have now been charged with smuggling fake prescription medicine from Turkey and other countries into the United States.…

IRAN and Turkey are regional giants within the Middle East oilseeds sector, and while their industries have been performing the threat of political instability and unstable energy subsidies threaten their profits.

According to Bill Baker, foreign agricultural service analyst at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Turkey and Iran constitute the two “major producers of oilseed crops in the Middle East.”…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released official guidance on how to protect the environment when ‘fracking’ for shale gas. It has given European Union (EU) member states 18 months to follow its suggestions, saying it will “review the effectiveness” of this voluntary approach after this deadline.…

THE CIVIL conflict and political tension that has wracked South Sudan since December has delayed already difficult discussions about building a new oil pipeline to this troubled, oil-rich and landlocked country. As it stands, South Sudan – the world’s newest country – has only one option for exporting its crude: a pipeline cutting through Sudan – the country from which it seceded in 2011, following a decades-long civil war.…

South Korea’s plans to drastically cut the number of university places in the country over the next decade, because of declining population rates, has caused unease and disquiet within the country’s higher education. The South Korean minister of education Seo Nam-soo has said the government plans to cut 160,000 university places by 2023.…

A FIRST set of technical standards saying how European manufacturers should build technologies that enable vehicles to communicate with each other and with roadside communications infrastructure has been released. The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have issued an initial set of standards for cooperative intelligence transport systems (C-ITS) – called Release 1 – following a request from the European Commission in 2009.…

Sri Lanka’s apparel and textile sector exported a record USD4.3 billion in 2013 and its Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) has predicted overseas sales will continue rising this year.

Its president Noel Piyatilake told just-style said the industry is targeting an ambitious mark of USD6 billion exports by 2020, making Sri Lanka one of the world’s top 10 apparel exporting countries.…

The Philippine garment industry says it will relaunch its lobbying efforts to push a law through the US Congress giving it privileged access to American markets, after the shelving of the long anticipated proposed America’s Save Our Industries Act (SAVE Act).…