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TUNISIAN HALAL POULTRY SECTOR SAVED FROM BIRD FLU BY CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS
The Tunisian halal poultry sector has claimed its good practice has been preventing livestock from becoming infected with bird flu, that can infect human consumers. Tunisia’s vulnerability to the disease is particularly intense because the country lies on the key wild bird migration routes between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.…
MALDIVES PUSH FOR HALAL TOURISM LIKELY TO BOOST HALAL FOOD IMPORTS
The proactive move by the mainly Muslim south Asian archipelago of Maldives to boost halal tourism will make this country a larger market for halal-certified food imports. Imported food sold to its permanent population of 540,500 must be halal food under Maldives Food and Drug Authority (FDA) regulations, said Dr Abdullah Shiham Hassan a senior Maldives lawyer and past head of law in the faculty of Shariah law at the Maldives National University: “This is checked and monitored by the FDA regularly.” …
WESTERN POWERS IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA OVER UKRAINE AGGRESSION
The United States, European Union (EU), Germany and the UK have reacted swiftly against Russian interests following its government’s recognition of independence of two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine. The sanctions follow the announcement yesterday (Monday Feb 21) by President Vladimir Putin regarding the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s republics, into which he has openly sent Russian troops, as ‘peacekeepers’.…
FARM TO FORK LEGISLATION IS RESTRICTIVE AND DAMAGING, SAY EXPERTS
EUROPE’S dairy production and trade must not suffer from the implementation of the European Union (EU)’s farm to fork (F2F) plans (1), announced May 2020 and at the heart of the European Green Deal to “make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly,” dairy experts have told Dairy Industries International (DII).…
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – CEFS UPSET OVER UK OPENING SUGAR MARKET TO NON-EUROPEAN PRODUCERS
The European Association of Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS) has attacked the UK government for extending until December 2024 an import quota of 260,000 tonnes for raw sugar, claiming this could disrupt the European sugar industry and market. “The UK’s approach is alarming, since it undermines existing concessions offered to sugar producers around the world,” said CEFS, notably European Union producers and those from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries who usually have some special access to EU markets (and formerly UK markets prior to Brexit).…
NEW DUTCH HALAL STANDARD AIMS TO DELIVER RELIGIOUS RESPECT AND ANIMAL WELFARE
As controversy continues over the disconnect between the European Union (EU) animal livestock stunning rules and halal slaughtering requirements, the Netherlands’ Muslim official representative organisation has designed a new halal standard that aims to create a system that respects both religious rules and animal welfare needs.…
PERSONAL CREDIBILITY IS KEY TO EFFECTIVE FRAUD INVESTIGATION SAYS EXPERIENCED TRAINERPERSONAL CREDIBILITY IS KEY TO EFFECTIVE FRAUD INVESTIGATION SAYS EXPERIENCED TRAINER
Fraud investigators need to spend less time pretending to be a TV detective and more time being their authentic selves when probing scams, a former instructor at the USA’s Inspector General Criminal Investigator Academy (IGCIA) has stressed to Fraud Intelligence.
In an interview, Mark Anderson, of Anderson Investigative Associates (AIA), who has also worked at the USA department of justice and the department of homeland security’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Centre, said: “We have to have a consistency in who we are.…
PLANT-BASED MEAT ALTERNATIVES MARKET IN INDIA
India’s 1.3 billion population with an average age of 29, has been witnessing steady growth in meat consumption. According to an OECD report, India consumed six million tonnes of meat in 2020 (4.6kg per person). Nearly half the population now consumes non-vegetarian meals once a week in India.…
SOUTH KOREA’S DYNAMIC PAINT AND COATING MARKET RECOVERS AFTER COVID-19 DECLINE
South Korea’s paint and coatings market is readying itself for a sustained rebound after 2021 saw it recover from declining sales in 2020 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. UK-based market researcher Euromonitor International’s Paints and Varnishes in South Korea report published in December 2021 showed that the country’s paints and varnishes production value declined by 0.9% year on year in 2020, to USD6.8 billion, but Euromonitor predicts the industry’s turnover will have fully recovered in 2021 to 2019 levels or beyond. …
EU REGULATORY ROUND UP – EFSA CRACKS DOWN ON BPA
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared it will impose an effective European Union (EU) ban on using bisphenol A (BPA) to make food contact materials coatings. It is consulting on plans to reduce a tolerable daily intake by consumers of BPA to almost zero – 0.04 nanograms per kilogram of body weight per day.…