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CONAGRA DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted European Union (EU) competition authority clearance to US-based private equity investment group Carlyle Group acquiring full control of Spain’s Saprogal S.A. by from another American company, food giant ConAgra Foods Inc. Saprogal produces and supplies poultry products, pet food and animal feed mostly in Spain and Portugal, commanding annual sales exceeding Euro 250 million.…
SAFETY RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURO 192 million will be spent on food quality and safety research this year under the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme for research, the European Commission has said. Short-listed projects tackle issues such as traceability, contaminants in food, emerging pathogens, diseases affecting animals and crops, food allergy, obesity and nutrition.…
BUSINESS TRAVEL FEATURE
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD is a small place when it comes to business these days. Increasingly, multi-nationals, as well as medium-sized companies are setting up shop in all four corners of the world. Outsourcing work and creating offices in developing countries is de rigueur to cut costs.…
ROMANIA - EU ENTRY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROMANIA’S food production will receive Euro 4.72 billion in EU payments over 2007-2009, under an agreement helping the country join the EU by 2007. It would also allow Romania to protect traditional names of certain milk, yogurt, buttermilk, cheese, salami, sausages, bread, pretzels, pie, and processed fruit products.…
WTO ROUND PROGRESS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROGRESS is being made at the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round talks on agriculture liberalisation, their chairman Tim Groser has claimed following three days’ consultations. Participating Geneva diplomats have told just-food.com that all parties are moving towards a deal on a deadline for ending food export and a compromise on the extent of future non-emergency food aid.…
WTO ROUND PROGRESS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STEADY progress is being made at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round agriculture talks, their chairman Tim Groser has told the WTO trade negotiations committee. All parties are moving towards ending food export subsidies and a compromise on future non-emergency food aid.…
ORGANIC FOOD PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming including 21 policy measures, such as improving information about organic farming, streamlining public support via rural development, improving production standards and strengthening research.…
HYPERACTIVITY - ADDITIVES
BY MONICA DOBIE
CHILDREN who consume food additives such as colourings and preservatives are more likely to have behavioural problems according to British research. The study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood was conducted on 277 three-year-olds over four weeks.…
BIODIESEL OPINION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIALIST committee of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared that manufacturing biodiesel is a safe way of disposing of so-called category 1 animal by-products, that could spread BSE or CJD. EFSA’s panel on biological hazards has concluded that because the material at the start of the production process is rendered and treated at 133Celsius for 20 minutes, “it may be concluded that the resulting biodiesel (and by-products) do not carry a TSE risk.”…
BSE ERADICATION RULES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PERMANENT shift away from former draconian rules insisting on culling a whole herd containing cattle with BSE has been confirmed by the European Union (EU) approving a new regulation demanding only the slaughter of a cohort related to an infected animal.…