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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EU funded project has developed a new potato sorting system which inflicts less damage on the vegetable than traditional systems. The DECOP project meet demand from the potato processing industry and the food retail sector. Sensors recognise individual potato varieties, fixing flow rates and filtering.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has suspended the shipment into the EU of de-boned and maturated bovine meat from northern Argentina following reports of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs in certain provinces. The European Commission said the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health had voted in favour of the ban which will apply to meat from the departments of Ramon Lista in the province of Formosa and from General Jose de San Martin, Rivadavia, Oran, Iruya and Santa Victoria in the Province of Salta, where the outbreak has been centred, (it is close to the border with Paraguay and Bolivia).…

BY PHILIP FINE

WITH profits down and a flooded chicken market, America’s Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat producer, is planning to sack more than a third of its Arkansas plant workforce. The company says it will be outsourcing the work of the 600 dismissed unionised workers, who mainly removed bones from chicken carcasses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has demanded that a disputes panel be established at the World Trade Organisation to hear its complaint that Australian quarantine rules against meat and other food products are so tough, they break world trade laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOLLOWING the failed World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun, Mexico, the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation negotiations are being delayed. The “special session” of officials dealing with the food and drink portion of the Doha Development Round was supposed to meet in Geneva on October 6-9, but this meeting has now been postponed “indefinitely.”…

BY MARK ROWE
JAPANESE scientists have developed a beer that they claim acts as a facial treatment to keep you looking young at heart. The beer – which should be drunk rather than applied to the skin – has been produced by the Akita Research Institute of Food and Brewing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ELECTRONIC business solutions and services are important to 47 per cent of larger European Union tobacco companies (grouped with a sample of drinks and food businesses), according to a European Commission report saying e-commerce is still growing in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) will over the next three months try to pick up the pieces from its failed summit in Cancun, Mexico. The meeting was effectively scuppered by the developing world, which refused to talk about writing rules on protecting investment rights into a new WTO agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ELECTRONIC business solutions and services are important to 47 per cent of larger European Union beverage companies (grouped with a sample of food and tobacco businesses), according to a European Commission report saying e-commerce is still growing in the EU.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
HINDUSTAN Lever has been trying to persuade Indian parents to buy Multiaction Surf, by offering the means to avoid washing their children’s clothes altogether – a foreign school scholarship. The slightly ironic promotional scheme ‘Colour Your Future’ asks children to enter a competition by painting a picture based on what they wants to achieve in adulthood; paintings have to be titled: “I want to be…” Hindustan Lever has been offering fixed deposits of between INDRupees 100,000 (US$2,173) and 500,000 (US$10,863) for zonal and national winners, respectively.…