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BY PHILIP FINE

FAST food meat and high-speed Internet have teamed up. McDonald’s Restaurants and Intel Corp. have launched a joint pilot marketing campaign that offers customers high-speed wireless Internet access in 10 Manhattan, New York, McDonald’s restaurants. The firms plan to expand the deal to include hundreds of other locations by the end of this year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN food scientist has discovered a technique that would stop consumers from finding that murky liquid at the surface of their yoghurt. The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s John Lucey has found a simple alternative to adding stabilisers and pectin, the costly technique most often used by commercial yoghurt-makers who want to lessen their product’s whey content.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a rule of thumb that when trade grows, so does crime. So it is no surprise that counterfeiters have taken advantage of the growth in commerce within the European Union to sell an increasing number of fake goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the Iraqi regime faced potential invasion, the United Nations-run oil for food programme has continued to operate healthily, with revenues for the week ending February 21 totalling US$338 million from 11.9 million barrels. The UN’s Office of the Iraq Programme said exports averaged about 1.7 million barrels a day.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has thrown doubt on the legality of national food quality marks within the European Union (EU), through a judgement ruling that a ‘Markenqualität aus deutschen Landen’ (quality label for produce made in Germany) scheme breaks EU freedom of trade rules by excluding products made out of its home country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has thrown doubt on the legality of national food quality marks within the European Union (EU), through a judgement ruling that a ‘Markenqualität aus deutschen Landen’ (quality label for produce made in Germany) scheme breaks EU freedom of trade rules by excluding products made out of its home country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMMENTS are being sought on proposed reforms to global guidelines on the operation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems. They have been drawn up by the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius, with particular focus being thrown on adapting the advice to the needs of small and new businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMERS may know them as the high priests of capitalism and expect them to preach against agricultural subsidies, but a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has laid bare doubts that a truly effective farm support system has yet been invented, let alone implemented.…