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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled programmes promoting food sales within the EU. Products concerned include fruit and vegetables, cheeses and milk products, plus general campaigns on organically produced food. They will be 50 per cent co-financed by the Commission, which will spend Euro 32.1 million, generally over three years.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US regulators have delayed the launch of a generic version of breast-cancer drug tamoxifen, just as Barr Laboratories was getting ready to launch its treatment. The Food and Drug Administration extended to February, 2003, the patent held by AstraZeneca PLC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank and the World Trade Organisation have established a new international fund – the Standards and Trade Development Facility – which will help developing countries implement the strict and complex standards that are erected for the food trade by bodies such as Codex Alimentarius.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
APPLICATIONS for food products to be designated by the EU as a Protected Designation of Origin, a Protected Geographical Indication or a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed can now be consulted on a Brussels website: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/foodqual/protec/firstpub/index_en.htm…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries will become increasingly dependent on cereal, meat and milk imports by the year 2030, the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has claimed, which says they could be producing only 86 per cent of their own cereal needs, with net imports rising from103 million tonnes today to 265 million tonnes.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s drinks industry is one of the continent’s key earners according to a report from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which says its productivity is much higher than that of the food processing sector.

The top performing country in the latest pan-EU figures available (1999) in the drinks industry was France, at Euro 103,700 generated in terms of value added by the sector per person in employment.…

BY MARK ROWE
ILLEGAL migrant workers working in slave-like conditions for just US1$ a month in a garmant factory in Thailand have won compensation worth a total of US$53,000. The 30 ethnic Karen women, many aged under 18, worked at the Bang Bon factory from 7am to 9pm without any holiday.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union scientists have attempted to lay the ghost of the theory that sheep have developed a special form of BSE, distinct from the known brain disease scrapie. Brussels’ scientific steering committee has ruled that sheepmeat is BSE free and so “sheep casings should not be included in the list of specified risk materials in relation to BSE.”…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lanka’s Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise holder Cargills Food Services (Pvt) Ltd. has invested SLRupees four million on converting an old Ceylon Transport Board bus to offer a mobile KFC service, which is being run as an experiment.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WITH genetically engineered cows, goats and pigs being developed for pharmaceutical purposes other than providing us with filet mignon, chèvre cheese and strips of bacon, one serious question left begging is whether the pharmaceuticals industry should start to think more about adjusting their operations so that they can incorporate farmers and meat and dairy producers?…