Search Results for: food

Keith Nuthall
THREE Sky Chef employees have been charged in connection with theft of over US$1.5 million worth of miniature bottles of spirits from the company’s ‘Bonded Room’ in John F. Kennedy airport, New York. Each of the three men has been charged with burglary and/or criminal possession of stolen property and face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation, (FAO), has handed over 290 new fishing boats, canoes and nets to Mozambican fishermen, whose equipment was destroyed when flooding and a cyclone struck the country last year.

Its donation – funded by the Italian government – was the final stage of an FAO rehabilitation project for Inhambane, Sofala and Gaza Provinces.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RECENT findings in cod farming lab experiments, performed in Newfoundland, Canada, have provided some encouraging results, rekindling hope that cod aquaculture may soon thrive.

Joel Bell, a marine biologist at Memorial University in St. John’s, the Newfoundland capital, has been performing lab tests on cod since 1995, and most recently, discovered techniques that may help higher numbers of baby cod grow into mature fish.…

BY DEIDRE MASON
SAFEGLASS SAFETY SMASH-BOX GLAZING

PLUSES: Prevents people injuring themselves if they have to break the glass

MINUSES: Could attract vandals no longer afraid of cutting themselves

VERDICT: An innovative product with real benefits for public and emergency services alike

COSTS: Depends on quantity and application but can work out cheaper in cases where toughened glass is used, for instance on buses for window-breaking hammers

Contact: Avril McNeill, Marketing Manager

Safeglass (Europe) Ltd,

Whitworth Building,

Scottish Enterprise technology park,

East Kilbride,

G75 0QD,

Scotland

Tel: +440 (0)1355 272438

e-mail: avril@safeclass.co.uk…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ducked making a potentially controversial ruling on the legality under EU freedom of trade rules of the Swedish laws banning alcohol advertising.

Judges had heard a case referred by the Stockholm district court, which had been brought by Sweden’s consumer ombudsman against a food and drink magazine Gourmet, which had carried ads for red wine and whisky.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
(maximum marks for this one, I think. Only drawback – it’s only as good as the alarm system it comes with.)

Price (installed):

the 2000 model (155 cubic metres) – pounds 1,350

the 4000 model (250 cubic metres) – pounds 1,800

the 8000 model (400 cubic metres) – pounds 2,200

Contact:

Smokecloak

10 Cochran Close, Crownhill

Milton Keynes, Bucks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has attempted to speed up preparations to launch the European Food Authority, by setting up an interim scientific advisory forum that will provide expert advice on food policy, ahead of the establishment of a permanent committee.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN government advisory group has called for increased numbers of seals to be hunted, to help recovering Atlantic fish stocks, which are estimated to be at 10 per cent of what they were 20 years ago.

The Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) said that the seal population has over-expanded and that its numbers must be controlled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a pre-requisite of successful policy making that public authorities need to have an accurate picture of the status quo, and also an effective way of measuring the results of reforms. Maybe nowhere is this truer than with the complex subject of sustainable agriculture and rural development.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CONSUMERS in Canada have been warned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency not to eat some Lakeside Packers ground beef products because it may contain the strain of E-coli bacteria that killed seven people and made thousands ill last year in the Walkerton outbreak, in Ontario.…