The Chinese government said the European Union's recent decision to
ban certain Chinese meat products on health grounds is
"unacceptable" and warned it could seriously affect bilateral
trade.
Japan said on Monday that food products made from imported rice
would not be affected by a temporary sales ban issued because of
concerns about the safety of foreign rice.
A synthetic antioxidant that can delay and prevent the onset of
autoimmune diabetes in mice could be a useful tool against diabetes
, scientists report this week.
Regular consumption of a chicken essence supplement from food and
health supplement company Cerebos Pacific could help keep blood
sugar level under control, so reveal scientists from the Institute
for Protein Research at Osaka University.
Demand for food containers in the US is forecast to grow more than
three per cent annually to $12.6 billion (€14.5bn) in 2005, reports
US market research company Freedonia Group.
Yesterday's report by the EU Food and Veterinary Office on the
operation of controls over verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli
(VTEC) has revealed inconsistent monitoring between the six
countries visited.
The United Nations world food body urged countries to remove the
antibiotic chloramphenicol from the food chain after events last
week led to a European food scare.
The Food Standards Agency yesterday launched a food safety
management initiative aimed at the producers of specialist British
cheeses such as Cheddar, Stilton and Cheshire.
McDonald's Corp. said on Thursday that its fourth-quarter net
income had fallen 40 per cent, its fifth straight quarterly
decline, as the fast-food giant took charges for U.S. restructuring
and faced declining sales in Latin...
Italy has tightened regulation of its fresh fruit and vegetables
sector to prevent a repeat of the soaring prices seen after drought
and ice destroyed crops, a senior government official said this
week.
Migros, Switzerland's largest supermarket chain, has become the
first European retailer to commit itself to buying palm oil
exclusively from ecologically sound sources.
The EU Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries (CIAA)
recently reminded the new EU Spanish Presidency of the important
issues that it must tackle during the six month presidency.
The chairman of Anglo-Dutch food company Unilever has called on the
new European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to take the lead in the
matter of food safety and to simplify the licensing of novel foods,
in order to encourage innovation.
Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. said on Wednesday
earnings in its fiscal second quarter rose 20 per cent as improved
oilseed crushing margins amid tightening industry capacity helped
lift results.
Snow Brand Food Co Ltd said on Wednesday it falsely claimed 13.8
tonnes of Australian beef was Japanese when it made a 280-tonne
sale to a government-subsidised industry group.
Experts, invited by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the
World Health Organisation and the United Nations University, met
for the Expert Consultation on Energy in Human Nutrition, the first
such consultation since 1981.
US food company Quaker Oats Company and Biosafe Medical
Technologies, Inc. this week announced a new partnership to help
consumers reduce their cholesterol.
Dutch food ingredients company DSM announced this week that it is
set to build a new applications development laboratory for Food
Specialties and Bakery Ingredients in Delft, Netherlands.
A consignment of fishmeal feed produced in Germany using some
ingredients contaminated with an antibiotic presents no danger to
public health, the Lower Saxony state agriculture ministry in
Germany said yesterday.
Britain will ask this week to be designated free of foot-and-mouth
disease, so ending costly international trade sanctions imposed
during last year's epidemic, officials said on Monday.
Australian food giant Goodman Fielder plans to sell its
Invercargill food ingredients export business to an
Australian-owned company, writes the New Zealand Herald this week.
The European Commission this week cleared the proposed acquisition
of the French starch business Cerestar by US company Cargill Inc,
with one exception. Concerns about the deal's impact in the UK
market for sweeteners means that...
The Ajinomoto Association Prize for Research in Nutrition has been
awarded to Professor Claude Ricour, Chief Physician of Hepatic
Gastroenterology and Paediatric Nutrition at Hôpital Necker in
Paris.
Research into a new appetite suppressant may have reached a new
stage. Scientists in the United States claim this week that a
compound, called C75, successfully alters the natural balance of
brain messengers that normally send signals...
Fortification of food with folic acid to prevent neural-tube
defects in babies also lowers plasma total homocysteine, a risk
factor for vascular disease, claim researchers from Ireland this
week.
The herbal extract, butterbur, is as effective asantihistamines for
treating hay fever, and does nothave the sedative effects often
associated with thesedrugs, finds a study published in this week's
British Medical Journal.
Mouse experiments suggest that folic acid deficiency could increase
the brain's susceptibility to Parkinson's disease, according to
scientists at the US National Institute on Aging.
Two US companies have joined numerous others worldwide in recalling
their jelly products from the market, following FDA advice that the
jellies pose a serious threat to children.
German authorities are searching for a consignment of imported veal
contaminated with an antibiotic which can halt production of human
blood cells, the federal Ministry of Agriculture and Consumer
Protection said.
Britain said on Wednesday it would extend a programme aimed at
eradicating scrapie from sheep amid fears that the illness could
mask mad cow disease in the national flock. Scientists are
investigating whether mad cow disease, or BSE,...
Ingredients company DSM has signed an agreement with enzyme
producer Novozymes, thereby settling a number of lawsuits filed in
several countries, relating to the infringement and validity of
phytase patents owned by DSM.
The European Union has agreed to resume beef imports from Argentina
on February 1, almost a year after they were banned because of an
outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, Associated Press reports
The opening of the new Consumers' Association(CA) Scottish office
in Edinburgh was the occasion for Sheila McKechnie, CA Director, to
launch a Consumers' Association campaign calling for the Food
Standards Agency Scotland...
Antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will go to
court to block the acquisition of Leiner Davis Gelatin Corp. and
Goodman Fielder USA Inc. by Germany's Deutsche Gelatine-Fabriken
Stoess AG, the agency said...