Retail prices of livestock and poultry are expected to increase in
the Philippines as local producers predict a possible rise in the
prices of animal feeds due to the import ban on meat and bone meal
imposed by the Agriculture department.
17 US states said they have entered into a second agreement with
the French-German biotechnology group Aventis CropScience to
compensate farmers whose corn was tainted by the company's
gene-altered StarLink variety.
After a round of tests on the safety of unapproved StarLink corn as
animal feed, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries has found no evidence of health risks from pigs fed on
the biotech product.
U.K. research published on Thursday said that an entrenched sheep
disease, scrapie, could have triggered mad cow disease, whose human
form has killed more than 100 people, primarily in Britain.
As an effort to keep BSE out of the food chain, a new certification
system to determine the condittions under which beef and beef
products may enter Australia is to take effect on September 16,
2001.
Two million children die each year from contaminated food and water
in developing countries, the WHO chief said on Monday, urging them
to upgrade rapidly...
According to the Korean Food & Drug Administration (KFDA), five
South Korean companies used banned Starlink corn to make edible
corn starch and they...
For the second time in as many months, French lawmakers are about
to blame Britain for the spread of mad cow disease, saying French
red tape made it worse,...
An international conference on mad cow disease on Thursday urged
all countries to take preemptive measures to combat the fatal,
brain-wasting illness,...
The American grain processing giant Archer Daniels Midland Co.
claims it is to acquire Ag Processing Inc.'s stake in the U.S. and
Caribbean operations...
Food containing genetically modified ingredients banned in Britain
is to go on sale in there with a GM-free label under controversial
proposals to be...
Soybean acreage is expected to climb 4 per cent, opening the door
for a potential record soybean crop, according to U.S. ag attaché
in Canada, Kathleen...
Scientists announced this week that they are developing an edible
vaccine that could stop the E. coli bacteria where it starts - in
cattle and other...
Microencapsulated ingredients specialists Balchem Corporation
announced on Tuesday that its subsidiary BCP Ingredients, Inc. has
entered into an agreement...
A report on the handling of risk factors in the outbreak of mad cow
disease criticices France's Agriculture Ministry for dragging its
feet in forbidding...
The Hungarian Government is pushing for a full lifting of the ban
on meat and food product shipments to Russia, according to Péter
Balás, Deputy State...
The European Commission has submitted to the Member States a
working paper on the future strategy on the use of meat-and-bone
meal (MBM) in Europe which...
The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) advising the European
Commission on BSE related issues published on Monday its opinion on
the risk of Bovine Spongiform...
Franco-German giant Aventis SA (AVEP) is near completetion of its
animal nutrition business. The business is to go for around 300
million euros ($268...
The European Commission on Monday presented its report on the
supply of plant proteins to satisfy the additional demand for plant
protein in animal feed....
A task force composed of members of the organic food and seafood industry representatives last week submitted two long-awaited reports to the National...
The European Commission has granted regulatory clearance to the
acquisition by Cargill Inc. of Agribrands International, a
U.S.-based producer and marketer...
Central and east European agriculture ministers agreed at a meeting
on Thursday to harmonise efforts to keep their countries free of
mad cow disease....
Japan is to ask the United States to explain how genetically
modified corn banned in Japan has again been discovered in imports
from America, a Health...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued a
proposed rule and a draft guidance document concerning food
developed through biotechnology....
The Health and Welfare Ministry in Japan confirmed on Wednesday
that U.S.-grown genetically modified corn banned for consumption in
Japan has been mixed...
Before introducing a total ban on meat and bone meal in animal feed
the European Union must carefully consider the consequences,
European Farm Commissioner...
The European Commission has adopted a proposal to exclude condemned
animal material from the feed chain, EUBusiness reported recently.
The move 'is one...
