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Another AgMin scandal: adulterated rice accusations Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - The Agriculture Ministry's already poor reputation was further tarnished yesterday by allegations its officials had tailored rice seed specifications to favour certain bidders. The seed, reportedly bought by the www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13638
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Protecting Hom Mali a challenge Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - Protecting the origin of Thai Hom Mali rice under Thailand's Geographical Indications (GI) Bill may not be accepted by international organisations as it runs against GI principles, according to French embassy officials based www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13639
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New tax regime for distilled spirits Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - A new excise tax structure for distilled spirits will be based on alcohol content rather than beverage classification, according to Deputy Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha.
He said the restructuring would www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13640
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Toxic chemical use still widespread in farming Suphan Buri (December 2, 2002) - Eating water chestnuts or salted fish could put your health at risk due to the heavy use of toxic chemicals, organic farming activists warned yesterday. In Suphan Buri, the largest plantation area for water chestnuts, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13641
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Tesco-backed program to teach management skills Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University and superstore operator Tesco Lotus plan to jointly offer a retail business management diploma course starting in June.
The one-year programme, the first of its kind locally, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13642
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The Mama of all problems Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - Thai President Foods Plc, the local manufacturer of Mama brand instant noodles, is thinking up another brand name for its instant noodles sold in Taiwan as the Chinese-language version of its brand name has already been www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13643
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MP accused in compost scam resigns Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - Chucheep Harnsawat has resigned as the prime minister's adviser citing bad health and his alleged involvement in the fake compost scam. In his resignation letter, Mr Chucheep, a key Thai Rak Thai party member, asked www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13644
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Sora-at promises to get rid of corruption in AgMin Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - Agriculture Minister Sora-at Klinprathum is unhappy about poor management and moral standards among ministry staff. Mr Sora-at said most of his two months in the job had been taken up with tackling corruption. www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13645
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MP denies lamyai scandal accusations Chiang Mai (December 2, 2002) - An employee of a Golden Triangle casino owner says a local Thai Rak Thai MP was involved in a scam involving mortgaged lamyai here.
The allegation was made during a Chart Thai seminar by a man who said he worked www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13646
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Chicory root revived Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - Chicory has been used widely as a coffee substitute in western countries for decades, especially in times of war and by campers, but its various properties are comparatively unknown in Thailand.
DPO (Thailand) www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13647
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Every Briton should have a CJD test - Nobel laureate UK (December 2, 2002) - A scientist who won the Nobel prize for research on mad cow disease has said that the entire British population should be screened for vCJD, the human form of BSE. Prof Stan Prusiner has added his voice to calls for mass screening www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13648
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Major new slick hits Spanish coast Spain (December 2, 2002) - Patches of oil from a 9,000 ton oil slick are washing up on Spain's Galician coast - two weeks after the sinking of the tanker Prestige. The rest of the huge slick from the sunken tanker is about one kilometre off the north-west www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13649
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Russia plans barriers to meat imports Russia (December 2, 2002) - Russia's Agriculture Ministry said on Friday it planned to restrict meat imports in 2003, dealing a potentially serious blow to Europe's largest livestock export market and the United States, a major poultry supplier.
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Wal-Mart posts record one-day sales US (December 2, 2002) - Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has reported record one-day sales for the day after Thanksgiving. The retailer said shoppers spent a total of $1.43bn at its stores on Friday, compared with $1.25bn on the same day last year. www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13651
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Poor get PM's pledge on title deeds Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - The government wants to start conferring land ownership on the poor within two years, says Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He gave further details yesterday of a House agriculture committee proposal to give title www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13652
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Factory to turn cooking oil into fuel UK (December 2, 2002) - Plans to build a GBP 10m factory capable of converting used cooking oil into fuel have been announced. Argent Energy claims that the plant near Newarthill, Motherwell, would be the largest of its kind in the world. The company says www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13653
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New GM thresholds in EU worry Canadian exporters Canada (December 2, 2002) - Canadian shippers will find it difficult to meet new tolerance levels proposed for genetically modified (GM) grain in the European Union, industry sources said.
EU farm ministers agreed last week to require food and feed www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13654
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Industry to test EU waters on GM food after deal Belgium (December 2, 2002) - The European Union took a small step towards reopening its markets to genetically modified (GM) foods last week, but biotech firms still cannot be sure the EU is about to lift a virtual ban on its products.
Due to www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13655
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Dole Foods Philippine unit hit by grenade blast Philippines (December 2, 2002) - Suspected members of a kidnap gang have attacked Dole Foods Inc unit Dole Philippines Inc's pineapple plantation in the southern Philippine town of Polomolok with grenade blasts that damaged its property, the military www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13656
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Two Brazilian children die after eating ice cream Brazil (December 2, 2002) - Two children died in southeastern Brazil after eating ice cream that possibly contained toxic ingredients, police said Saturday. Jaelio de Oliveira Martins, 7, and his brother Jailson, 5, late Thursday ate ice cream at a www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13657
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100 soldiers at US base in Afghanistan sickened by food poisoning Afghanistan (December 2, 2002) - Turkey stuffing from a Thanksgiving holiday meal may have caused more than 100 U.S. and other nations' troops to fall ill with food poisoning at a base in Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday. Seventy-nine www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13658
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GM mutants as toxic as parent plants US (December 2, 2002) - Genetically modified plants can pass on the same level of toxicity to insects even when they are cross-bred with "natural" plants, scientists in the United States have shown. A study by researchers at the University of North www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13659
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ICAR, Proagro lock horns over clearance for GM mustard India (December 2, 2002) - The controversy over Proagro's genetically modified (GM) mustard is set to intensify, with the company questioning the need to conduct fresh open field trials of the hybrids under the direct supervision of the Indian Council of www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13660
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Almost 40 nations face food problems - UN agency Italy (December 2, 2002) - Some 39 countries, most in Africa, are facing serious food problems, with Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Eritrea particularly hard hit, a U.N. food agency said Friday. Twenty-five of the 39 countries are in Africa, the Rome-based www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13661
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Right technology turns poor soils productive Philippines (December 2, 2002) - The efforts of a group of agricultural experts headed by a retired agriculture professor from Los Banos is paying off for poor corn-based farmers in Argao and surrounding towns in Cebu. Dr. Romulo Davide, who initiated a www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13662
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Japan eyes 2007 end to rice paddy control Japan (December 2, 2002) - The farm ministry drafted Friday an outline of rice policy reforms, calling for changing a rice acreage reduction program as early as in 2007 into a system in which farmer organizations voluntarily adjust rice production, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13663
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Judge suspends Ecuador's biological ban on tuna Ecuador (December 2, 2002) - An appeal judge has ruled in favour of workers' unions and suspended the temporary tuna ban imposed by the authorities. The Fisheries Resources Department had set a ban on yellowfin, skipjack and bigeye tuna, which they said www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13664
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Patagonia holds shrimp seminar Argentina (December 2, 2002) - At Patagonia’s seminar entitled Sustainable Development of the Shrimp Fishery held earlier this week, businessmen and government officials discussed the unfavourable investment climate and the lack of satellite monitoring www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13665
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Ecuador protests against shrimp ban Ecuador (December 2, 2002) - Shrimp fishermen are protesting against the ban on catching shrimp, which the authorities say will take effect from 15 December through 31 January 2003. During the ban all catches, transport, processing and sale of adult, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13666
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Seed dealer forgery led to legal battle with Monsanto - farmer US (December 2, 2002) - A Southern Illinois farmer discovered he was in trouble with agribusiness giant Monsanto when U.S. marshals showed up at his Metropolis farm and confiscated his soybean seeds. That was the beginning of a two-year legal battle in www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13667
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Drought may devastate 70% of summer crops Australia (December 2, 2002) - A drought that has devastated winter crops in eastern Australia will also ravage summer crops, the government forecaster said Monday.
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, ABARE, said rice, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13668
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400 Argentines try to sack supermarkets Argentina (December 2, 2002) - Eight people, part of a mob of 400, were arrested Thursday in Buenos Aires Province, when attempting to break into supermarkets, police said Friday. In San Fernando, the outskirts of the capital, the police used rubber www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13669
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Sugar turns plastics biodegradable India (December 2, 2002) - Chemists in India are lacing plastics with sugar to make them palatable to soil bacteria. The plastics, which normally survive for decades in landfills, start to biodegrade within days. The tweaked plastics are polythene, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13670
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Farmer jailed for selling rotten meat UK (December 2, 2002) - Condemned meat that was supposed to be used for pet food has been recycled for human consumption for years by a Norfolk farmer. Up to 40 tonnes a month of diseased and rotting chicken was returned to the food chain by Michael www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13671
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Africa spice islanders battle market collapse Tanzania (December 2, 2002) - It is harvest time in Pemba. The clove trees are laden with buds ripe for picking and in the villages the potholed roads are lined with spices spread out to dry. One of a smattering of islands off Tanzania which make up www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13672
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Pak Phanang basin project to be sped up Bangkok (December 2, 2002) - Work on the Pak Phanang basin development in Nakhon Si Thammarat will be speeded up after His Majesty the King asked for more progress, Deputy Prime Minister Suvit Khunkitti said.
The King proposed the project www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13673
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UK foot-and-mouth case tests negative UK (December 2, 2002) - A suspected case of the foot-and-mouth animal disease in a steer on a farm in Scotland has tested negative, the Scottish Executive said on Saturday. "The initial tests on the samples sent to the laboratory at Pirbright, Surrey www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13674
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Lettuce aphid spreads it tentacles New Zealand (December 2, 2002) - Hawke's Bay lettuce growers' fears have been realised – the lettuce aphid has arrived. The region's vegetable growers said in July they believed it would only be a matter of time before their crops were hit by the aphid www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13675
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Taiwanese gov't, farmers reach consensus on reform Taiwan (December 2, 2002) - The government and representatives of farmers and fishermen reached a consensus Saturday on financial reform measures at a conference aimed at solving disputes over ailing grassroots credit units. According to a written www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13676
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Spanish clementines surface in Florida store US (December 2, 2002) - The US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is conducting an investigation into how 200 cartons of Spanish clementines came to be shipped to a Sam’s Club store in Tallahassee, Florida, according to www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13677
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Novartis wants better offers for health food, sports nutrition units Switzerland (December 2, 2002) - Swiss drug giant Novartis said Friday that it was delaying the divestment of two units, Health Food & Slimming and Sports Nutrition, because of a lack of attractive offers. "In the current economy, corporate decision www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13678
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Non-dairy drink sales reach EUR 228 million EU (December 2, 2002) - Non-dairy drink sales are projected to expand by 22% to EUR 228 million in 2002 according to new research by Organic Monitor (http://www.organicmonitor.com).
European consumers are showing very high demand for non-dairy products www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13679
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Aqua-farmers protest control of growth New Zealand (December 2, 2002) - A Government crack-down to control growth in aquaculture development will cost $2 billion over seven years, marine farmers warn. The Aquaculture Amendment Bill would prevent regionial councils processing applications to www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13680
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German shops renew calls for longer opening hours Germany (December 2, 2002) - German retailers renewed their call on Friday to extend shop opening hours to boost demand in Europe's biggest economy after the government offered a glimmer of hope that the laws might be changed.
"There are no www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13681
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S.African silence on GM crop data may backfire South Africa (December 2, 2002) - The department of agriculture's stance on releasing information on Genetically Modified (GM) crops grown in South Africa may backfire as country's export customers may begin to reject South African products if they have www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=13682
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