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Improved harvests for investors Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) and Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF) continue to be favoured by investors looking for plays in the agriculture and food processing industries. CPF is considered the bellwether in the Agribusiness www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15059
created on 2003-01-20
EU vets keep ban on all US poultry imports Belgium (January 20, 2003) - EU veterinary experts have failed to agree on limiting an import ban on U.S. poultry to California, where chicken farms are battling with the highly contagious Exotic Newcastle Disease, officials said on Friday.
A www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15060
created on 2003-01-20
Doi Tung opens cafe Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - After gaining wide recognition in Thailand as a prime Arabica coffee bean supplier, the Doi Tung Development Project has expanded into retail sales by opening its first coffee shop in Bangkok.
The Doi Tung Coffee www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15061
created on 2003-01-20
Heavy-duty trucks for rally against weight limit Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - About 2,500-3,000 heavy-duty trucks will be assembled in protest against the 21-tonne truckload limit at a rice trade centre on Suphan Buri-Bangbuathong road on Wednesday.
About 500 agriculture business operators www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15062
created on 2003-01-20
Hong Kong to strengthen bird flu control Hong Kong (January 20, 2003) - A senior official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government said Friday that the SAR government will take more measures to maintain chicken farms' biosecurity and implement more strict hygienic www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15063
created on 2003-01-20
Chinese consumers favor non-GM food - Greenpeace poll China (January 20, 2003) - A majority of Chinese consumers polled by environmental group Greenpeace tend to prefer food that has not been genetically modified and demand a product labeling system to protect their right to choose, survey results showed www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15064
created on 2003-01-20
2003 farm exports to top $13bn Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - Farm and agri-industrial exports this year could reach $13 billion or an increase of 5.7 percent over last years, a study by the Thai Farmers Research Centre has said.
The Centre has projected an increase in www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15065
created on 2003-01-20
SET seeks beer, food and hospitality to lure investors Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - Kittirattatt Na-Ranong, president of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), is trying to persuade non-traditional companies, such as breweries, food and agricultural companies and those involved in the hospitality business, to www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15066
created on 2003-01-20
Tests on children to settle row over food additives UK (January 20, 2003) - Plans for food and drink trials involving three-year-old children are being drawn up by government advisers in an attempt to settle the long-running dispute over whether additives affect infants' behaviour.
Child health experts www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15067
created on 2003-01-20
Apec meeting to boost chances of FTA with US Bangkok (January 20, 2002) - Thailand and the US were urged to step up their efforts to reach a free trade deal by a group representing US companies in South East Asia. Ernest Z Bower, president of the US-Asean Business Council, said that after www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15068
created on 2003-01-20
Baby milk marketing 'breaks rules' Togo (January 20, 2003) - A study in the British Medical Journal says manufacturers of powdered baby milk substitutes are violating international codes when selling their product to West Africans. The research was carried out in Togo - a country without www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15069
created on 2003-01-20
California sues five grocers over mercury warnings US (January 20, 2003) - California's attorney general on Friday filed suit against five grocery chains including supermarket giants Kroger Co. and Albertson's Inc. for failing to properly warn consumers about the risk of mercury in fish.
Attorney www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15070
created on 2003-01-20
Philippines may file another case vs EU on tuna exports Philippines (January 20, 2003) - The Philippine government is contemplating on filing another case against the European Union should it fail to compensate local tuna canners for the preferential tariffs the 15-nation body granted tuna products of African, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15071
created on 2003-01-20
New call for liquor-duty revamp Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - As the government continues to look for ways to collect more taxes there have been fresh calls for an overhaul of liquor taxes to make the system "fair for all". Recent comments from Deputy Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15072
created on 2003-01-20
Fresh Mart in store wars Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - Fresh Mart International, a local chain of convenience stores, plans to expand its franchised outlets from 117 branches to 500 over the next three years. Fresh Mart managing director Narin Jiyarom said 2003 would be another www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15073
created on 2003-01-20
China to boost domestic consumption of deep-sea tuna China (January 20, 2003) - Deep-sea tuna, once a nutritious yet expensive marine food for Chinese consumers, will become more and more accessible to ordinary Chinese residents, said an official from the Fisheries Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture on www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15074
created on 2003-01-20
FAO to help with Thai fruit and veg standards Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry will receive technical assistance in the form of training and implementation of efficient control programmes from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to meet international food www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15075
created on 2003-01-20
US food supply seen vulnerable to attack US (January 20, 2003) - Bob Ivey, who manages a chain of hog farms in eastern North Carolina, takes extraordinary steps to keep his animals healthy.
Procedures for entering or leaving a pig house are almost like those for a nuclear power plant. www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15076
created on 2003-01-20
Mexico extends ban on US poultry products Mexico (January 20, 2003) - Mexico on Saturday extended its ban on U.S. poultry to include imports from Nevada after earlier prohibiting California imports because an exotic deadly poultry disease has been discovered in the two states, a top Mexican www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15077
created on 2003-01-20
Former Tyson managers plead guilty to immigrant smuggling US (January 20, 2003) - Two former Tyson Foods managers pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras into the United States to work at the poultry plants of the nation's largest meat producer.
The www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15078
created on 2003-01-20
Canada extends poultry import ban to Nevada Canada (January 20, 2003) - Canada has extended its ban on poultry imports to cover both California and Nevada, states where a deadly and highly contagious disease has been killing birds, an official said on Friday.
Canada issued a 14-day ban on www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15079
created on 2003-01-20
New tastes for favorite dessert Bangkok (January 20, 2003) - A small serving of black-grass jelly in light syrup and cracked ice is a welcome treat on a hot day. The jelly or chaokuay which originated in China, has long been a popular dessert in Thailand.
Now its producers www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15080
created on 2003-01-20
Ranchers keen on cloned beef await FDA decision US (January 20, 2003) - The five jet black bulls trotting around Dean Kephart's red-dirt ranch have the same wide rump, long neck and stubby horns.
In fact, the half-ton, half-grown adolescents are the same in every way - they're clones.
Red www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15081
created on 2003-01-20
Court reversal a defeat for vitamin makers US (January 20, 2003) - The world's largest vitamin manufacturers suffered a legal setback on Friday when a U.S. appeals court ruled that overseas customers have the right to press antitrust charges against them in U.S. courts even though they bought www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15082
created on 2003-01-20
Mainstream media giving wild salmon good publicity Canada (January 20, 2003) - The message that wild salmon is a healthier and more environmentally friendly choice is making headlines almost daily in the mainstream media. Most recently, the Los Angeles Times published a two-part feature against fish www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15083
created on 2003-01-20
More than 10% of perishable food labels fail to follow rules Japan (January 20, 2003) - More than 10% of perishable food labels failed to comply with laws and rules by dropping points such as place of origin, according to a government survey released Friday.
The Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15084
created on 2003-01-20
EU denies US charge of 'immoral' GM policy EU (January 20, 2003) - A transatlantic war of words over the European Union's moratorium on genetically modified crops heated up on Friday as top EU aides accused the United States of spreading rumors about Europe's aid policies.
In a letter to the www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15085
created on 2003-01-20
US farm group sponsoring Disney World farm exhibit US (January 20, 2003) - The largest U.S. farm group will sponsor an exhibit on modern-day agriculture at EPCOT, a park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, to give city-dwelling Americans an idea how food is raised, leaders said on Sunday.
Bob Stallman, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15086
created on 2003-01-20
India for common agriculture strategy at WTO India (January 20, 2003) - Amid conflicting view on WTO negotiations on agriculture, India Sunday declared it will strive for a common strategy with like-minded countries to mount pressure on advance nations to substantially cut farm subsidies besides www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15087
created on 2003-01-20
Malaysian paddy yields up 50% Malaysia (January 20, 2003) - Malaysian paddy farmers were enjoying a bumper harvest with yields increasing by some 50 percent in 2002, local press reported Sunday.
Deputy Agriculture minister Mohd Shariff Omar was quoted as saying that most farmers www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15088
created on 2003-01-20
Former rivals team up to boost organic java market US (January 20, 2003) - As the new president of the International Organic Coffee Association, Adam Teitelbaum is keenly interested in expanding sales of the product and generating interest in other organically produced food products.
But it's not just www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15089
created on 2003-01-20
Shanghai promises health care for farmers China (January 20, 2003) - The eastern metropolis of Shanghai has vowed to provide better and more affordable medical services to its 3 million farmers in the coming three years.
By 2005, a minimum of 95 percent of farmers will benefit from a health www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15090
created on 2003-01-20
Authorities chew over additive that helps gum retain its flavor EU (January 20, 2003) - The environment committee of the European Parliament meets next week to discuss a draft law permitting the use of two additives that promise to help chewing gum retain its flavour longer. Aspartame-acesulfame salt and sucralose www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15091
created on 2003-01-20
3rd case of BSE confirmed in Slovenia Slovenia (January 20, 2003) - Slovenia's veterinary authorities said Friday they have recorded the country's third case of mad cow disease.
A 32-month-old cow - previously slaughtered by its owner - tested positive for a disease in three www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15092
created on 2003-01-20
Nestle zooms in on pet food market South Africa (January 20, 2003) - Global food group Nestlé has big plans for the pet food market in SA and the rest of Africa. With only 20% of SA's 7-million dogs being fed food from commercial sources like Nestlé's Epol and Husky brands, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15093
created on 2003-01-20
Ivorian coffee trade fears 40% export losses Ivory Coast (January 20, 2003) - Conflict in Ivory Coast's western region could cost Africa's biggest robusta grower 40 percent of its coffee exports this season, buyers and exporters said on Friday. Unless security improved rapidly, some 100,000 www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15094
created on 2003-01-20
Uganda's banana production decreases Uganda (January 20, 2003) - The banana production in Uganda has fallen by 40 percent, a Ugandan scientist said here on Friday. According to a report by local daily the Monitor to be published on Saturday, Wilberforce Tumushemereire, head of Uganda' s www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15095
created on 2003-01-20
France considers sequestering carbon in farmlands France (January 20, 2003) - French Environment Minister Roselyne Bachelot says that carbon sequestration in agricultural lands could be used as part of a national program to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The announcement followed release of an official www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15096
created on 2003-01-20
Polish president vetoes controversial biofuel bill Poland (January 20, 2003) - Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski vetoed a controversial biofuels bill on Friday after it had been harshly criticised by auto industry and consumers groups.
The bill would impose a minimum level of so-called www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15097
created on 2003-01-20
Africa hopes for anti-wrinkle cash cow Mali (January 20, 2003) - Some of the poorest women in Africa have something that American women want. It's called shea butter, comes from West Africa and is said to have magic moisturising properties to create excellent anti-wrinkle creams, lip balm, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15098
created on 2003-01-20
Fry and drive UK (January 20, 2003) - According to Mike Hebson, the manager of Asda's store in Swansea, south Wales, there was no reason to be suspicious that sales of the company's cheapest bottles of cooking oil were running 20% higher than the previous year, way www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15099
created on 2003-01-20
In defence of foodies, Michelin challenges the Vatican France (January 20, 2003) - The Pope has yet to decide but the Michelin Man has already given a predictable verdict. Gourmandise – literally "greed" in French – is good.
Michelin produced the first of a new series of travellers' guides to France last www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15100
created on 2003-01-20
New rice breeds to provide more iron Bangkok (January 21, 2003) - Two newly developed rice varieties with high iron contents have the potential to reduce iron deficiency with anaemia (IDA) and related illnesses among the Thai population, local biotechnologists told The Nation yesterday.
www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15101
created on 2003-01-21
Durian and mangosteen exports to be boosted to 20% this year Bangkok (January 21, 2003) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has planned to increase export of durians and mangosteens to 20% of their total produces this year, according to a T.V. news report. Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Sora-ath www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15102
created on 2003-01-21
Don't just eat rice - rub it on Bangkok (January 21, 2003) - Pato Green Co Ltd, a local rice-processor, is looking to turn Thai jasmine-rice products into world brands by taking advantage of the country's position as a major rice-grower and the world's largest rice-exporter.
www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15103
created on 2003-01-21
