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Asia Pacific

 

Agricultural-Export Disputes Stall U.S. Free-Trade Agreement with Australia Australia's bid for a free-trade agreement is moving on a slow track, even though Prime Minister John Howard's government is a staunch anti-terror ally and a key supporter of the United States in global trade talks.

IMF's Koehler Says Japan, Germany Must Help the U.S. Boost Economic Growth
The U.S. economy, beset with corporate scandals, a rising budget deficit and an overvalued dollar, needs help from Europe and Japan to power a world economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund's top official said. 

Australia beef exports in drought feed peril-govt
SYDNEY, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Australia's drought-hit beef industry was warned on Tuesday that its A$3.7 billion ($2 billion) a year export trade could be lost if producers fed livestock with waste crops contaminated by chemical residues.

Experts suspect BSE outbreak in Japan prior to Sept. 2001

TOKYO, Sept. 24 Kyodo - A farm ministry panel probing the outbreak of mad cow disease in Japan suspects the first cow confirmed infected in September last year might have contracted the disease by eating feed made of another infected, domestic cow, ministry officials said Tuesday.

Europe

 

Czechs Lift Spanish Ban
Pork and pig meat products from Spain can now be exported to Czech Republic.

 

Romanian Traceability
Beef traceability and labelling scheme to be introduced in Romania.

 

USA

More Stores To Carry Irradiated Beef
An official with the Minnesota Beef Council said there will be a concerted effort this fall to get more Minnesota-made irradiated beef into food stores across the country.

Study- Breeding Could Avert Mad Cow
In a study that could help develop cattle bred to resist mad cow disease, researchers showed in a laboratory experiment that a mutated protein may protect animals from the prion protein that causes the brain-destroying disorder.

 

Bioengineered Animals an Environmental Threat- Panel
Genetically engineered fish, insects, shellfish and other highly mobile animals pose a risk to the environment as they may escape from their labs or pens and displace species in the wild, an expert scientific panel said Tuesday.

 

CSPI slams meat industry on new kids' Website; here's how to respond
The Washington, D.C.-based activist group Center for Science in the Public Interest has launched a children's Website (Smart-Mouth.org) that aims to teach kids how "bite back" at fast food chains and food processors, according to a new release from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.