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Asia Pacific
New Food Safety Technology enters Japanese Beef Industry
* eMerge to introduce its VerifEYE Technology, Potentially Impacting Meat Safety In Japan's Elite Beef Industry * Portable Solo(TM) Units Purchased For Distribution To Japanese Meat Processing Industry SEBASTIA...
China Seeks to Defuse U.S. Trade Battle: Premier Says His Nation's Economic Growth Helps, Not Harms Americans
BEIJING-- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his government are hoping to manage a simmering trade battle with the United States by challenging the view that China's economic growth is coming at the direct expense of American jobs. To the contrary, according to the premier, swelling trade with China is an ingredient in U.S. prosperity.
Americas
Canadian farm revenues plunge after mad cow
Canadian farmers' revenues sank in the first three quarters of the year, mainly because of a single case of mad cow disease announced in May that threw markets into chaos, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.
UPDATE 1-Canada provinces offer cash to ease cattle glut
Cattle producers in Canada's westernmost provinces, their finances dwindling after the mad cow scare, can apply for government aid aimed at helping them dispose of older animals that are now virtually unmarketable with the world's borders closed to them.
Europe
Divided EU to make second attempt to lift GMO ban
EU countries will soon take a second bite at lifting a five-year ban on new biotech crops and products, renewing their debate on a type of sweetcorn that may provide the key to unlocking a bitter transatlantic trade row.
Wales hotbed for illegal meat trade
Speakers at a conference sponsored the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in Cardiff, Wales, told the audience that Wales was becoming a hotbed for the illegal production of smokies -- an ethnic delicacy produced by blow-torching the skin of a sheep or goat that gives the meat a charred flavor.
Irish Beef Campaign in France
Bord Bia targets 1,400 supermarkets in three French regions in a drive to put Irish Beef back on the French shelf.
Eighth case of mad cow disease prompts Czech officials to cull 1,100 cattle
Test results showed that a four-year-old cow from a southeastern farm had contracted bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly referred to as mad cow, the eighth confirmed case among cattle in the Czech Republic, said a spokesman for the veterinary administration.
USA
COOL Delay Angers Farm Group
National Farmers Union blames meatpackers and food processors for two-year delay in mandatory label implementation.
Deal Backs Off Food Import Labeling
Controversial rules requiring country-of-origin labels on foreign meat and produce will be postponed for at least two years under a deal by congressional negotiators.
Asia Pacific
New Food Safety Technology enters Japanese Beef Industry
* eMerge to introduce its VerifEYE Technology, Potentially Impacting Meat Safety In Japan's Elite Beef Industry * Portable Solo(TM) Units Purchased For Distribution To Japanese Meat Processing Industry SEBASTIA...
China Seeks to Defuse U.S. Trade Battle: Premier Says His Nation's Economic Growth Helps, Not Harms Americans
BEIJING-- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his government are hoping to manage a simmering trade battle with the United States by challenging the view that China's economic growth is coming at the direct expense of American jobs. To the contrary, according to the premier, swelling trade with China is an ingredient in U.S. prosperity.
Americas
Canadian farm revenues plunge after mad cow
Canadian farmers' revenues sank in the first three quarters of the year, mainly because of a single case of mad cow disease announced in May that threw markets into chaos, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.
UPDATE 1-Canada provinces offer cash to ease cattle glut
Cattle producers in Canada's westernmost provinces, their finances dwindling after the mad cow scare, can apply for government aid aimed at helping them dispose of older animals that are now virtually unmarketable with the world's borders closed to them.
Europe
Divided EU to make second attempt to lift GMO ban
EU countries will soon take a second bite at lifting a five-year ban on new biotech crops and products, renewing their debate on a type of sweetcorn that may provide the key to unlocking a bitter transatlantic trade row.
Wales hotbed for illegal meat trade
Speakers at a conference sponsored the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in Cardiff, Wales, told the audience that Wales was becoming a hotbed for the illegal production of smokies -- an ethnic delicacy produced by blow-torching the skin of a sheep or goat that gives the meat a charred flavor.
Irish Beef Campaign in France
Bord Bia targets 1,400 supermarkets in three French regions in a drive to put Irish Beef back on the French shelf.
Eighth case of mad cow disease prompts Czech officials to cull 1,100 cattle
Test results showed that a four-year-old cow from a southeastern farm had contracted bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly referred to as mad cow, the eighth confirmed case among cattle in the Czech Republic, said a spokesman for the veterinary administration.
USA
COOL Delay Angers Farm Group
National Farmers Union blames meatpackers and food processors for two-year delay in mandatory label implementation.
Deal Backs Off Food Import Labeling
Controversial rules requiring country-of-origin labels on foreign meat and produce will be postponed for at least two years under a deal by congressional negotiators.