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USA
NCBA pans Creekstone's media offensive
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association fired the latest salvo Monday in the increasingly pitched battle being played in the national media spotlight, throwing its support fully behind the Agriculture Department's decision not to allow Creekstone Farms to have all of its beef tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
FSIS to open new biosafety facility
Thanks to bioterrorism funding granted by Congress after the attacks of 9/11, the Department of Agriculture's Food Inspection Service will unveil a new $1.65 million Biosafety Level 3 facility in Athens, Ga., this week… The 2,000-square-foot facility located within USDA's Russell Research Center will be capable of conducting analyses on a wide range of potential pathogenic threats.
Canada
Officials draft plan for massive slaughter in British Columbia
Senior government officials met Monday to craft a plan to kill and dispose of 19 million birds at risk for bird flu in British Columbia, the Canadian Press reported.
Japan
Osaka prefectural police arrested meat magnate Mitsuru Asada for his alleged involvement in scamming about 640 million yen from a state beef buyback program.
Asada, 65, vice chairman of the Osaka Prefecture Meat Cooperative Association, was arrested Saturday after disappearing from his Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, home early Friday. Ten other suspects were also arrested over the two days, police said.
Russia
Gref Says Economy Grew 8% in First Quarter
The economy was believed to have grown 8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2004 despite faltering metals, timber and light industries, Interfax quoted Economy Minister German Gref as saying on Monday.
Gross domestic product grew 6.8 percent in the first three months of last year. The economy expanded 7.3 percent in full year 2003.
WTO Boss: Russians Need to Do More Work
Russia's preparations to join the World Trade Organization must include guarantees that it will immediately respect its commitments, WTO Director General Supachai Panitchpakdi said Monday. WTO governments want "to put Russia into a position that the moment it enters the WTO it can comply and enforce the rules that it has set up," Supachai told an investor conference in London. These include customs standards, intellectual property rights and anti-dumping duties, he said.
USA
NCBA pans Creekstone's media offensive
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association fired the latest salvo Monday in the increasingly pitched battle being played in the national media spotlight, throwing its support fully behind the Agriculture Department's decision not to allow Creekstone Farms to have all of its beef tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
FSIS to open new biosafety facility
Thanks to bioterrorism funding granted by Congress after the attacks of 9/11, the Department of Agriculture's Food Inspection Service will unveil a new $1.65 million Biosafety Level 3 facility in Athens, Ga., this week… The 2,000-square-foot facility located within USDA's Russell Research Center will be capable of conducting analyses on a wide range of potential pathogenic threats.
Canada
Officials draft plan for massive slaughter in British Columbia
Senior government officials met Monday to craft a plan to kill and dispose of 19 million birds at risk for bird flu in British Columbia, the Canadian Press reported.
Japan
Osaka prefectural police arrested meat magnate Mitsuru Asada for his alleged involvement in scamming about 640 million yen from a state beef buyback program.
Asada, 65, vice chairman of the Osaka Prefecture Meat Cooperative Association, was arrested Saturday after disappearing from his Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, home early Friday. Ten other suspects were also arrested over the two days, police said.
Russia
Gref Says Economy Grew 8% in First Quarter
The economy was believed to have grown 8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2004 despite faltering metals, timber and light industries, Interfax quoted Economy Minister German Gref as saying on Monday.
Gross domestic product grew 6.8 percent in the first three months of last year. The economy expanded 7.3 percent in full year 2003.
WTO Boss: Russians Need to Do More Work
Russia's preparations to join the World Trade Organization must include guarantees that it will immediately respect its commitments, WTO Director General Supachai Panitchpakdi said Monday. WTO governments want "to put Russia into a position that the moment it enters the WTO it can comply and enforce the rules that it has set up," Supachai told an investor conference in London. These include customs standards, intellectual property rights and anti-dumping duties, he said.