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Genetic Analysis Shows E. Coli Strain Is New, Highly Infectious

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Ahighly infectious new strain of E. coli bacteria is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning that is spreading from Germany across Europe, scientists said on June 2, raising alarm bells worldwide. Experts in China, part of a global network of laboratories racing to understand the sickness that has so far killed 17 people, said
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EU Lawmakers Reject Farm Policy Budget Cut

The European Union’s farm budget should be kept at least at its current level when the policy is reformed from 2014, an influential committee of EU lawmakers said May 25. The common agricultural policy (CAP) budget is currently worth about 55 billion euros ($77.35 billion) a year, or around 40 per cent of the bloc’s
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for May. 12, 2011

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Viterra opens Montreal office:Canada’s biggest grain handler, Viterra Inc. has opened a marketing office in Montreal following a deal last month to run the grain terminal owned by Montreal Port Authority. The marketing office will increase Viterra’s ability to buy crops and sell them to buyers in Canada, the United States and Europe, the company
Crops

New Questions Being Raised About Benefit Of Biofuels

Anew report raising additional doubts about the green credentials of biofuels has stalled investment in Europe and threatens the future of some producers. After a two-year investigation, the European Commission has decided that the complex issue of “indirect land use change” can lessen carbon savings from biofuels. The concept is relatively new, and still being
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Mercosur Trade Deal To Cost EU Farmers

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European farmers could lose more than three billion euros in annual revenue by 2020 under any free trade deal between the European Union and Latin America’s Mercosur region, a study for the EU’s executive showed. The deepest losses would be felt by beef producers in Ireland, Britain and France, hit by a predicted 200,000-tonne annual
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Reformers Left Isolated In EU Farm Policy Debate

European Union governments calling for far-reaching reform of the bloc’s farm policy from 2014 were left isolated earlier this month after 20 EU countries signed a joint declaration opposing radical change. The declaration by EU farm ministers was the last chance for governments to spell out their priorities for the reform of the common agricultural
Livestock

EU Wrestles With Issue Of Food From Cloned Animals

European Union governments and lawmakers remained deadlocked on how to regulate the production and sale of food from cloned animals, following all-night talks in Brussels that ended recently. EU sources said the remaining sticking point was a demand by lawmakers in the European Parliament for a full EU ban on the sale of food derived
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Britain Adds Voice To Criticism Of EU GM Crop Plans

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Britain has become the latest European Union country to raise serious doubts over proposals to let EU governments decide individually whether to grow or ban genetically modified (GM) crops. Several large EU countries including France, Germany and Spain have already criticized draft legislation tabled by the EU executive in July, which would allow governments to
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EU Executive Pledges Curbs On Commodity Speculators

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The European Union’s execut ive announced plans Feb. 2 to tackle speculation in commodities with new controls on trading to stop runaway prices for grain and energy. Spiralling food prices, which helped spark deadly riots that brought down the ruling regime in Tunisia, have prompted Middle Eastern neighbours to stockpile grain. Rising commodity prices have
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Most EU States Back Trace GM In Food Imports

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Amajority of European Union countries want to allow tiny traces of genetically modified (GM) material in food imports for human consumption, according to an internal EU briefing paper seen by Reuters Jan. 21. In October, the European Commission proposed new rules that would allow up to 0.1 per cent of unapproved GM material in imports

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