Tougher food safety checks on Brazilian imports prevented meat and poultry contaminated with salmonella and E.coli from entering Europe, according to a senior EU official. European health commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said reinforced control checks carried out at EU boarders led to
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Holidaymakers are unwittingly eating dog meat on the Indonesian island of Bali, according to an Animals Australia investigation, raising questions about food safety and animal abuse. Tourists are being “duped” into buying satay meat sticks by local dog meat gangs who
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Fast-growing broiler chickens are developing wooden breast syndrome that’s making meat tough and chewy in what has become a growing problem for the poultry sector.A quarter of white-feathered broiler birds processed in the US may suffer from wooden breast syndrome,
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MS Swaminathan , father of the Green Revolution that changed farming in India, weighs in on fixing the agri crisis. Excerpts from an email interview: We seem to have come a full circle from the Green Revolution, with farmers even
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It wasn’t that long ago that U.S. farmers like Brian Marshall had few choices about where and when to sell their crops, which meant taking whatever price was offered at the local grain elevator during harvest season. Today, the Missouri
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Second Black Sea-Crop Tour successfully completed Back at base after successfully and safely completing the second Black Sea Crop Tour of the season. We drove 2,400km through Russia and Ukraine assessing the condition and likely harvest prospects for the main
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Dow Chemical, DuPont confirm U.S. antitrust clearance for merger Jun. 15, 2017 4:11 PM ET|By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor DuPont (NYSE:DD) and Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) confirm an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice that will permit the companies
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Bill S-224 An Act respecting payments made under construction contracts (the Canada Prompt Payment Act) unanimously passed third reading in the Senate of Canada on May 4, 2017. The Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada (MCAC) and the National Trade Contractors
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