Archives for January 10, 2005

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UK licensing agreement to up dairy cattle health

A leading animal sciences group has sold the gene rights of a new breed of dairy cattle to a UK distributor which it claims will give farmers the opportunity to increase their milk yields as well as prevent the proliferation of cattle diseases such as...

GM foods 'as safe as plant-derived,' finds EU group

Brussels addresses the issue of consumer cynicism and fear of agricultural biotechnology in European citizens, setting up a thematic network on the safety risk assessment of genetically modified food crops, the Entransfood project, in order to...

New EU commissioner underlines food safety priority

Markos Kyprianou, the new Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection in Brussels, will continue in his predecessor David Byrne's foodsteps, pushing to maintain high levels of food safety in the EU.

Cracks begin to show in American oak

Following a two year operating loss, Oeneo has been forced to sell its Bloomfield oak stave mill in Iowa. Is American oak too 'woody' for the wine industry, asks Kim Hunter Gordon.