Archives for August 3, 2010

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Fonterra reports slide in auction prices

By Guy Montague-Jones

Prices at the Fonterra globalDairyTrade auction have fallen sharply for the second month running, prompting the dairy to warn farmers of a lower than forecast payout.

DuPont and USDA team up to tackle emerging food safety threat

By Rory Harrington

A new joint project between DuPont Qualicon and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) aims to develop testing to detect hard-to-identify strains of E.coli that are not regulated and have been causing increasing instances of food contamination.