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European Union - The latest Eurobarometer survey on animal cloning for food production

16-Nov-2010
Cloning animals for food products is even less popular than GM food with 18 per cent of Europeans in support. In only two countries – Spain and the Czech Republic – does animal cloning attract the support of three in ten. This contrasts with 14 countries in which support for GM food is above 30 per cent. Is this an indication of broader public anxieties about biotechnology and food? The idea of the ‘natural superiority of the natural’ captures many of the trends in European food production, such as enthusiasm for organic food, local food, and worries about food-miles. And if ‘unnaturalness’ is one of the problems associated with GM food, it appears to be an even greater concern in the case of animal cloning and food products.

United Kingdom - The impact of feed costs on the English pig industry

15-Nov-2010
The biggest and most important single cost for pig producers is feed; on average it accounts for almost 60% of total production costs. It is no exaggeration to state that global rises in the price of feed are the biggest threat to the sustainability of English high welfare pig production and processing.

Canada - Cutting edge technology to improve food safety

10-Nov-2010
A new pilot plant research facility that opened at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Guelph Food Research Centre (GFRC) will help Canadian farmers and consumers benefit from advances in food safety technologies. The upgrades to the facility were funded by the $1.15 million investment under the Modernizing Federal Laboratories Initiative of the Government of Canada's Economic Action Plan.

India opens food testing lab

08-Nov-2010
] India has inaugurated the food testing laboratory of the National Meat & Poultry Processing Board to ensure supply of quality and safe meat and poultry products.

Glycerol and swine feeding

Glycerol is a byproduct of the industry of bio-diesel fuels, representing roughly 10% of the crude oil used for that purpose. Therefore, large quantities are expected to be available in the near future for the different markets that can have a potential interest for it.

Testing time for stockfeed

04-Nov-2010
Technology commercialised as AusScan by Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) is successfully using new Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIR) tests to improve the transparency of grain quality between buyers and sellers.