Food firms want binding rules for safe imports
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Top U.S. food companies, worried recent import scares may turn away customers, launched a plan on Tuesday to add teeth to existing safety guidelines and increase funding for bare-bones federal regulators.
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The U.S Food and Administration's plan to consolidate laboratories used for testing food and other products would make it even more difficult for the understaffed agency to protect Americans from unsafe food, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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By Elizabeth John  A GROUP of industry players and non-governmental organisations have come up with guidelines that could help responsible palm oil firms certify that their products are made with respect for the environs, including wildlife, workers and local communities.
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The Food and Drug Administration will publish draft guidelines today that would encourage companies to submit voluntary safety evaluations of bioengineered food crops that sometimes
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The lowering of trade barriers has pushed food companies to scour the globe for the cheapest ingredients to compete in a global marketplace.
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Food safety officials were last night trying to establish how 23 tonnes of organic free-range chicken sold from stores around Britain and Ireland contained a cancer-causing chemical banned in livestock since 1995.
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Chinese food safety officials are calling for more stringent inspections and testing of exports, saying international alarm over the quality of its products is threatening China's image and relations with other countries.
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By Hu Yinan  China needs to "recognize" its food safety situation and take effective measures to safeguard imports and exports, a top official said.  "At present, food safety issues have attracted wide attention globally.
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Two Asian delicacies are the subject of a simmering debate pitting merchants who like to store them at room temperature for hours against food safety regulators who worry the practice could allow bacteria to build up.
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Lobbyists and members of Congress have managed to hold off the enforcement of a five-year-old law that required country-of-origin labeling on meat, fish and produce.
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Consumer advocates are raising concerns about whether federal restrictions meant to stop the import of tainted Chinese seafood are strong enough.
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New York Cityâs new rules for menu labels at chain restaurants have set off a food fight among the nationâs obesity experts.
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By Jiang Wei  Chinese chemical enterprises should prepare for a new EU regulation on imports of chemicals as soon as possible, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
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The rules controlling the trade in many animal and plant species may change as delegates from around the world meet in Thailand.
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The competition watchdog on Friday said it was proposing a series of measures designed to ensure British supermarkets face a real competitive environment.
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Setting ground rules for competition is one thing, but seeking to determine outcomes is another. In European antitrust, there is more a doctrine of âreining inâ powerful companies than in the United States.
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After more than 30 years of deliberation, federal regulators have proposed requiring the alcoholic-beverage industry to put nutrition and alcohol-content labels on their containers, setting off the equivalent of a barroom brawl among makers of beer, wine and liquor.