News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
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The World Bank has come under a barrage of criticism from rights groups, which allege its revised rules for granting loans of up to US$50bn a year to developing countries will have disastrous consequences for indigenous peoples and the poor.
New Zealand
The manuka honey labelling guidelines released last week by the New Zealand government are not accurate, the country’s oldest producer has argued.
Australian meat firm V&V Walsh has signed a deal with China’s Grand Farm, for a reported AU$1bn, according to Australian media.
Indian meat and poultry farmers are continuing to use antibiotics for inducing speedier growth of broiler chickens even though authorities have officially banned the practice, according to a new report.
India
The use of antibiotics in the poultry industry might largely be behind the growing number of Indians developing resistance to antibiotics, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has claimed in a new study.
A rundown of the number of food safety violators around the globe finds India and China are the countries with the highest number of offenses.
Sales slipped 6% and net profits 11% in Q2 for DSM’s human and animal nutrition arm as adverse currency movements, a slow US vitamins and omega-3 food supplements market and the Asian botulism infant formula scare affected earnings.