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FAO Says Biofuels Threatening Food Security

...will have to cope with a nine percent rise on food imports and the poorest, which will import most, will pay an extra 10 percent", the FAO report said Thursday. It noted that prices of secondary cereals and vegetable oils used to produce biofuels have gone up while meat and milk product rose by 46 percent ...

Hong Kong Warning on 'unsafe' Toothpaste

...d States has started inspecting Chinese toothpaste imports and Singapore has banned three Chinese brands. The customs department said the three brands, which are believed to come from China, were "suspected of being unsafe for daily use." "The customs and excise department had approached the sole agents of t...

China Admits Fake Blood Protein Used in Drips

...t to turn the tables by declaring that some recent imports of raisins from the US did not meet its safety sta...n Union have expressed concern over food and drug imports from China, and have pressed Beijing to improve its oversight....

FDAs Failure Urges It to Reassess Its Policies

...ucts from such contamination. Over a decade, food imports have tripled, while the FDA budget has increased marginally. As a result the number of inspectors has dwindled and as little as one per cent of imported shipments are now subject to official checks. The FDA is exploring ways to overhaul how it inspe...

Steps To Prevent Out-Break Of Bird Flu

.... A system has been put in place since 2004 to ban imports from countries reporting Avian Influenza. 18. In view of the outbreak in the neighboring countries, the following measures have been taken:- a. Ban on import of all livestock, products related to poultry and swine from the affected countries. b...

Abbott Offers Aluvia to Thailand in Return for Compulsory Licensing Halt

...l halt its plans for a compulsory license to allow imports of a generic version from India, and will sell it to the Thai government for $1000 a year. Abbott has been in dispute with the Thai government since January 2007, when plans for a compulsory license to import lopinavir/ritonavir were first announc...

Pigs Quarantined in US Farm Following Melamine Contamination

...tional investigations have traced a total of eight imports from China dating back to July 2006. Distributions to a total of five pet food manufacturers within seven locations in the U.S. have also been identified. Voluntary recalls continue to take place by several manufacturers who have discovered the c...

Two More Pet Food Products Recalled in US

...mpany in China. The FDA has blocked further gluten imports from the company. Gluten brings elasticity and chewiness to baked productsPet food manufacturers have voluntarily recalled more than 100 brands of dog and cat food across the nation since March 16 this year. Although many different types of pet ...

Africa Challenged To Produce Its Own Generic Drugs

...oing to produce these drugs." At present Africa imports truck loads of low-cost generic drugs from India and China, yet such an agreement is bound to be shaky, as most of these drugs are being subjected to patent laws, as of late. According to a WHO report, 37 out of 46 African countries have pharmac...

Drug Uses Up Water in Yemeni Capital, People Must Relocate

...of underground reserves is nearing. The country imports most of its food, largely because it has too little water to feed itself. Yemenis have about one-fiftieth as much water per head as the world average. The minister for water and the environment, Dr Abdulrahman al-Eryani, is an agricultural enginee...

Global Warming Could Increase Exotic Fish Poisoning

... 1970s to more than 250 a year. Hong Kong, which imports much of its seafood, went from fewer than 10 cases annually in the 1980s to a few hundred now. Initial signs of poisoning occur within six hours after consumption of toxic fish and include numbness and tingling, which may spread to the extremities,...

Bird Flu Scare in Tripura

...s it in close proximity to Tripura, the state also imports chicks and eggs from Bangladesh. In the wake of the scare, the Family Welfare Preventive Medicine and the Animal Resource Development departments have jointly taken all possible steps to tackle avian flu. This is according to ARD director Narayan C...

Brazilian Boost for Bird Flu Vaccines

... produce their own vaccines, instead of relying on imports from developed countries. There are currently no vaccines for H5N1 avian influenza available. The WHO says that vaccines are under development in several countries, but because a vaccine needs to closely match the pandemic virus in circulation, lar...

Bird Flu Once Again in Afghanistan

...being adopted. Last month Afghanistan had banned imports of poultry mainly from Pakistan, Turkey Britain, and Indonesia when bird flu was discovered in these countries. Afghanistan reported its first cases of H5N1 in March and April last year in Kabul and in the provinces of Kapisa, Logar and Nangarhar. ...

The Philippine Government's Half-priced Medicine Program to Be Expanded

...ousewife Malou Hormigos. The PITC also regularly imports low cost medicine from India. "India sells to the poor world so they are reputable," the president pointed out stressing that cheaper medicine does not mean bad quality. The president assured that commonly used medicine such as those taken for co...

Hong Kong to Tighten Food Safety Laws

...ially cancer-causing substances. Freshwater fish imports to the city of 6.8 million from neighbouring Guangdong province have been halted after some were found to contain the carcinogenic substance malachite green. Eggs imported from China have also been found to contain a potentially dangerous red dye i...

China Issues Bird Flu Alert Following Outbreak in South Korea

...hile, Hong Kong has also suspended poultry product imports from South Korea. Source-IANS...

Japan Stops Import of Poultry from S. Korea

...As a precaution, we decided to temporarily suspend imports of South Korean poultry", Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki of Japan said. The Japan External Trade Organization also reported that in 2005, the country had imported nearly 318 tons of chicken from South Korea. It is not yet known if the bir...

Saudi Arabia for Enhancing Health Sector Ties with India

...ian Ministry of Health, said his country currently imports drugs worth $12 million from India and is looking forward to increase the amount. Speaking about India's health tourism potential, Saleh Nin Mohammed Al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to India, said: "India is a beautiful country and a lot of ou...

India Free From Bird Flu

..., said India has requested Japan to resume poultry imports as the country is now free from bird flu. 'We have started exporting to Middle East and expect the exports to pick up from December,' he added. Good times ahead for poultry farmers! Source-google PRI/ASH/L...

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