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Mānuka honey producers have been reaping the profits of selling pots of gold in recent years, but now there’s a surplus of non-mānuka varieties as beekeepers stockpile, hoping prices will recover. The NZ Herald’s Jane Phare looks at why the country is oozing with honey, in this Herald Premium article. It was always a Kiwi staple, honey on toast in the morning, a spoonful to help the medicine go down. It was sweet, yummy and affordable. Then, the so-called magical health benefits of mānuk...

Minister without portfolio named new Cabinet spokesman 02/18/2021 01:53 PM Taiwan’s new Cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping-cheng. CNA file photo Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) The Executive Yuan on Thursday named Minister without Portfolio Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) as the new Cabinet spokesman, three months after his predecessor resigned over a false comment he made that an award-winning restaurant was selling beef tainted with the animal feed additive ractopamine. Lo will continue to serve concurrently as ...

Taipei, Feb. 17 (CNA) Taiwan's Cabinet on Wednesday said it had approved over NT$10 billion (US$357.1 million) in funding to assist the domestic pork industry, amid concerns from local pig farmers about the government's decision to allow imports of U.S. pork containing the controversial feed additive ractopamine.

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From liquid gold to price crash: NZs honey hangover 12 minutes to read Jane Phare is a senior business reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjane.phare@nzme.co.nz Mānuka honey producers have been reaping the profits from selling pots of gold in recent years but now theres a glut of non-manuka varieties as beekeepers stockpile, hoping prices will recover. New Zealand has more than 918,000 beehives, and Jane Phare looks at why the country is oozing with honey and why Kiwis looked for somet...

Flawed by design: why finished product testing has its limits 3 François Bourdichon explains the limits of finished product testing when it comes to ensuring safe production and how we could enhance the current methods set out. While it is gladly accepted that a proactive approach is preferable to a reactive one, it is rarely duly implemented. A false sense of security does not help either. Finished product testing is certainly the most commonly recognised scheme to ensure the conformity of th...

AFIA secures the status and financial clout to promote US feed products abroad The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) US$200K for 2021 through the Market Access Program (MAP) to support increasing access to US feed products abroad. The move grants the trade association co-operator status for the first time, providing the AFIA the ability to independently manage the ...

Japan is looking to boost the exports and guarantee the food safety of one of its most iconic foods, the fermented soybean product natto, by working with the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to develop regional standards to govern its production in Asia. The CAC is the main part of the international Food Standards Programme run by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the Codex Alimentarius (Engl...

Trade negotiator against mandatory labeling of imported pork 12/14/2020 09:04 PM John Deng, head of the Cabinets Office of Trade Negotiations. CNA photo Dec. 14, 2020 Taipei, Dec. 14 (CNA) Taiwans top trade negotiator on Monday lauded the governments policy of setting stricter standards to cap the amount of residue of the livestock drug ractopamine in imported pork and encouraging businesses, instead of demanding them, to label their pork products as ractopamine-free. John Deng (鄧振中), hea...