Monday, 7 December 2015

Global Agriculture, Food & Nutrition updates - 08Dec'15 !

1. Each year as many as 600 million, or almost one in 10 people in the world, fall ill after consuming contaminated food, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
2. Poland occupies 46% of central Europe’s supplements markets that will grow collectively at 7.6% annually until 2020 with improved economic indicators, analyst PMR has said.
3. Saline water overflows from Atlantic ocean a real cause of concern to the Farmlands of Senegal.
4. Food and drink businesses with a turnover of more than £36M a year should prepare now to comply with the new Modern Slavery Act or risk “disaster”, warns law firm Roythornes, after NestlĂ© revealed plans to stamp out labour abuses in its supply chain.
5. The world packaging machinery market will grow by 4.9% over the next three years to reach €40.3bn in 2018, according to Ucima, the Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Association.
6. The European Commission has launched an IT system which will be used to exchange information on cross-border violations of EU food chain rules such as food fraud.
7. Monsanto urges Philippines to embrace GM and biotech to avoid food crisis.

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