Monday, July 14th, 2008
Brazil's national federation of industry has lowered its forecast for the country's economic growth this year from 5.0 percent to 4.7 percent, local media reported Sunday.
Due to surging food prices around the world, Brazil's inflat ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
The Center for Food Safety of Hong Kong Friday advised people not to eat a batch of "Wild Alaskan Smoked Salmon Nova Lox" that might have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
"The alert followed the detection of Listeria m ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Costco Wholesale Corp said June sales rose more than expected as shoppers facing soaring gasoline and food costs used federal tax rebates to buy discounted clothes and groceries.
Sales at stores open at least a ye ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations will provide more emergency relief aid supplies to storm survivors in two cyclone-hard-hit regions, the state newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday.
The ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Russia's promised food aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been shipped to a border city in the DPRK, the official KCNA news agency reported Wednesday.
The aid, whose quantity was unspecified in the report, a ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government gazetted Friday the Food Business(Amendment) Regulation 2008 which requires no live poultry be kept at retail outlets overnight to protect public health and further reduce the risk pose ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has continued its investigations into Mexican tomatoes to determine if a salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 500 people in the U.S. originated in Mexico, U.S. authorities said Monday. ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
The impact of the rising global food and oil prices on the economies of Member States of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) are among the issues that will dominate the agenda of the mid-year Summit of ECOWAS heads of stat ...
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