One of the world’s largest food companies, Brazil-based BRF, has announced the acquisition of a new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This move is expected to accelerate the company’s international operations, especially in south-east Asia and the Middle...
The European Commission has welcomed Thailand lifting its longstanding ban on bovine product imports from European Union (EU) member states, but has complained that Bangkok is insisting on expensive inspections for approved exporters.
The European Commission (EC) is in discussion with Thailand to potentially lift the ban on fresh chicken at the end of June 2012, after eight years of suspended trade.
A biotechnology boom will soon hit Thailand as the
authorities move towards removing a ban on the field testing of
biotech products, according to a new report.
Thailand's chicken processors say they will soon recover their
export sales, badly damaged by the bird flu crisis, by offering
their international customers premium, cooked products.
Kikkoman, the world's number one soy sauce brewer, sets its sights
on Thailand investing over one billion yen on a new plant for
processed food products.
Experts in Asia are predicting that the bird flu outbreak is
threatening to evolve into a situation similar to that of the
recent SARS outbreak, as the disease appears to show no signs of
abating. Meanwhile in Europe strict measures...
Following the Avian 'flu crisis in Asia, a major UK food retailer
is already promising its customers that all its chicken products
can be fully traced. Are European consumers getting jittery about
chicken, and what effect could...
The Ministry of Science and Technology in Thailand has declared
2003 the year of biotechnology with the aim of improving the
quality of certain food products.
The Food Standards Agency is to start a precautionary testing
programme for nitrofurans in shrimps and prawns from Vietnam,
Myanmar and Thailand, and poultry meat from Thailand, the agency
reported this week.
Intermittent iron supplementation could replace daily iron
supplements for reducing anaemia in developing countries, report
researchers from Prince of Songkla University in Thailand.
Due to a lack of raw materials to supply food manufacturers at
home, Japanese food producers are showing an interest in their Thai
counterparts, claims a report this week in the Thai publication,
Business Day.
