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Danes expanding
The leading Danish pig and cattle slaughterhouse Danish Crown wants to take several slaughterhouses in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom in the future. In order for the Cooperative Group intends to respond to the desire "large international supermarket chains" who want reportedly refer Danish Crown meat from producers in their respective home countries. of this announcement in September relative surprisingly, the deputy CEO of Danish Crown.
Even in mid-August, Danish Crown had announced a new strategic plan for the three-year period 2003 / 04 to 2005 / 06, which provided only the acquisition of several meat product establishments in the three neighboring countries mentioned and in the Central and Eastern European candidate countries. According to the latest statements of thousands of foreign pig producers should provide their animals to new slaughterhouses Danish Crown in the future.
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Study points directly related to
Eating large amounts of saturated fat or red meat may increase the risk of getting breast cancer. This is the conclusion a literature study by the Ontario Cancer Institute [www.oci.utoronto.ca/institutes/html/oci/oci.html] has come.
The scientists evaluated 45 individual studies to fat in the diet and breast cancer. The data from 580.000 25.000 healthy women and patients were analyzed with respect to known and potential risk factors. In a first step, those women were compared, which took the most and the least fat. should be Determined to what extent the amount of fat in the diet was associated with a disease.
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New French research has underlined the high nutritional value of rapeseed oil and can be used to recommend this food for the prevention of cardiac / circulatory diseases and sub-functions of the brain and sense organs. A
uf a joint event of the French trade association for oil and protein crops and the National Agricultural Research Institute has introduced a series of tests for cardiac risk in heart disease 150 600 people before participants from medical and nutritional science. According to the researchers whether in margarine succeeded on rapeseed oil basis solely by the change of diet of butter and edible oils of different origin, to reduce mortality from heart / circulatory failure to 70 percent and the risk of non-fatal heart attacks to 75 percent.
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The price high was followed by the correction
How Successes and Failures to some pig farmers like to say in the face of price movements on slaughter pigs market since mid-August. Because after the end of the summer holidays, the prices initially rose sharply, and the Northwest price rose until the middle of September 1,49 euros per kilogram; which was the highest level this year.
was caused by the unexpected sharp rise by the extreme summer 2003. Because the hot temperatures made the pigs grow more slowly, and the losses piled up. This caused a drop in supply, both in Germany and in the EU.
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Profitability has improved
The local poultry Mäster achieve both for chicken and turkey for higher prices than 2002 for several months. For chicken, the price curve exceeds since mid-June the previous line, the level of 2001 is however still missing. In mid-October were the producers of 1,5 kilogram chicken average 0,74 euros per kilogram liveweight; 2003 start of the year there had been only 0,70 euros and a year ago 0,71 euros.
On turkey market, the current revenues not only exceed the previous year's level, here you have in the meantime also the line of 2001 approached again. Recently got the turkey fattening for 18,5 kilogram taps in the Middle 1,08 euros per kilogram, ten cents more than in January and eleven cents more than a year ago. The improvement in profitability is limited by the recent increase in costs for feed.
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The Baden-Württemberg food control department provides information on the results of the current special control program for pesticides:
The Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office Stuttgart (CVUA), commissioned as a priority facility, examined a total of 432 samples for residues of pesticides in tomatoes, stone fruit, soft fruit and table grapes with a further comprehensive control program.
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TransFair pulled today at ANUGA the interim results for the introduction of the new uniform international Fairtrade label. "Fair Trade is the good side of globalization. Any consumer can now affect when shopping at home or on vacation, the lives of thousands of small farmers positively in developing countries, "stressed Dieter Overath, CEO of TransFair.
Already 14 percent of Germans know the new Fairtrade mark until the end of the year more than 50 percent of sealed products will be migrated to the new logo. In ten European countries, the Fair Trade products to the modern, distinctive characters can be recognized.
4,5 million producers and their families in 45 countries benefit from Fair Trade with the seal. In recent years, the international umbrella organization Fairtrade Labelling Organisations (FLO) was able to record each 20 percent growth. 600 17 dealers in consumer countries generated approximately 2002 million euros with the Fairtrade products in 300. "Of these, the producer groups have received via 40 million euros in additional revenue," said Luuk Zonnefeld, FLO-CEO, before the numbers of the world's largest Sozialzertifizierers.
In Germany TransFair can also announce increases in the first half of the year 2003: Most rose paragraphs of orange juice and sweets, but also tea and honey were increasingly in demand. Only the TransFair coffee recorded a slight decline, but compared to the overall market roasted coffee were considerably less frequent.
"We are hopeful that we can work with enhanced campaign yet to stop the negative trend in the roasted coffee this year," said Overath at Anuga. The wide-ranging involvement in the Fair Week confirmed the positive forecast. Furthermore, TransFair has significantly increased staffing in the second half 2003 in marketing. "In the areas of large consumption and new product launches, we will be very active in the coming months," said Overath. The presence at Anuga TransFair maintains contacts with partners from trade and industry, and hopes for a strengthened commitment to the distribution and marketing of fair trade products.
Prominent guests at TransFair booth during the Anuga were Consumer Protection Minister Renate Künast, who. In their opening tour to strengthen a glass TransFair tea enjoyed The Nobel Peace Prize Dr. José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste handed Dieter Overath and Luuk Zonneveld a Tais - the friendship scarf from East Timor - for their commitment to Fair Trade.
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The FRoSTA AG in the first 9 2003 months a loss of 4,4 EBIT € million (€ 6,6 million net loss). One of the reasons is probably the launch of a brand concept ( "FRoSTA Reinheitsgebot") in a difficult market environment. The substantial advertising expenses related faced insufficient income. Although since August 2003 again positive results and FRoSTA for 4. Quarter even again expected profits, is to discover how to calculate not break even for the full year 2003.
FRoSTA react inter alia with a modified organizational structure. The Board of Management will be partially renewed. Dr. Braumann, the current CEO, will retire from the Board by mutual agreement. The Supervisory Board Chairman Dirk Ahlers returns to the board and its chairman. His son Felix Ahlers is appointed to the Board. The other board members Dr. Stephan Hinrichs and Jürgen Marggraf remain in their posts.
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Secretary feels misunderstood
"I am surprised at the press response to an article in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, in which I spoke to the necessary budgetary savings in the agriculture budget and the restructuring of agricultural policy," said the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Dr. Gerald Thalheim. In the literal quotations only known positions were reproduced. So he had courted understanding of the inevitable savings because subsidies would be reduced.
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Source: Meat Science 58 (2001), 389-393
The oxidation of myoglobin and fatty acids is, in addition to microbial processes, the main cause of quality degradation of fresh pork. Alpha - tocopherol delays the oxidation of fatty acids in fresh pork. Different results exist on the effect of alpha - tocopherol on the color stability of pork.
In the following two papers report on a method that a few years ago in the literature found a lot of attention, but was rejected in practice impractical. It is the tenderization by hydrodynamic shock waves that were triggered by the explosion of small amounts of explosives. Meanwhile, a new method was invented by a plasma to generate shock waves, to get away from the explosives.
