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News
How biofuels are shaping an industry
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| [03/03/2008] | | Editor's comment: Changing perspectives by Serena Lim | | For about 50 years, farmers in the EU and North America – some of the most productive in the world – have, in one shape or another, been paid subsidies to grow crops their domestic markets did not need; and then, with the aid of further subdidies, these surpluses have been exported around the world – or, in the worst of cases, simply stored up until unfit to use or destroyed. | |
| [08/01/2008] | | Editor's comment: Latest manoeuvres in biofuels | | While the oils and fats industry is much more than just biofuels, the latest political manoeuvres in this area are just too interesting to ignore.
First of all have been the headline grabbers such as the UN Special Rapporteur on The Right to Food describing the growing practice of converting food crops into biofuel as “a crime against humanity.”
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| [08/10/2007] | | CPM acquires Crown | | CPM, a leading supplier of process equipment and technology to the oilseed processing, food and feed industries, announced in August its acquisition of Crown Iron Works, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The deal includes both Europa Crown Ltd, based in Hull, UK and Crown’s majority joint venture interest in Crown Friendship Engineering Co, Wuhan, China. | |
| [08/10/2007] | | Cargill goes for bio-polyols | | With the opening of its BiOH polyols R&D centre – including a pilot production area - in Plymouth, Minnesota, USA, in August, Cargill says it has deepened its commitment to bio-based polyols development. “We have built a world class R&D centre to support the growth of a world class bio-based polyols business,” said Yusuf Wazirzada, business manager for bio-based urethane polyols at Cargill. | |
| [08/10/2007] | | Brazil’s soya moratorium – first year results | | At a meeting in Brazil in July, the GTS soyabean working group met to consider the progress – and next steps to be taken – in the Soy Moratorium, relating to soya plantings and deforestation in the Amazon Biome. | |
| [08/10/2007] | | Concerns mount over US food standards plea | | In the USA, a broad petition by the food industry for the Food & Drug Administration to relax its stringent food standards has begun to cause a backlash, according to recent press reports. | |
| [08/10/2007] | | Latest trans-free moves | | Associated Food Stores, an operator of grocery stores in eight states in the western USA, has become one of the latest to go trans-free, with the announcement in August that it had converted all 350 of its grocery delis to a zero-trans canola oil, Nutra-Clear from Bunge. | |
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