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UK- The Food Standards Agency formally notified the Association for the Cannabinoid Industry (ACI) that its applications for cannabidiol (CBD) distillate and isolate are within the scope of authorization as a novel food. The FSA assessed the toxicology safety data ACI submitted in 2022 and confirmed that it is an appropriate study addressing the safety concerns held by the FSA…
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SAUDI ARABIA – The International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) held the IAOM Mideast & Africa Regional Forum 2023, where ‘the essentials of grain storage’ was a main highlight. IAOM, founded in 1896, remains instrumental in providing opportunities for millers and other players in the grains industry to network and devise ways of improving the grains industry in the Middle…
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GLOBAL – Discovered in Kenya in 1921, African Swine Fever (ASF) has remained a major threat for the pork industry, decimating millions of pigs whenever it strikes leaving many farmers and pork processors to incur losses of untold proportion. Last year alone, analysts estimated that in China, the world’s largest pig producer, 200 million pigs die or be culled in…
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UK – PepsiCo, Inc, in partnership with UK’s National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), has opened a new research lab dedicated to testing oats from its innovative R&D agricultural science programs. The new laboratory is located at the NIAB plant science research organization in Cambridge and will be used by PepsiCo expert crop researchers to test and analyze a pool…
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