News

• UN Committee recommends new dietary intake limits for mercury
  July 2, 2003
  Experts revise down methylmercury limits in light of new data
• Canada to ban SRMs from all feed
  July 2, 2003
  International inspection team has recommended that Specified Risk Materials (SRMs) be removed entirely from the food chain.
• Fishmeal production outlook for 2003 not encouraging
  July 1, 2003
  Fishmeal production outlook for 2003 is not encouraging says new report from iffo
• Good progress to lift fishmeal ban
  June 30, 2003
  Good progress is being made in meeting EU Commission conditions for lifting the ban on the use of fishmeal in ruminant feed
• Call for Papers for Hawaii Aquaculture Feed Conference
  June 25, 2003
  “Alternative Protein Sources in Aquaculture Feed” is topic of AIP conference
• Review of white shrimp impacts (P. vannemei) in the Asia Pacific region
  June 25, 2003
  FAO and NACA are to undertake an assessment and documentation of the introduction and positive and negative impacts of L. vannamei (and P.stylirostris) in the Asia Pacific region.
• McDonald's calls for phase-out of growth-promoting antibiotics
  June 25, 2003
  McDonald's Corporation today announced plans that call for its suppliers worldwide to phase-out of animal growth promotion antibiotics that are used in human medicine.
• Full Codex meeting to tackle issues that will impact aquaculture
  June 25, 2003
  Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) will meet in Rome, Italy from June 30 to July 7, 2003 with a weighty agenda that includes numerous issues that hold significance for aquaculture.
  
• Independent oceans commission calls for immediate reforms
  June 25, 2003
  Scientists, fishermen, conservationists, elected leaders, and business officials unveil recommendations to avert decline of ocean wildlife and collapse of ocean ecosystems
• New York Times Food writer distorts salmon farm facts: British Columbia grass roots demand printed clarification
  June 25, 2003
  A Canadian spokesperson for a British Columbia community group says there's something fishy about the way New York Times food writer Marian Burros fell for anti-fishfarming rhetoric, hook, line and sinker.
• Invitation to Aquaculture Europe 2003 Conference
  June 25, 2003
  We hereby kindly invite you to register for the Aquaculture Europe 2003 Conference
• New York chefs woed by Australian Hiramasa King Fish as 'Prada of Seafood'
  June 23, 2003
  Hiramasa King Fish is the first in the Southern Hemisphere to be registered ISO 14001 for environmentally sustainable management practices -- and is striving for organic certification, with plans to produce own organic fish feed
• FEFAC reveals study findings on compound feed quality-assurance systems in the EU
  June 11, 2003
  Key results of its independent Benchmarking Study on existing national quality-assurance systems for animal feed have been released by FEFAC, a step it considers as important in restoring consumer confidence
• FEFAC reports gloomy EU feed production in 2002; Dutch feed production down by13%
  June 11, 2003
  European livestock is doomed unless EU position on agriculture changes, says FEFAC president.
• Novus increases price of Alimet
  June 5, 2003
  Novus has announced the immediate increase of its methionine product
• EWOS and the Odd Berg Group join forces to develop marine larval feeds
  June 4, 2003
  EWOS and the Odd Berg Group have established a co-operative agreement that the companies say will result in an international breakthrough in the production of marine feed for fry and larva.
• Construction underway on Montana aquaculture R&D center
  June 1, 2003
  Fish nutrition and feed manufacturing research will be included in $6.5 million U.S. Fish and Wildlife project to resolve aquatic resource issues
• Teenager invents feed additive for pollution control
  May 28, 2003
  Canadian high school student wins award for inventing artificial cells as a feed additive for pollution control in aquaculture.
• Canadian BSE investigation: UPDATE
  May 23, 2003
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency posted the following information on their website today
• Canadian ruminant products barred from US
  May 21, 2003
  In the wake of the BSE incident in Alberta, the US has issued a list of products barred from entry

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