The Codex Alimentarius Commission of the United Nations has adopted an agreement on assessing the risks from genetically modified foods and has given its approval to irradiated foods.

14 students from five nations were recently awarded their diplomas qualifying them as animal feed technologists. They successfully completed the 24th specialist course at the international School for Feed Technology (SFT) in Uzwil, Switzerland.

SARS prompts GAA to move Outlook to Mexico; WAS moves Asian-Pacific Aquaculture to different hotel venue

In its first national review of Australian aquaculture since 1997, ABARE has found that the gross value of production of the industry has jumped by more than $300 million in the past five years.

A June report published by the Environmental Justice Foundation painted a negative view of shrimp farming while failing to recognize
the industry’s ongoing improvements in farming practices and management, says the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA).

EU working group on undesirable substances recommends 2000ppm maximum level for fluorine in krill meals instead of the previous 500ppm proposed level.

Suzuki Foundation officials make up in rhetoric what they lack in openness and science, says Positive Aquaculture Awareness

Vitamins, carotenoid prices up 12%

Experts revise down methylmercury limits in light of new data

International inspection team has recommended that Specified Risk Materials (SRMs) be removed entirely from the food chain.

Fishmeal production outlook for 2003 is not encouraging says new report from iffo

Good progress is being made in meeting EU Commission conditions for lifting the ban on the use of fishmeal in ruminant feed

“Alternative Protein Sources in Aquaculture Feed” is topic of AIP conference

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 Corporation today announced plans that call for its suppliers worldwide to phase-out of animal growth promotion antibiotics that are used in human medicine.

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.

Scientists, fishermen, conservationists, elected leaders, and business officials unveil recommendations to avert decline of ocean wildlife and collapse of ocean ecosystems

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.

We hereby kindly invite you to register for the Aquaculture Europe 2003 Conference

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