The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is taking action to detain U.S.-origin zinc oxide and livestock feed products that are contaminated with dioxin

The European Commission has adopted its proposal for a Regulation on official food and feed controls. The proposed Regulation will streamline and reinforce the existing control system with added bite, consisting of stricter enforcement mechanisms.

The U.S. National Fisheries Institute has expressed support for FAO-developed eco-labeling standards; says variable standards of private-sector certifiers leads to consumer confusion

Troubled Tasmanian company,Tassal Limited, has acquired Nortas to create Australia’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon.

The potential of replacing U.S. tobacco crops with Southern flounder has come a step closer, thanks to new research findings on water temperature manipulation to control sex during the flounder's early development

The U.S. Food and drug Administration (FDA) has announced a proposed regulation that would require domestic U.S. and foreign food facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States to register with the agency by December 12, 2003.

Following scientific assessments establishing a link between high canthaxanthin intake and eyesight problems, the European Commission has adopted a Directive to reduce the authorized level of canthaxanthin in animal and aquatic feed.

The American Feed Industry Association’s (AFIA) Expo ’03, being held at the Minneapolis Convention Center, May 5-7, 2003 will, for the first time, include an Educational Forum session devoted exclusively to aquaculture.

Microalgae firm, Cyanotech Corporation, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, has announced financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2003, ended December 31, 2002.

SyAqua has officially opened its shrimp research facilities in Berkeley, California as the next step in its shrimp genetic improvement program

Some media stories (and headlines) have mischaracterized the Pew Initiative’s report on transgenic fish (see story below); read the report says the executive director

Regulatory plan for review of transgenic fish raises questions about adequacy of framework to evaluate next generation of agricultural biotechnology

The increasingly competitive feed industry necessitates that all managers and supervisors understand and apply principles that determine corporate profitability. To help train key feed mill employees, Kansas State University is teaming with the American Feed Industry Association and the National Grain and Feed Association to host a series of three Feed Mill Profitability Workshops in the spring and summer of 2003. Association to host a series of three Feed Mill Profitability Workshops in the spring and summer of 2003.

The conference theme for the Aquaculture Europe 2003 international conference, to be held in Trondheim, Norway, from August 8-12 will be: “Beyond Monoculture”, and will focus on the current research status and industrial applications of various ‘integrated’ or ‘multispecies’ aquaculture technologies.

Nutreco, the world’s largest Atlantic salmon producer, has its sights set on
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Tripling Australia's aquaculture production to $2.5 billion and creating 29,000 new jobs by 2010 are the cornerstones of the Federal Government's Aquaculture Industry Action Agenda.

Research will advance the shrimp aquaculture industry in Hawai‘i and across the nation.

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Charoen Pokphand Group is to invest RMB 800 million (U.S.$96.6 million) in an integrated aquaculture project in Weihai city in China's Shandong province.