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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPED countries have agreed to enter into formal talks with developing countries, if poorer food exporting states encounter problems complying with any new food health restrictions imposed by richer importing trading partners. The commitment was framed in a Canadian proposal to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) sanitary and phytosanitary measures committee under the ongoing Doha development round talks.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE BRITISH Columbia Salmon Farmers Association has scrambled to head off a local boycott by the Canadian province’s restaurateurs on using farmed salmon, in place, say several Vancouver restaurants, because of customer fears about the health safety of the product.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN tobacco growers are fuming over Rothmans Benson and Hedges’ decision not to purchase tobacco from local growers in Quebec.

Growers from L’Office des Producteurs de Tabac Jaune du Quebec demonstrated in front of a Montreal Rothmans B&H factory in March after receiving notice that tobacco firm – that buys 15 per cent of its tobacco from Quebec – will no longer be a customer.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AREA of northern Bolivia is to be the focus of an innovative Canadian aid mission designed to offer advice on preventing landslides in communities pock-marked with small mines, notably those for gold prospecting.

Canada will fund a team of scientists to help the community of Chima, a remote gold-mining village that was hit by a deadly landslide last month; the specialists want to ensure that they do not suffer from a repeat the tragedy and to help such communities better deal with such disasters, if they do occur.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THREE potentially expensive class-action lawsuits have been filed against large US grocery chains, Kroger, Safeway and Albertsons over the colour of their salmon. The lawsuits, filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle, Washington state, on behalf of shoppers seeks a court order requiring the chains to inform shoppers that the farmed salmon they sell has been dyed pink.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Trade Organisation in the midst of key negotiations to update its agriculture agreement, Geneva diplomats are often stressing the raison d’etre of the WTO Doha Development Round, namely that commerce helps the poor.

The idea is that by ripping down bureaucratic hurdles, duties and restrictive quotas for goods that developing countries produce in abundance – such as food – the WTO will provide their entrepreneurs with an opportunity to seize export earnings.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has laid criminal charges against Toronto-based JTI-Macdonald Corp., and eight of the firm’s current and former executives, alleging fraud and conspiracy involved in knowingly selling cigarettes to smugglers in the early 1990’s. “Our preliminary assessment of the RCMP’s charges strongly suggests that they are based on false evidence offered by convicted felons, encouraged by government-sponsored anti-tobacco activists,” said Guy Cote, JTI spokesman.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN fishing industry is currently enjoying a significant upswing in profits thanks to a surge in fish and seafood consumption and new accessible global fish sources. Three of the country’s main processors in its often hard-pressed Atlantic provinces have reported strong profits despite a decline in traditional fish catches.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
FAMILY-OWNED British brewery, Fuller Smith and Turner, is launching its traditional English ale varieties across the Canada. It has been testing its London Pride brand in high-end bars in the key Ontario market, whilst ESB, Extra Strong Bitter will be introduced there in the autumn and London Porter in spring 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has released a series of papers on genetically modified food, with a memorandum on fish highlighting the significant commercial opportunities to fish farmers, but also the potential dire environmental after effects of escapes by GM fish.…