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CHINA - Zhongpin Inc. yesterday announced that it has started to expand and further improve its pork plant located in the city of Anyang in Henan province. Zhongpin will invest about $6.3 million to further improve the plant's pre-cooling room and equipment and to expand the ...
Microencapsulation of resveratrol may prolong the release of the compound and improve it s absorption, claims a new study from China. Encapsulating the ingredient in a mixture of chitosan and vanillin was found to reduce degradation of resveratrol associated with light and heat. ...
HONG KONG - Secretary for Food and Health, Dr York Chow, says the government is examining whether it is still necessary to develop a poultry slaughtering centre previously proposed. According to a government press release, Dr Chow has told lawmakers it has commissioned a ...
China Nutrifruit Group Limited, a leading producer of premium specialty fruit based products in China ("PRC"), today announced the Company's decision to cease production of its beverage products, effective immediately, and plans to utilize the additional space at its Daqing ...
CHUXIONG, Yunnan, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Niu Siwei's sense of unease grows each time he hears his students cough. After eight months with no rain, the village school where he teaches in Nanhua County of Chuxiong, a Yi ethnic prefecture in the southwestern Yunnan Province, has been ...
CHINA - The annual fishing ban has begun on China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. About 100,000 fishermen living around the Poyang, China's largest freshwater lake, have docked their vessels for a three-month annual fishing ban. The seasonal ban, in place since 2002, is ...
China has come under increasing pressure to allow its currency to rise to what is considered a much higher value than is being allowed at this time. While the United States has been pushing for this for some time, other areas of the world have gradually entered into the fray, ...
Beijing, March 22 -- The world-famous beverage giant, Pepsi Co., pledged on monday to lower the levels of salt, sugar and saturated fats contained in its top-selling products during the coming decade. Indra Nooyi, Pepsi chairman and chief executive officer, said to medias, "We ...
BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Three agreements signed by Chinese mainland and Taiwan negotiators to cooperate in farm produce quarantine, employment of fishermen, and to deal with different product quality standards are to take effect on Sunday, mainland sources said Friday. The ...
NANCHANG, March 20 (Xinhua) -- About 100,000 fishermen living around the Poyang, China's largest freshwater lake, docked their vessels at midday Saturday for a three-month annual fishing ban. The seasonal ban, in place since 2002, is considered crucial to sustain the lake's ...
BEIHAI, Guangxi, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Fifty-five food factory workers were being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning, including five who are seriously ill, in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Monday, doctors said. The workers from Beilian Food Co., Ltd., Hepu ...
CHANGSHA, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Hunan Province said on Saturday rice on sale at its supermarkets was not genetically modified and refuted environmental group Greenpeace's accusation. The provincial agricultural department said in a statement that no pest-resistant ...
China s yuan is destined to become a global reserve currency rivaling the dollar and the euro, as the nation s economic power increases the currency s allure, said Jim O Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The Chinese government will eventually allow the yuan, or ...
CHINA - The latest prices for live pigs, corn and soybean meal have just been published. The latest prices as they appear in the Chinese magazine, Pork Industry Science, are: Live pigs (RMB/kg) Corn (RMB/kg) Soybean Meal (RMB/kg) Beijing 10.2 1.8 3.2 Tianjin 10 3.2 Hebei 9.8 3.15 ...
US C The United States and China have reached an agreement to reopen the Chinese market to US pork and pork products, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced this week. When I travelled to China with US Trade Representative Kirk in October...
China's economic growth is expected to accelerate to near double-digit levels this year, as exports recover and household consumption remains strong, according to the World Bank's quarterly assessment released Wednesday. In 2010, China's economy is expected to grow 9.5%, compared ...
BEIJING, April 2 -- Shanghai Bright Food Group Co has raised its offer to buy the sugar arm of Australian conglomerate CSR to A$1.75 billion (US$1.61 billion) to expand its core business. CSR has agreed to start negotiations with Bright Food about selling the sugar unit, Sucrogen...
The 14th World Nut and Dried Fruit Congress will be held from 21-23 May 2010 in Beijing, and will include a scientific round table and an international dried fruit seminar, as well as gathering the traditional working groups for individual tree nuts. Issues explored in the ...
Pressure on China to allow its currency to rise in value against the dollar intensified Wednesday with a prominent economist telling Congress that the Obama administration should cite China and four other Asian economies as currency manipulators in a report due in April. C. Fred ...
BEIJING, March 26 -- Next time you say the word da bao (box it) at a restaurant, be aware, you could end up with a life-threatening disease. At least, that's what an expert in food packaging claims. According to Dong Jinshi, vice-president of the Hong Kong-based International ...
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