WASHINGTON -- Shoppers are in the dark about where much of their food comes from despite a five-year-old law requiring meat and other products to carry labels with their country of origin. Reports of tainted seafood from China have raised consumer awareness about the safety of imported food and many of the law's most powerful opponents have left Congress. The labeling requirement, popular with small, independent ranchers who sell their own products, applies to certain cuts of beef, lamb,...

Applications are expected to be high for the new scheme which will see farmers eligible for grant-aid up to a maximum eligible investment ceiling of 120,000. The standard grant-rate will be 40pc for animal housing and related storage facilities and for dairy hygiene investments, with a 10pc top-up grant available for eligible young farmers in certain cases. Minister Coughlan confirmed increased investment ceilings of 40,000 for milking machines and 25,000 for bulk milk tanks compared to...

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Published July 18, 2007 This week I am traveling around the part of Norway you see in the travel brochures -- the fjords with picturesque villages on the shores, forested mountains with 1,000-foot waterfalls coursing down the precipices, old wooden fishing boats anchored in the harbor, old churches. Published July 18, 2007 This week I am traveling around the part of Norway you see in the travel brochures -- the fjords with picturesque villages on the shores, forested mountains with...

SRINAGAR: Authorities in Kashmir are using modern technology to check trade in shahtoosh products made from the fur of an endangered Tibetan antelope, officials said on Saturday. Wildlife officials say they have put microchip tags on nearly 900 shahtoosh products owned by Kashmiris to discourage trading in the fabric known as the "king of wools" for its gossamer lightness. Tags "weighing less than a gram has been tagged to these shahtoosh products," wildlife warden Rashid Naqash told...

Shoppers are in the dark about where much of their food comes from despite a five-year-old law requiring meat and other products to carry labels with their country of origin. Reports of tainted seafood from China have raised consumer awareness about the safety of imported food and many of the law's most powerful opponents have left Congress. The labeling requirement, popular with small, independent ranchers who sell their own products, applies to certain cuts of beef, lamb, pork, as well...