The Turkish government has assigned the state grain board, or TMO, to import 100,000 MT of rice duty free by the end of July, 2009 for its domestic use. The government has also mandated TMO to ... [full story]
European Union's Food Standards Agency is consulting various industry sources in order to implement a mandatory testing of Chinese rice imports over fears of contamination from unapproved Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO).The consultations center on a new ... [full story]