Jim Fitzpatrick

Halal meat step closer to assurance scheme

UK Halal meat took a step closer to gaining an assurance scheme, such as the Red Tractor standard, after a meeting between campaigners and Defra. Minister for Food and Farming Jim Fitzpatrick MP met with the Efra Select...

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Grimsby smoked fish nets EU seal of approval

UK: Producers in Grimsby was this week celebrating Grimsby Smoked Fish becoming the 39th UK food product to be given protected status for its quality and regional identity. Meeting at the Humber Seafood Institute in Grimsby...

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Phoney imported whisky will be seized at our ports

A crackdown on counterfeit Scotch whisky will be launched this week. From tomorrow, port authorities will impound cheap foreign spirits claiming to be the real thing and slap fines on the importers. Tougher regulations target...

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Results 2976th Council meeting Agriculture and Fisheries

ITEMS DEBATED State aid in Poland for the purchase of agricultural land 7 Genetically modified maize MIR604 8 Conservation of fisheries resources through technical measures 9 EC/Norway: annual consultations for 2010 10 fishing...

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Sentry conference: Farming can lead the way out of recession

The 2010 Sentry conference will ask whether farming can lead the economy out of recession and back to prosperity. Farmers Weekly looks at what's in store. The government's chief scientific adviser Sir John Beddington, called it...

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DUP Party Political Broadcast

A party political broadcast on behalf of the Democratic Unionist Party, ahead of their annual conference which is taking place this weekend. You can watch live coverage of the Democratic Unionist Party conference on 'The...

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Food Minister confers smoked fish honour on Grimsby

GRIMSBY ‘s traditional smoked fish officially received international culinary recognition today. Following a 10-year-long campaign, that unique product has been ranked in the same super food and drink league as Champagne, Parma...

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Feeding the world, climate change, and peak oil - Nov 17

UN links climate with hunger -Hungry for change -The Links Between Food Security And Climate Change -Agriculture in the Climate Change Negotiations, Platform Issue Paper -The one thing depleting faster than oil is the...

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Minister for the Horse moves on H&H transport campaign

Abigail Butcher, H&H news editor Check out the latest H&H subscription offers >> Jim Fitzpatrick, Minister for Food, Farming, the Environment and the Horse, is planning a meeting with the Department for Transport (DfT) to...

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Farming minister Fitzpatrick to have face operation

FARMING minister Jim Fitzpatrick is having a neurosurgical operation next month. The Labour MP for Poplar and Canning Town is due to have the op on December 15 on the NHS, forcing his to miss his advice surgery three days...

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