ARGENCERT NEWS

* NEW FORMAT FOR ORGANIC WINE CERTIFICATES Modification for organic wines certificates destined to the EU. Full text

* ARGENCERT IN THE ‘CUYO’ ORGANIC ANNUAL PRODUCERS MEETING. Thirty five producers participated oriented mainly to organic wine productions. Full text

* SENASA: GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES MEASURED WITH GPS SENASA requirements starting January 1st, 2009. Full text

* ARGENCERT CUSTOMER PROPOSED FOR THE ‘LA NACION’ PRIZE Della Zia Productos Orgánicos selected to compete for the first prize in the “Best agrifood innovation category”. Full text

* GOLD MEDAL FOR CUSTOMER OF ARGENCERT IN “MALBEC AL MUNDO 2008” ARGENCERT gave us immediate responses to our needs” says ALPAMANTA. Full text

NATIONAL NEWS

* INTA, ORGANIC PROGRAMATIC UNIT. INTA’s positive reply to MAPO request. Full text

* SAGPyA: ORGANICS, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FOOD SERVICES AND TOURISM Foreign consumers of Argentine organic products coincide with present tourists currents of those consumers to the country. Full text

* SAN LUIS COMBATS THE FRUIT FLY Domiciliary spraying plan and Sterile Insect Technique. Full text

* PÁGINA/12: SOME 30,000 BIRDS DIED IN GUALEGUAYCHU DUE TO THE USE OF AGROCHEMICALS. Environmental catastrophe due to the “abuse of agrochemicals”, says officer of the Natural Resources authority. Full text

* FAIR OF GREEN FAIRS IN BAHIA BLANCA Community strategies based on food sovereignity. Full text

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

* EUROPE: ORGANIC AGRICULTURE PENALIZED BY THE ‘CAP’ AGREEMENT. Criteria continue being based in costs analysis disregarding the environmental benefits. Full text

* USA: NOSB DISCUSSES GROUP CERTIFICATION WITH ICS NOSB discusses group certification with Internal Control Systems for the NOP. Full text

* USA - NOSB ORGANIC FISH DECISION, CONTROVERSIAL NOSB to allow organic fish to be fed with 25% non-organic feed. US Consumers Union complains. Full text

* OBLIGATORY TRACEABILITY FOR THE END OF 2009. Electronic traceability mechanisms common to the whole USA supply chain in the fruit and vegetable industry. Full text

* USA - ORGANICS OUTPERFORMING IN THE NATURAL PRODUCTS MARKET Organics still out-perform other products of the Natural Products Industry. Full text

* ORGANICS IN AFRICA: UN SAYS THEY GET BEWTTER YIELDS Organic methods provide greater resilience in extreme drought conditions. Full text

* SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MOVES UP IN DEVELOPMENT STATUS The future ISO 26000 standard on social responsibility has passed to committee draft. Full text

* EU PESTICIDE BAN WOULD HIT SUPPLY, SAYS FOOD INDUSTRY UK food manufacturers point out the gravity of the situation in the raw material supply and prices. Full text

* PESTICIDE COCKTAIL: 99% MORTALITY IN LEOPARD FROGS Conservation of wetland communities can be impacted by low concentrations of mixed pesticides. Full text

* STANDARD ON ENERGY MANAGEMENT LAUNCHED The future ISO 50001 will establish a framework for companies to manage energy. Full text

* EARTH: EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF RESPONSIBLE TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY Network to define tourism development policies based on the principles of sustainable development and responsibility. Full text

* LONDON BECOMES WORLD'S FIRST FAIRTRADE CITY Across the capital, 20 boroughs now have Fairtrade Borough status. Full text

GMOs, HORMONES, NANOTECHNOLOGY, TECHNICAL NOTES

* ‘EUROPEAN CONSUMERS’ LAUNCHES AN INFORMNATIVE CAMPAIGN FOR ZERO TELERANCE IN GMOS. At less than 2 months of the beginning of the European directive. Full text

* ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT E.COLI COULD SPREAD, WARNS SOIL ASSOCIATION One of the most worrying developments in the continuing rise of ESBL E.coli”. Full text

* CHR HANSEN MARKETS NEW DAIRY ANTIBIOTIC TEST Rapid test to avoid residues in drinking milk and industry milk. Full text

* CALLS FOR STEVIA CERTIFICATION Development of quality and sweetening power reference standards. Full text

* HIBISCUS TEA CAN LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE: RESEARCHERS SAY According to new research presented to the American Heart Association (AHA). Full text

* USA: ADOPTION OF NPA NATURAL COSMETIC STANDARD BEGINS New program of natural product certification. Full text

CONGRESSES, SEMINARS, MEETINGS, COURSES FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS

* POST GRADE COURSE IN AGRICULTURAL ADMINISTRATION AND AGRIBUSINESS. Universidad del Salvador – Integral High Level School of Dairy. Full text