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ADM selects vice-president of technical services
OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, U.S. —
ADM Milling, Overland Park, Kansas,
U.S., announced that Nick Weigel has
been named vice-president, technical
services, effective immediately.
Previously director of technical services and R&D, Weigel will be responsible for managing quality control,

quality assurance, food safety, R&D
and technical services. He will report to
Mark Kolkhorst, ADM vice-president
and president of ADM Milling and Alliance Nutrition.
Weigel will replace Don Sullins, who
retired on Dec. 31 after working for
ADM for 16 years.

IGC forecasts largest world wheat area since 1998-99
LONDON, ENGLAND — Wheat
harvested area across the world in 201314 may be the largest since 1998, the
International Grains Council (IGC) said
in its Nov. 29 Grain Market Report. The
IGC forecast world wheat harvested area
in 2013-14 at 223.2 million hectares (1
hectare equals about 2.47 acres). The
forecast compared with 218.3 million
hectares in 2012-13 and 220.7 million
hectares in 2011-12.
The IGC indicated its forecast considered the impact of elevated domestic
and international wheat prices and as-

sumed normal growing conditions.
Increased harvested areas were forecast in the E.U., Russia, Ukraine, the
U.S. and Argentina.
“In the Northern Hemisphere, where
winter wheat planting is almost complete, the crop condition is regarded as
generally good and the plants are reasonably established ahead of the winter, except for parts of the U.S., where
dry conditions slowed germination, and
parts of the E.U. (United Kingdom and
France) where conditions were overly
wet,” the IGC said.

Vietnam’s rice exports likely to hit record
HANOI, VIETNAM — Vietnam has pocketing nearly $3.2 billion, said VFA.
signed contracts to export 8 million
Compared to the same period last
tonnes of rice, an increase of 10% from year, the country’s rice export volume
last year, the Vietnam Food Association increased 5.57%, while the export price
(VFA) said on Dec. 5. In 2011, Vietnam was down by an average of $43.3 per
exported over 7.1 million tonnes of rice. tonne. During the period, the amount of
In November, the number of new or- high-quality rice export accounted for
ders had increased 11% over the same 3.358 million tonnes, up 78% year-onperiod last year, according to Truong year, according to VFA.
Thanh Phong, VFA’s chairman. In the
The increase in quantity of high-qualﬁrst 11 months of 2012, Vietnam ex- ity rice greatly contributed to raising
ported 7.104 million tonnes of rice at the average export price and purchasing
an average price of $445.56 per tonne, price, Phong said.
U.S., China to cooperate on food safety
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. — The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
has extended by ﬁve years an agreement
to enhance cooperation between the
U.S. and China on food safety.
Since the agency and the General
Administration of Quality Supervision,
Inspection, and Quarantine of China
(AQSIQ) began cooperating on food
safety, FDA has achieved: increased inspections of Chinese food facilities; enhanced cooperation on high-risk foods;
enhanced collaboration with Chinese
food-safety authorities; joint outreach
on the FDA Food Safety Modernization
Act (FSMA); and conﬁdence-building
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in laboratory work.
The renewed agreement includes:
• Enhancement of FDA’s ability to
identify high-risk food products entering the U.S. from China;
• Collaboration to facilitate inspections of facilities that process and produce food;
• A focus on high-risk foods frequently exported from China to the U.S., including canned and acidiﬁed foods, pet
food and aquaculture; and
• The creation of processes for FDA
to accept relevant, veriﬁed information
from AQSIQ regarding registration and
certiﬁcation.

The living also
enjoy the bread
of the dead.
The ﬁrst of November is traditionally the
Christian day of remembering the dead.
Nowhere is this tradition more alive and
colourful than in Mexico. The Día de los
Muertos, "day of the dead", is a cheerful time when deceased family members
are welcomed back to join the living
for a night. Houses are cleaned, and
each family puts up a lavished sacriﬁcial
altar. The route from the cemetery
to the house is marked with yellow
cempasúchil ﬂowers so the dead won’t
lose their way. And what do you oﬀer
a visitor from the afterlife when they
arrive? Pan de Muertos of course, "bread
of the dead". The round loaves are
decorated with crossbones and placed
on the altar. Once the dead have sated
themselves on the aroma, the living
eat the bread, because like traditional
baked goods the world over, it’s extremely delicious.
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