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The Japanese Food and Beverage (F&B) retail industry includes supermarkets, general merchandise stores (GMS), department stores, convenience stores, drugstores, and the internet.

The decline in the production and stocks of wine in South Africa is expected to result in an increase in domestic prices, and in potential shortages of distilling wine and wine for brandy....

Dr. Victor Agyeman, Director-General of Ghana’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the nation’s leading research institute, endorsed the use of modern biotechnology in an interview....

In 2017, value sales of grocery retailers in Greece declined by 2.3 percent to $19.7 billion.

On June 6, 2018 the EU published permanent Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) for fosetyl-al (the sum of fosetyl, phosphonic acid and their salts, expressed as fosetyl) on tree nuts.

New legislation on trade defense entered into force in the EU on June 8, 2018.

The South African food retail sales reached US $44.9 billion in 2017.

Health Canada recently concluded a public consultation on proposed front-of-package (FOP) labeling designs and identified how forthcoming regulations could limit marketing of foods with FOP labels.

Chile’s food retail sales reached $16.7 billion in 2017. The main food distribution channels are supermarkets with a share of about 62 percent.

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