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/ 2 November 2010
Vitamins — available in food — among the few survivors of the European authority’s scalpel.
Look at a few packets in a typical kitchen cupboard, and you will notice a overlap between the labels of apparently completely different foods.
Why is there a problem now? The price of rice has reached record highs in recent months, moving from $327 a ton a year ago to $1 000 a ton last week. Yet there is no serious shortage of rice — global production and consumption are roughly in balance.