The food agency, based in Rome, operates in more than 80 countries.

But in government-controlled areas of the north and west, there are also danger signs, the food agency says.

Only 358,000 tons have been pledged, the food agency said.

F.D.A. officials said language was added by department, which is the food agency's parent, and then sent to the budget office.

Later its mandate was expanded to include inquiries into several scandals involving the food agency.

Central to the solutions that he is proposing is the food agency.

You must resolve those issues inside the Commission before you take steps towards creating a food agency.

But all this argument illustrates the need for an independent food standard agency at EU level.

In 1997 fishing vessels at sea were estimated to have caught 95 million tons, the international food agency says.

And the food agency found several years ago that worldwide, the fishing industry was spending $54 billion more than it was taking in every year.