About 21 companies in the US have voluntarily lowered salt content in pre-packaged or restaurant foods products, in response to a salt reduction campaign led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. New York launched the National Salt ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched an X-band extension to its low-noise amplifier (LNA) ...
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Tri-Star Packaging, a UK-based supplier of packaging and disposables to the food and drink market, has unveiled a new range of tamper-resistant containers, Tri-Pack with SureStrip, for salad and deli items. Manufactured from rPET, ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has introduced a new system of positive release for horses slaughtered in the country. The new system requires the horse carcasses to test negative in a phenylbutazone (bute) test before they are allowed ...
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DayStar Technologies Inc (DSTI), founded in California in 1998 to make copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, says that its board of directors has approved the acquisition of a 20% equity ownership in ...
China has extended anti-dumping duties on the imports of potato starch from the European Union (EU) for five more years. According to the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) of China, the decision has been taken in a move to protect the ...
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Flisom AG of Duebendorf, Zurich, which was spun off from the Laboratory of Solid State Physics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 2005 to develop technologies for industrial roll-to-roll manufacturing of ...
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed a new prototype plasma technology that can generate ozone to kill pathogens in packaged food, while extending the shelf life of products. The researchers, Declan Diver and Hugh Potts, ...
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Diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany says that its new fiber-coupled tailored bar (T-bar) module meets the critical metric of <1kg/kW of overall module weight to optical output power, while maintaining nearly 50% efficiency. In terms ...
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The UK food industry has agreed to report the results of its testing program to the Food Standards Agency (FSA), in the wake of the ongoing horse meat contamination incident. This decision has been taken following a meeting between the ...
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has suspended operations at two meat processing facilities in the UK over claims that both the firms have sold horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and burgers. The FSA raided both the premises, Peter Boddy ...
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Winners in the Outdoor category of the fifth annual Next Generation Luminaires™ Solid-State Lighting Design Competition were announced today at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, CA. Sponsored by DOE, the Illuminating ...
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Mailing your cellphone to a recycling company might make you a few pounds, but it can leave you at risk of identity theft. The deletion techniques recycling companies use are meant for hard discs, and so don't work on the solid-state flash ...
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LAS VEGAS — Officials with the Specialty Sleep Assn. said the group's recent showing at a new home in the World Market Center here was a big success. The SSA moved up to the 15th floor of Building C to open its new The Future of ...
According to the different types, glass have different characteristics. The following in accordance with the classification of architectural glass, respectively, as follows: First, the glass lenses 1, a good perspective, light ...
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