Japanese automotive giant Toyota's US arm has issued a callback of around 109,000 Prius v hybrid vehicles on grounds of software glitches. The recall covers those vehicles that were manufactured between 2012 and 2014. The software snag ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, Toyota, Prius v hybrid vehicles
The unrepentant voices of complaining Australian consumers are ringing loud and clear. The latest instances have impacted on two of the country's best-known brands, Glad Wrap and Nestle's Allen's Lollies. Glad Wrap cuts through for ...
Tags: Nestle, Consumer Power
After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
Tags: EV Sector, electric vehicle
Automobile manufacturers will make a new recall history in the US, repairing defective airbags across 34 million cars after regulators pulled up Japanese supplier Takata on safety issues. With the historic recall expected to span over ...
Tags: Airbag Fault, Takata's Recalls
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott began waging a war against red tape, even launching a website dedicated to the notion. The deregulation of the country’s medical device and pharmaceutical industries has been included in that ...
Tags: Medical Device, Medicine
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched an open consultation on the draft scientific opinion on the safety of caffeine that was presented recently to EFSA. The provisional findings of the Draft Scientific Opinion on the ...
Tags: energy drink, public health, Agriculture
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Gerber Legendary Blades, a division of Fiskars Brands Inc., of Madison, Wis., has agreed to pay a $2.6 million civil penalty and abide by a permanent injunction. In a ...
Tags: mechanical hazard, federal law, Security
A review of the chain of responsibility duties provides an opportunity for the transport industry to have a say in how these laws could be improved and encourage safer behaviour on our roads, says the NTC. The National Transport ...
Tags: transport industry, Heavy Vehicle, Service
At a workshop held in Dhaka on Nov 25, the need for a systematic and comprehensive follow up of fire and structural inspections of apparel factories by the Department of Inspections of Factories and Establishments (DIFE) was stressed. The ...
American automaker Ford Motor is recalling older Ford Escape and Focus ST vehicles, as the engine wiring splices may cause the vehicle to stall. Manufactured between 2011 and 2013, Escape vehicles are equipped with 2.0 liter engines and ...
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One week ahead of its annual Board meeting, the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety (ABWS) announced it will extend compensation benefits to workers from two months' to up to four months'wages for workers displaced as a result of factory ...
Tags: ABWS, Apparel, Accessories
Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor is planning to ban certain fruit and vegetable imports from Poland, as well as chicken imports from the US over food safety concerns. The agency will also test cheese from McDonald's for certain ...
Holden, the Australian subsidiary of US automaker General Motors (GM), has recalled over 45,000 units of the Commodore and Caprice vehicles in Australia and New Zealand over seatbelt safety concerns. The recall affects 41,933 cars in ...
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Following Transport and Logistics News' recent report on the TWU's concerns about road tankers (Defuse mobile bombs [dangerous tanker trucks]: TWU), our expert reader Nelson Mansfield has offered the following counter argument. Nelson ...
Tags: Trucking Industry
As part of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) routine testing of various food products, a survey released today reported that all of the canned foods tested for Bisphenol A (BPA) were safe to consume. BPA was not detected in 98.5 ...
Tags: Canned Food, Bisphenol