Beginning March 15, Chinese consumers will have support from the courts in their efforts to sue manufacturers and retailers of unsafe food and pharmaceuticals, according to the South China Morning Post. The ruling, announced last week, ...
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Laboratory tests on Washington State's exotic shellfish export, the geoduck clam, have found no evidence of unsafe or excessive levels of arsenic, rebutting claims made by Chinese food safety authorities that followed?a sudden ban placed on ...
A lot of folks complain that they're usually too busy for healthy eating, so they feel forced to stock up on fast foods, packaged soups with MSG, or do take outs and order home delivery pizzas and Chinese food with GMOs and toxic additives. ...
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Shuanghui International, a Chinese food giant, is seeking to raise up to $6bn through an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong in the second quarter of 2014. The Chinese firm recently acquired US-based hog and pork processor ...
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US-based Boston Scientific has obtained Chinese Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Alair bronchial thermoplasty system, designed for patients suffering from severe asthma. The Alair system uses mild heat to reduce the ...
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AarhusKarlshamn (AAK), a UK-based edible oils and fats producer, has established a new innovation center in Shanghai, China to support its AAK Acceleration program. Primarily focused on chocolate and confectionery, bakery and dairy ...
Shuanghui International, a Chinese food giant, is hopeful of closing the $4.7bn acquisition of American pork producer Smithfield Foods by 26 September 2013, following the approvals from the latter's stakeholders. The American producer has ...
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2 Sisters Food Group, and PepsiCo are among the trade buyers that could snap up Burton's Biscuits, although the deal could easily go to a private equity house, according to analysts. Burton's makes Cadbury-branded biscuits under licence ...
China's food watchdog, the State Food and Drug Administration, has released information on nearly 130 milk powder producers that are authorized to sell their products. It is also tightening regulation on the production of infant formula. ...
InSightec has received approval from the Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) for its ExAblate system designed to treat uterine fibroids non-invasively. This system uses high intensity focused ultrasound energy to destroy the ...
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Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong province and is one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of Chinese cuisine. Its prominence outside China is due to the great numbers of early emigrants from Guangdong. Cantonese chefs are highly sought ...
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Chinese food companies are struggling to regain consumers' confidence in their products amid controversial food safety crises. Tainted milk powder, drainage oil, vegetables and fruits with pesticide residue, have remained some of the ...
The first thing customers see as they enter the basement of the Wal-Mart Qinghe store in Beijing is a mountain of imported milk cartons. Half a large stack of Euro-fit whole milk from Germany, selling at 9.9 yuan ($1.61) per box, is ...
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French retail giant Carrefour is said to quit the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Sources said recently that Carrefour, the biggest retailer in the world and the second-biggest one in Europe, was considering selling business in both the ...
China’s government officials began the year with assurances to the world that 2013 would mark a new era of food safety. The bureaucrats were still patting each other on the back, when in March, a flotilla of 16,000 dead hogs bobbed ...
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