The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a new regulation defining the term "gluten-free" for voluntary food labeling. This will provide a uniform standard definition to help the up to 3 million Americans who have celiac disease, an ...
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An incoming regulatory tsunami could leave the American trucking industry in need of a million drivers by 2016, if all the new regulations currently being considered are implemented. That startling assessment was made by Noel Perry, ...
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Some websites and mobile app developers are confused about how to comply with revised rules governing the online collection of personal information from children that took effect in the U.S. Monday, critics said. The U.S. Federal Trade ...
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has introduced new labeling for beef products that have been mechanically tenderized, in order to ensure food safety. The new rule also requires the ...
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A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into effect on Aug. 1. The law was published in Germany's Federal Law Gazette ...
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New hydraulic fracturing rules being developed by the Obama administration will drive oil and gas development from federal lands, a panel of industry and state officials said in their prepared testimony to a House committee Wednesday. The ...
An overexposure law prohibiting women from wearing skimpy revealing outfits has been passed in South Korea. According to the law, signed by the sovereign state’s newly elected President Park Gyun-he, women who deemed to be ...
Furniture makers should speak up now if they have concerns with California's new upholstered flammability rule, a top California official told an industry audience here last week. Tonya Blood, chief of the California Bureau of Home ...
Furniture makers should speak up now if they have concerns with California's new upholstered flammability rule, a top California official told an industry audience here last week. Tonya Blood, chief of the California Bureau of Home ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's new proposed upholstered furniture flammability rule could give furniture manufacturers until mid-2014 to meet its requirements. The second draft of the new Technical Bulletin 117 rule, uses a ...
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Qatar has imposed a ban on the use of cups and containers made of foam for serving hot food and beverages. According to the new rule, foam products are permitted only for packaging cold food and drinks. Additionally, the country's ...
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Japan has agreed to allow US imports of cattle aged up to 30 months from 1 February. This move comes after the food safety authorities stated that the decision would not increase health concerns. The new rule will allow the US exporters ...
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A new web page from the National Pig Association will show whether food retailers and processors have pledged to stop sourcing pork meat produced illegally in the European Union. Around 40% of pork products imported to the UK from ...
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The Himachal Pradesh High Court has imposed a ban saying that no food items, particularly junk food and several others be packaged in non bio-degradable plastics beginning 1 April 2013. The products include chocolates, ice creams, chips, ...
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It's becoming more common to buy major appliances online—roughly 10 percent of refrigerator sales now happen there, versus at a brick and mortar store, up from a blip 10 years ago. But for all the convenience of online appliance ...
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