The beverage industry in the Philippines has opposed a proposal to impose additional tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, claiming that the tax would not tackle the obesity problem. The House Bill 3365, which was authored by Nueva Ecija Rep. ...
Tags: Beverage, Soft Drinks, Agriculture
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, which showed that 70 per cent of chicken sold in UK supermarkets were ...
Tags: Chicken, Campylobacter Bacteria
For the third consecutive year, Omni United continued its Mobilizing Hope campaign and corporate alliance program to support The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). For every Omni United Radar brand tire sold between April 2013 and ...
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
Small in size though they are, hinges are essential to the proper functioning of your garage door. Should they break or wear out, opening the garage will be difficult, if not impossible. Even worse, broken hinges can cause serious damage to ...
Tags: Broken Hinge, Garage Door
TRW Automotive has demonstrated a combination of advanced restraint systems that can protect rear seat occupants in case of frontal accident. The advanced rear seat technologies showcased by TRW at the Airbag 2014 Symposium, included ...
Tags: Airbag, Safety Technologiesc, Auto
Opel has unveiled its entry-level five seater car named Karl featuring advance safety, comfort and infotainment technologies. The car is powered by one-liter, three-cylinder gasoline 1.0 ECOTEC (EcoTec turbo banger) engine, capable of ...
Let’s be honest here, we’ve all tapped that Send button in the heat of the moment and immediately wished we could take it back. Well, Gmail users may soon have the ability to rescind their unfortunate comments in a forthcoming ...
Tags: Google, Consumer Electronics
The idea of universal design is all about offering quick and easy access to every part of your home. It builds in the flexibility to accommodate users in any state of health or physical mobility. Whatever the current age and level of ...
Tags: Shower, universal design, Construction
Humanization is significant for reducing the immunogenicity of monoclonal antibodies derived from rodent sources and for improving their activation of the human immune system. Rodent antibodies are highly immunogenic in humans, which ...
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In the medical sector, compression textiles are mainly used to prevent various illnesses, or to treat them, or to improve quality of life. However, compression textiles are increasingly also being used in the non-medical sector and are ...
Some of the biggest US-based retailers say that Alibaba would break American local retailers if Congress can’t prevent tax evasion and fraud. These companies have pointed to Alibaba when it hasn’t secured a place in US market. ...
Tags: US-based retailers, Alibala
STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveiled new automotive-qualified silicon carbide (SiC) diodes for on-board battery chargers (OBCs) in electric vehicles such as plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) that demand high power-handing capability ...
Tags: on-Board Battery Chargers, 650V SiC Diodes, Electrical
Toyota Motor will add new adaptive high beam technology to its vehicles that enables more precise control of light distribution through independent LED control. The new LED Array Adaptive High Beam System (LED Array AHS) uses multiple ...
Toyota Motor is set to introduce a newly-developed set of active safety technologies designed to help prevent or mitigate collisions across a range of vehicle speeds from 2015. Offered in the form of two 'Toyota Safety Sense' packages, ...
Tags: active safety technologies, collisions, Auto