After settling a dispute about final rule deadlines for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) earlier this week, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) has filed another lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – this time ...
Tags: Center for Food Safety, FDA, GRAS
On Wednesday, Apple removed the Blockchain wallet app, the only remaining app that could be used to make Bitcoin payments on the iOS platform, from its App Store. And Bitcoiners are pissed off. How pissed off? One particular Apple customer ...
Tags: wallet app, monopoly on payments, Bitcoin
Following opposition by public health professionals, the Bali administration has finally declared its official stance on the plan to hold Inter-tabac Asia 2014, an international trade fair for tobacco products and smoking accessories, in ...
Tags: E-Cigarette, E Cigarette, Cigarette
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Monday reiterated its calls for the United States to objectively and fairly handle ongoing solar trade disputes after the latter initiated another probe into Chinese products. The comments came ...
Tags: Handle Solar Disputes
A group of U.S. hardwood plywood producers is seeking a judicial review of the International Trade Commission's decision not to pursue an antidumping case against Chinese hardwood plywood producers, which the U.S. companies say are selling ...
Tags: Plywood, Furniture, Construction
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) Friday approved anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China, paving the way for the Department of Commerce to set preliminary duties in ...
Some chefs and bartenders in California are miffed about a new regulation restricting them from handling ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands. At the beginning of January, language in the state's food code changed from directing food ...
Tags: food safety
US Department of Commerce announced its preliminary determination regarding the "critical circumstances" allegations in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation on imports of certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India and ...
Tags: OCTG, antidumping, oil
The US Commerce Department said Thursday that it has launched anti-dumping and countervailing investigations over imports of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China. The investigations are in response to a petition ...
Tags: photovoltaic products, Mineral
Countervailing, antidumping duties to be levied if injury to US found Chinese companies are actively responding to the latest United States anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in the solar products field, aiming to prove they did ...
Tags: Tariff Investigation, Solar Panel
China is aiming high on the industrial ladder. Getting there requires advanced equipment such as robots that is still firmly in the hands of foreign enterprises. Industrial robots are used to do things like bolt panels on cars or ...
Tags: Chinese Robotics, Foreign Firms
Romania will suspend new hydropower projects in protected areas in a bid to preserve biodiversity, authorities and the conservationist group WWF said Tuesday. The planned construction of thousands of small-scale hydropower stations across ...
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The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday it has launched antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations into imported calcium hypochlorite from China. Calcium hypochlorite is an ingredient in bleaching powder, ...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended poultry processing at a Foster Farms plant in Livingston, CA, due to an infestation of cockroaches. Since then, some people have expressed confusion about why the agency closed the ...
Tags: Food Safety News, Food News, Fsis, Cockroaches
Food safety advocates have launched a Change.org petition aimed at getting Congress to keep chicken from China off U.S. plates. The petition asks Congress and the Obama administration to ensure that Chinese-processed chicken is not ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Chinese Chicken, Chicken, Food safety