There’s more to celebrate this month than just the holidays – this month also marks the 40th anniversary of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. We all rely – and have come to expect – that plenty of clean water ...
Tags: Clean Water, Agriculture
In a major fraud indictment, Cedar Rapids based halal food brand Midamar has been booked by federal prosecutors for supplying $4.9m worth of beef without following the halal practices promised in its labelling and advertising. Citing the ...
Tags: Misbranded Meat, labelling, advertising, Agriculture
California officials notified the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) late yesterday that they have declined the group’s request for an extension in the deadline for upholstery manufacturers to comply with a new labeling ...
Tags: upholstered furniture, labeling requirement, Furniture
Stating that the new power tariff rate announced last week by Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) would seriously affect the competitiveness of the textile mills in Tamil Nadu across the value chain, the Southern India ...
Tags: tariff hike, power factor, Textile
Packaging solutions provider Clondalkin Pharma and Healthcare has installed its first mass carton serialisation capability at its Cherry Orchard facility in Dublin, Ireland. The Atlantic Zeiser Digiline 300 machine has enabled ...
Tags: trace technology, serialisation standards, Agriculture
Coca-Cola has secured required board approvals to invest $500m in Coca-Cola Amatil's (CCA) Indonesian operations. Through the proposed investment,Coca-Cola will acquire 29.4% stake in CCA Indonesia (CCAI). An agreement to this effect ...
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In the past two weeks, China's stock market, long the subject of neglect, became a public focus, indicating the likely arrival of a bull market period. From Nov. 24 to Dec.5, 2014, the Shanghai and Shenzhen composite indexes rose by 18.13 ...
Tags: Stock Market, bull market
Posted in Regulatory and Compliance by Kristopher Sturgis on December 12, 2014 Bill Maisel, director of science at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, holds CRM devices. Earlier this week the science chief of ...
Tags: Medical Device, Drug Administration, Health
The U.S. department of commerce announced that they would take anti-dumping countervailing investigation on Chinese melamine imports on Nov.3, this investigation may lead the United States imposing punitive tariffs on these products that ...
Tags: Melamine, punitive tariffs
In 2014 Russian government published a series of laws and regulations to the wheeled vehicles. The regulations newly increased ECE R10 electromagnetic compatibility, ECE R93 front lower part protection and R122 heating system and declared ...
Tags: R122 heating system, ECE R10 electromagnetic compatibility, Auto
A growing appetite for red meat in China has made the country the largest market for sheep meat exports, and the second-largest for beef exports from New Zealand. Tim Ritchie, chief executive of the Meat Industry Association of New ...
Tags: Quality Meat, Red Meat
Gildan Activewear Inc., which is the largest supplier of branded athletic socks in the United States, reported record fourth quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.00, up 20.5 percent compared to last year, but projected a loss for the ...
Posted in Contract Manufacturing Services by Qmed Staff on December 3, 2014 Medical device companies are increasingly turning to outsourcing companies with “one-stop shop” strategies, and the result might be a consolidation ...
Tags: healthcare budgets, Medical device, Health
Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., is increasing the price of all grades of N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP, M-Pyrol) sold globally effective January 1, 2015 or as contracts allow. Prices will increase as follows: ...
The company demonstrated the successes of its Cut/4 CArboN program at this year’s BrauBeviale in Nuremberg, Germany, in an unusual way: its progress is seen through the eyes of “Carla” (pic), a fictional Ball employee who ...
Tags: Carbon Footprint, Microsite