A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
Tags: honey, Chinese honey, food safety
The U.S. ban on 40W and 60W incandescent bulbs put into effect by the U.S. Congress January 1st is an effort to promote more energy efficient lighting, such as CFLs and LEDs. China LED industry stocks boomed on the first working day of ...
Tags: LED Stocks, Incandescent Ban
British Aerosol Manufacturers' Association (BAMA) has unveiled changes in aerosol regulations and labeling for its Retail Liaison Group in its annual meeting. The BAMA Retail Liaison Group comprises technical representatives from many of ...
On his appointment, McGann said the global competitiveness of Europe is still an issue that needs to be addressed by the EU. "The pulp and paper industry is a leading sector in the bio-economy with a large renewable energy and raw ...
NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: NPSP), a global biopharmaceutical company pioneering and delivering therapies that transform the lives of patients with rare diseases, today announced that the European Commission has granted orphan drug ...
The Facts 2012 – showed a 34% recycling rate, 35% energy recovery rate and 31% landfill figure. It found 69.2% of all plastic packaging waste was recovered in 2012, the balance going to landfills and incineration without energy ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Plastic Packaging
Exports of textiles and raw materials, excluding apparel, from Turkey touched US$ 7.7 billion during the first eleven months of 2013, indicating an increase of 7.1 percent, compared to the same period last year, as per the data released by ...
Tags: Textile Exports, Textile
The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) urged the SNGPL to immediately stop discrimination in provision of gas to the textile made-ups sector which is contributing more in total textile related exports of $13 billion. The LCCI ...
Tags: Gas Supply, Textile Made-up Sector
Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto it and attach a corresponding stub to the stump. This is all part of an arduous ...
Tags: Borneo island, Indonesian, timber, auditing process, illegal logging
The exports of garments from China to the Asean region increased by 42 percent year-on-year during January-October 2013 period, according to the data released by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Textiles, China TexNet ...
Tags: Apparel Export, garments
The Pakistan garment industry still needs to overcome certain challenges and produce goods of international standards in order to fully benefit from the Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status granted by the European Union ...
Tags: Garment Industry, Textile products
As per Annex-IX of the EU Regulation-978, the entire textiles and clothing products i.e. HS chapter 50 to 63 are included in GSP Plus Scheme and will be exported duty free from January 1, 2014 although the official Notification will be ...
Tags: Textile Exports, EU
Good government policies can help propel an industry forward but bad ones can hinder development. Although China’s policies are aimed at developing the LED industry, the subsidies have gotten out of control recently, said LEDinside ...
Tags: LED Policies, LED Lighting
Greece's government Wednesday ruled out reducing a tax on heating oil despite a sharp increase in smog resulting from extensive wood-burning. "Reducing the price is not the solution (to the smog problem)," Finance Minister Yannis ...
Tags: Greece, heating oil, extensive wood-burning, tax hikes, energy prices
The French maker of a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis is "extremely disappointed" it was rejected for U.S. sale, a corporate official said. David Meeker, president of Sanofi's Genzyme subsidiary, maker of the drug Lemtrada, said he ...