Chickens showed symptoms of avian flu at a farm in a village in the province of Guizhou in China where 8,500 chickens died in December, officials say. Officials at the Ministry of Agriculture in China said the fowl died Dec. 27 and the ...
Tags: Bird Flu, Health, Agriculture
China's principal quality watchdog announced that quarantine authorities disqualified 63 batches of imported food last month. The disqualifications were mainly in 14 food products including sugar, wine and biscuits, and involved microbial ...
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China's state environmental watchdog on Wednesday urged local environmental departments to make air quality information public and respond to public concerns in a timely manner. Statistics from the national air quality monitoring network ...
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued an alert on turkey butterflies from Severnside Provisions in Newport, South Wales, as they have been processed in an unapproved establishment. On 21 December, the agency alerted local ...
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Michael Lippert, of Saft Energy Storage Systems, explains how the SmartRegion Pellworm project will enable an island off the North Sea coast of Germany to increase self-consumption of its own renewable energy Pellworm Island presents a ...
Tags: Blueprint, SmartRegion Pellworm project, Michael Lippert
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of handsets, memory chips and televisions, will invest 1.7 billion U.S. dollars in its plant in east China's Jiangsu Province in the coming five years, local authorities said Sunday. The ...
Tags: Samsung, Jiangsu Plant, Big Investing
Tackling excess capacity will be one of the top tasks on China's economic agenda in 2014, as the issue becomes a major challenge to maintaining the pace and quality of economic growth. "The Chinese economy still faces downward pressure ...
Tags: Slashing Capacity, Mineral
Consultants in Print Limited (CIP), has announced that it has successfully helped to win over £18m worth of contracts for its clients after just two years of operation. CIP is a consultancy providing support and advice in the ...
Tags: Office Supplies
A long-running spat between Changqing oil field and Yulin government in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has moved a step closer to being resolved after 21 of the oil and gas producer's 22 bank accounts were unfrozen. A Yulin government ...
Tags: Eco-Compensation, Oil Producer
Ardagh claimed three of the top prizes at the annual UK Packaging Awards presented at a glittering ceremony in London. Josh Brooks ( Event Organiser) Robert Fell (R&D Manager, Aerosol & Speciality Containers, Ardagh, Crosmières), ...
Tags: decoration, vehicle-glass
Traditional grocery product and packaging waste in the grocery supply chain was reportedly decreased 7.4% under the Courtauld Commitment Phase 2 agreement, an increase compared to the expected target of 5%, according to a report from WRAP. ...
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Select restaurants, tourist attractions and construction projects have been shuttered around the pollution-plagued Danjiangkou reservoir in central China, the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced on Tuesday. The reservoir, the ...
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Domestic spot prices of high carbon ferrochrome (50% basis Cr) in China Wednesday held steady on the week at Yuan 6,850-7,000/mt (85-86.5 cents/lb), on a delivered basis including 17% VAT, despite a cut in the December bid price by Jiuquan ...
Tags: high carbon ferrochrome, Energy
The FSA is making local authorities aware that various dried fish products have been packaged in an unapproved establishment, trading as Africa Choice. If you have bought one of the listed products, displaying the approval number UK OL026 ...
Tags: Dried Fishery Products, Food
The spot price for South African charge chrome (48-52% Cr) was assessed at 83-84 cents/pound CIF China Friday, down from 83-85 cents/lb CIF China assessed the previous week, amid slow demand. The spot price of Indian-origin high carbon ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy