At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
Tags: Chicken, Apples, Oranges, gut bacteria, Salmonella, Food Safety
The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has welcomed the European Parliament's approval of a resolution demanding technically and economically feasible climate and energy targets for Europe's steelmakers within the European Union's steel ...
Tags: Steel Action Plan, European Steel Association, climate and energy policy
Huntsman Corporation and Rockwood Holdings, Inc. have completed an important milestone in Huntsman's pending acquisition of Rockwood's Performance Additives and titanium dioxide (TiO2) businesses. The waiting period under the ...
Tags: titanium dioxide
Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. Weekly export sales were lower than expected, but still more than what's needed to meet USDA projections and it was a good week for shipments. Around ten to fifteen percent of ...
Tags: Soybean, Agriculture, Food
OILSEEDS: U.S. soybean supplies are increased 5 million bushels to 3.46 billion on higher projected imports, mainly from Canada. Soybean exports for 2013/14 are projected at 1.51 billion bushels, up 15 million from last month reflecting the ...
Tags: Soybean Exports, oilseed
U.S. wheat ending stocks for 2013/14 are projected 50 million bushels lower as higher expected food use and exports more than offset an increase in projected imports. Imports are raised 10 million bushels as railroad backlogs and other ...
Tags: Wheat Stocks
In December last year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production decreased by 0.7 percent in both the euro area and in the EU-28 as compared with November, while industrial production in November had increased by 1.6 percent and by 1.3 ...
Tags: Industrial Output, capital goods
On behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz,Parliamentary Secretary Pierre Lemieux(Glengarry-Prescott-Russell)and Member of Parliament(MP)Mark Warawa(Langley)announced today an investment of over$2.8 million for the development of ...
Tags: Horticulture, B.C.berry, berry
Exports of leather and footwear from Vietnam touched US$ 10.3 billion during 2013, indicating an increase of 18 percent compared to 2012, as per the data released by Viet Nam Leather and Footwear Association (LEFASO). According to the ...
Textile and clothing exports from the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia touched €733 million in 2013, recording a rise of 3 percent year-on-year, as per the data released by the Center of Information of Textile and Apparel ...
Tags: Textile Exports, clothing
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q1 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association(EUROFER),in 2013 European Union(EU)steel exports decreased by almost 2.5 percent year on year.In the ...
Tags: Flat Products, Steel Market, steel
Real steel consumption in the European Union is estimated to have fallen by slightly less than two percent in 2013, according to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q1 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European ...
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Polish biodiesel production jumped almost 11% on the year to 184,684 mt in the third quarter of 2013, the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) said Thursday. A local market source attributed the rise to strong downstream diesel demand bolstering ...
Tags: Biodiesel Production, Chemicals
BEIJING-A preliminary ruling by the Ministry of Commerce on Friday said solar-grade polysilicon from the European Union(EU)has been dumped in the Chinese market. Solar-grade polysilicon from the EU was subsidized and as a ...
Tags: Eu Polysilicon, Polysilicon, solar cells, solar
As India tries to power its emerging economy, it will look beyond coal to offshore wind energy. And, it will be getting some help from the European Union, which will be coming up with a roadmap and help with financing. The plan, which ...
Tags: Global Wind Energy Council, Offshore Wind Power Development, electricity