The Beer Institute announced a new initiative that encourages its member companies to display specific consumer information on products, packaging or websites. The Brewers' Voluntary Disclosure Initiative is an important new approach by ...
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Alcohol Justice and the California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA) are reporting that the first of two proposed bills to ban powdered alcohol in California has been passed by the powerful California Senate Governmental Organization (GO) ...
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The Victorian government banned the sale of powdered alcohol with effect from 1 July 2015, and is urging other States to follow suit, in the wake of a new powdered-alcohol product ‘Palcohol’. The Victorian Minister for ...
It was reported on 25 March 2015 that new Country of Origin Labelling laws will be delayed until at least August 2015 despite the Prime Minister’s announcement on 16 February 2015 that country of origin labelling proposals for reform ...
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Grover Norquist and Paul Blair of Americans for Tax Reform (president and state affairs manager, respectively) recently published an article on National Review where they discussed about how electronic cigarettes bare the truth about public ...
Tags: Electronic Cigarettes, Public Health Deception, Consumer Electronics
The US state of Ohio has passed a bill that will impose a ban on the sale of powdered alcohol product, Palcohol, across the state as it may cause health risks on consumption. The Palcohol is a white powder, which when mixed with water can ...
Alonzo Pierce, CEO of Top Shelf Brands Holdings, s pleased to announce that the company received notice from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) that its Advertising, Labeling and Formulation Division (AFLD) has approved, ...
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Before the measure was introduced in December 2012, daily smoking prevalence stood at 15.1% and has now fallen to 12.8%, the 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey reveals. Standardised packaging is the only new policy intervention ...
China's anti-smoking efforts in the past decade have failed to limit the explosive growth of the country's cigarette producers, according to a new report. Annual cigarette production in the world's most populous country has jumped 50 ...
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Appalachian Mountain Brewery has signed a letter of intent to acquire North Carolina Natural Energy (NCNE), in a strategic move to prepare for wholesale distribution of its craft beer. Based in Florida, North Carolina Natural Energy ...
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Anti-tobacco activists in Ireland have condemned as inadequate the latest tobacco duty rise of 10 cents, according to a story in Northern Ireland's Belfast Telegraph. The Irish Cancer Society accused the government of applying a ...
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On May 28, 2013, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) issued a ruling (Ruling 2013-2) that allows alcohol beverage industry members to provide consumers with nutritional information about their products and provides guidelines ...
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/29/2013 7:59:08 AM Blue Ice Vodka, an American potato vodka produced at Distilled Resources Inc. in Rigby, ID, is the first spirit brand in the country to feature a ...
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US-based 21st Century Spirits has launched its potato vodka, Blue Ice Vodka with a ‘Gluten Free’ designation on the package label. The designation appears on the Blue Ice vodka label in the form of a red badge labeled, 'Gluten ...
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US public interest groups - Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumer Federation of America, National Consumers League and Shape Up America! - have proposed Treasury Department to finalize the rules for standardizing the alcoholic ...