China’s government officials began the year with assurances to the world that 2013 would mark a new era of food safety. The bureaucrats were still patting each other on the back, when in March, a flotilla of 16,000 dead hogs bobbed ...
Tags: Food Safety, China
A new London based system will allow consumers to verify directly with the brand if a product is real or fake before they buy, using their smartphone. The system, called Authicode, can even be set to share details like where and when ...
Tags: Smartphone Apps, Counterfeits, UK
The Bike Cooperative is working with Channel IQ to offer its supplier partners discounts on MAP monitoring and enforcement, dealer verification, and detection of gray market and counterfeit goods and unauthorized dealers. Channel IQ ...
Tags: Bike, MAP Monitoring
May 16, 2013 - UL is notifying consumers and retailers that the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) identified below bears a counterfeit UL Mark for Canada and the United States. It has not been evaluated by UL to the appropriate standards for ...
Pfizer has launched its counterfeit medicine Viagra (sildenafil citrate) tablets home delivery, a new prescription-fulfillment website for Viagra. Powered by CVS/pharmacy and accessible through Viagra.com, the site offers men with ...
Tags: Pfizer, Viagra Tablets
The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
There is now a way to differentiate between designer clothing and knockoffs. Chalmers researcher Christian Müller has produced a thread with unique optical properties, which can be used to create invisible patterns in fabrics that are ...
Presented by 3C Integrity managing director Christoph Kr?henbühl (pic) in association with pharmaceutical coding specialist Sunala, the seminar will demonstrate how, although certain aspects of the directive will not be known until ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Medicines Directive
Federal officials have seized 10 web domains that were allegedly selling counterfeit products including Specialized bikes, clothing and shoes. Officials said other bike vendors including SRAM, Cervelo and Pinarello assisted in their ...
When eBay launched in 1995, the premise was simple: allow consumers to sell their unwanted goods to others via online auctions. Today, the multi-billion dollar business has localised sites in over 30 countries. Over 190,000 businesses ...
Tags: Toy Industry, Toys
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized 10 websites that illegally sold trademarked cycling apparel and equipment globally. The initiative, which began in 2010, was in ...
A report in The Sun this morning, which the paper is claiming as an exclusive, claimed that the Prime Minister has been persuaded by the argument that so-called plain packaging legislation would damage the packaging industry. Cameron is ...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed publication of the 2013 Special 301 Report by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). The Special 301 Report is an annual assessment of global intellectual property ...
A Dutch citizen arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country, officials say. The ...
Tags: Cyberattack, Computer Products
1. Woolly and Tig toys to launch two months early 2. Official Woolly and Tig toys out July 2013 (later changed to May) 3. Consumers plea for EDF Energy toy advert Zingy 4. Harry Style boosts Scrabble brand 5. Romania is counterfeit ...
Tags: Toys