The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has issued a ban on import of poultry and poultry products from Lower Saxony, Germany over fears of an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. The ...
Tags: Bans Poultry Imports, Food
The Chinese government passed a series of domestic policies in 2012 that have served to not only stimulate LED lighting demand but also to strengthen the entire business momentum within the LED lighting market, according to the ...
Tags: LED Lighting Market, LED, Lighting
A handful of Samsung smartphones infringe an Apple patent on text selection, according to the initial determination of a U.S. International Trade Commission judge. The patent in question concerns the selection of text on the browser of a ...
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has introduced a quota of 10.2 million mt on imports of coal (coking coal, bituminous coal and other types of coal) for 2013 and banned inbound shipments of coke this year in an effort to support local ...
Tags: Coking Coal Import, Coke Imports, Mineral
Indiana companies that use discarded materials such as glass in their products are urging lawmakers to pass a bill requiring refundable deposits on beverages sold in recyclable bottles and cans. Verallio North America vice president ...
Tags: Glass Bottle, Jar, Refund Bill
The Pakistani caretaker government March 26 announced a ban on tinted auto glass and motorcycle helmet visors as part of an effort to improve the law-and-order situation ahead of the May 11 election. "On March 19, Karachi police announced ...
Tags: Auto Glass, Glass, tinted glass
Platos Table announces a grassroots community campaign to eliminate single-use food containers in restaurants in St. Petersburg, FL, targeting polystyrene, brand name Styrofoam. Over 20 local restaurants and food markets have joined this ...
Tags: food packaging, packaging
An overexposure law prohibiting women from wearing skimpy revealing outfits has been passed in South Korea. According to the law, signed by the sovereign state’s newly elected President Park Gyun-he, women who deemed to be ...
An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a patent owned by Motorola Mobility. In a one-paragraph ruling, Judge David P. Shaw gave an ...
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox, Google Patent
The European Commission has pledged to crack down on unfair trade practices by e-commerce sites across the European Union. The promise comes five years after the European Union's first Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which had been ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Google has removed some applications from its Play store that block web advertisements, saying that they violate its rules by interfering with other services. One of the banned applications, Adblock Plus, said it received an email ...
Tags: Google, Ad-Blocking Software, Play Store
Since the turn of the 21st century, there have been efforts to create organizations such as the Muslim Consumer Group that certify food products as halal for Muslim consumers. Since 1991, some mainstream manufacturers of soups, grains, ...
Tags: halal, Halal Certification, Muslim, food products
The latest version of the MISRA-C coding standard for embedded C is due to be released next week. Called MISRA-C:2012, or MISRA C3, in incorporates C99 for the first time, as well as continuing to support C90, where further clarification ...
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“The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” an article by Michael Moss in the New York Times, lights up a lot of dark corners of the junk food industry and offers some genuinely fascinating angles on how Dr. Pepper, ...
Tags: Junk Food, food industry, US
Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corporation, is excited to announce its participation in Pinfa-NA (Phosphorus, Inorganic and Nitrogen Flame Retardants Association-North America). Based in Califon, NJ, Pinfa-NA was ...