Image courtesy of Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. The World Customs Organisation and GS1 will be present at the upcoming 7th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from ...
Some 2.12 million counterfeit toys were seized in Europe in 2011 - a whopping 15 per cent of which were confiscated in Romania. In fact, over half of all counterfeit toys seized in Europe (57.11 per cent) were detained in five countries ...
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BASF is taking firm steps to stop the distribution of counterfeit versions of its Irgacure® 819 photoinitiator product. After repeatedly issuing notifications, BASF has contacted distributors identified as offering counterfeit Irgacure ...
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April 12, 2013 - UL is notifying to authorities having jurisdiction, distributors, installers and users that the photovoltaic panels identified below bear counterfeit UL Marks for Canada and the United States. The product is ASP ...
April 12, 2013 - UL is warning the public about a fluorescent luminaire manufactured in March 2008 bearing a counterfeit UL Mark for Canada and the United States. The luminaire has not been evaluated by UL to the appropriate standards for ...
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A billion Chinese each drank 1.4 liters of wine in 2011, or at least that’s how the average plays out. On the surface 1.4 liters doesn’t seem of much consequence — outpaced by America’s 11.2 liters of wine per capita ...
Tags: wine, wine market, wine exports
In an earlier column, we discussed a framework for risk identification. With the understanding that risk lies at the intersection of vulnerability (specific points of weakness in the supply chain) and exposure (financial or production ...
UL is warning consumers, retailers and manufacturers that a medium base lampholder bears a counterfeit UL mark for Canada and the United States. It has not been evaluated by UL to the appropriate standards for safety. It is unknown whether ...
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Farmscrapers are vertical farming on steroids A glass of Hitler Cabernet with a Mussolini chaser Farm murders met with media silence The wine rumors were always there. Whispers and suspicion over various vintages were a constant. But the ...
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Tobacco companies have stated that plain packs could easily be copied, but a new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health said security features could still be used on standard packs. The group said that public ...
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The European Commission has today presented a package of initiatives to make trademark registration systems all over the European Union cheaper, quicker, more reliable and predictable. The proposed reform would improve conditions for ...
Fresh data shows European customs confiscated 2.1 million counterfeit toys in 2011 – a drop of 68 per cent. Comparatively, 6.7 million were seized in 2010. However, this doesn’t mean more fake toys passed by undetected, nor ...
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Related Media Honey laundering trails all lead to China Honey bee toxin may destroy HIV Honey bee losses defy solitary explanations Could a robot honey bee actually pollinate an orchard or crop field? With a carbon fiber body and titanium ...
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Counterfeit food robs Americans of $10 billion each year Californians lose 800,000 acre-feet of water to 305 minnows Golden rice battle only just beginning As we head into a new year, U.S. agriculture faces 2013 filled with opportunities ...
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Rice is king — the food staple of the world. It is also a political lightning rod and the newest battleground in the GM crop war. Golden rice, created in the late 1990s, offers a lifeline to millions of children that die each decade ...
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