The Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has announced a call for submissions on a proposal, which if approved, would include requirements to allow for the safe production of a wider range of raw milk products. The Food Standards ...
The only thing that is certain is that compliance is more easily mandated than achieved. It always takes time, and a lot of it. The RoHS2 (also called the RoHS Recast) was drafted in 2008 with an eye toward restricting hazardous ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
A federal district judge has issued injunctions against four California companies and six individuals barring them from importing, selling and distributing children's products containing hazardous levels of lead and phthalates and small ...
Tags: Service, Children's Products, Toy
Australia and China to increase co-operation on mergers regulation The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) have signed a memorandum of understanding ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Business
The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) announces that Juanita D. Duggan, an experienced trade association executive and lobbyist, will join the association on July 1 as President & CEO. "Juanita has demonstrated time and ...
Today, a Milwaukee pesticide manufacturer paid a $738,000 civil penalty to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for advertising "Rozol Prairie Dog Bait" (Rozol PD) without identifying it as a "restricted use" pesticide, and for ...
Tags: EPA, Service, Certification
US natural gas demand could increase by 3 Bcf/d to 10 Bcf/d by 2020 under an expected Environmental Protection Agency plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, analysts said Friday. Using its authority under the Clean Air ...
Tags: Gas Demand, natural gas
The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group (The Golf Group) announced the convictions and sentences in China of seven men charged with manufacturing and selling counterfeit golf products, another critical step in the Golf ...
U.S. companies are crying foul over China’s oversight of monopoly and pricing issues, as antitrust enforcement threatens to further sour Sino-American business ties already damaged by a row over cyber espionage. The U.S. Chamber of ...
Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET), one of the world's largest producers of titanium parts for jet engines, has agreed to pay a record $13.75 million civil penalty and perform an extensive investigation and cleanup of potential ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Service, Energy
Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET), one of the world's largest producers of titanium parts for jet engines, has agreed to pay a record $13.75 million civil penalty and perform an extensive investigation and cleanup of potential ...
Tags: Titanium, EPA, Certification, Service
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, completed nearly 100 environmental compliance and enforcement actions in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington from July 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013. Violations of environmental ...
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The Vegetable Oil Industry of Canada (VOIC) congratulates the government of Saskatchewan and the other western provinces for their success in obtaining an internal trade panel ruling that calls on Quebec to immediately cease enforcement and ...
Tags: Vegetable Oil, Food Products
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has revised its 'Advertising and selling guide' to help educate businesses about their legal rights and obligations when selling and promoting their products and services. With the supply ...
Tags: ACCC, certification
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has kicked off an additional program to ensure priority testing of lamb dishes from takeaway restaurants across the country, and prosecute the businesses if found to be deliberately mislabeling foods. ...
Tags: Lamb Meat, Substitution Testing