The US has approved the sale of beef from Ireland for the first time in almost 16 years, a move that comes after easing a ban on European beef imports which have been in place since the BSE crisis in the late 1990s. Ireland is said to ...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Gerber Legendary Blades, a division of Fiskars Brands Inc., of Madison, Wis., has agreed to pay a $2.6 million civil penalty and abide by a permanent injunction. In a ...
Tags: mechanical hazard, federal law, Security
Right now, many elected officials in various places have been moving towards restriction or prohibitions of electronic cigarettes. However, not everyone in the public service sector believes that ecig use has no place in society. There are ...
Sony,Japanese gaming giant, said on Thursday that PlayStation 4 will go on sale in China from January 11,following rival Microsoft into the potentially lucrative market after China ended a 14-year ban. China's censorship regime is ...
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South African Poultry Association has banned the import of poultry products from countries infected with the avian influenza (AI) virus. South African Poultry Association's (SAPA) Poultry Disease Management Agency director Dr Charlotte ...
Tags: Poultry, -Affected Countries
Fonterra, New Zealand's dairy co-operative, has reduced the price it expects to pay farmers for milk, in response to the declining dairy prices in the international market. The price has been reduced to also deal with the glut in ...
Tags: Dairy, milk, Agriculture
Based on actual total installation capacity of 3.79GWp for PV systems set up around China during the first three quarters of 2014, the total installation capacity for the whole year is estimated at 7-10GWp, far short of the target of 14GWp ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV systems, Lights
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that it has joined the Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform, along with the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE). The Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform is a ...
Russian inspection and quarantine bureau will restrict poultry import from America from this Friday, according to a report from RIA Novosti. The report said that inspection and quarantine bureau would restrict the import of poultry ...
Russia to import less meat and dairy products in 2014, the Agriculture Ministry said. The Agriculture Ministry citing the Customs Data said that Russia’s import volume of meat products was 1109300 tons ended by Nov. 24, down 32.6% ...
Tags: meat products, dairy products
Brazil is set to recommence meat exports to Saudi Arabia and China by the end of this year, Brazil’s agriculture minister Neri Geller said. This announcement follows China's decision to remove its ban on Brazilian beef and speed up ...
Tags: Brazilian beef, Agriculture
The company’s chief executive officer Michael Laurier said: “The suggestion by the promoters of the ban that the Member-states were acting in the interests of Symphony is ludicrous. They were acting in the interests of the ...
Tags: shopping bags, plastic packaging, Packaging
Representatives of the oxo-biodegradable industry have expressed happiness over European Council of Member States' decision to reject the ban on the material across the continent. The Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics Association (OPA) also ...
Tags: biodegradable plastics, lightweight plastic, Agriculture
The Gaza Ministry of Agriculture is set to impose a ban on fruit imports from Israel, in a move to pressure Israel to allow vegetable exports from Gaza. Earlier this week, Israel stopped the vegetable produce from Gaza entering the ...
Tags: vegetable, Israeli Fruit, Agriculture
Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog has banned the import of meat and dairy products from eight Belarussian companies. The banned companies include Agrokombinat Skidelsky, Vitebsk Broiler Poultry Plant, Servolux Agro, ...
Tags: Meat, dairy imports, Agriculture