The US state of Ohio has passed a bill that will impose a ban on the sale of powdered alcohol product, Palcohol, across the state as it may cause health risks on consumption. The Palcohol is a white powder, which when mixed with water can ...
The rise of obesity levels has led to a huge boost in the number of people dieting in the UK. In turn, this has caused needless emotional distress, guilt and low self-esteem for people that ‘break’ their diets with snacking, ...
Tags: Diet Highlights Problems, Food Consumption, Agriculture
Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor has imposed a ban on meat imports from Montenegro citing illegal export practices. The agency claimed that the EU is allegedly smuggling its meat to Russia under labels of Montenegro, TASS ...
Tags: Illegal re-exports of meat products, food safety, Agriculture
Ukraine has imposed a ban on all live birds and bird product imports from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany over bird flu outbreak. The ban will continue until the international watchdog ensures that these countries are free from bird ...
Tags: bird flu, bird product imports, Agriculture
The European Commission will offer €28m in financing for milk producers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in response to the ban imposed by Russia on certain EU agricultural product imports. Based on individual milk production levels ...
Tags: milk producers, EU agricultural product imports, Agriculture
The European Commission has approved a €28m financing package for milk producers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The move comes in response to the Russian ban on the import of certain EU agricultural products. Of the total ...
The government of the northeast Indian state of Mizoram is considering imposition of entry tax on products purchased online, according to the state finance minister Lalsawta, a press agency said. Speaking in the state Legislative Assembly ...
Tags: tax on products, ecommerce market, Apparel
Never in a million years would I have expected to be living the life that I live now. I grew up as a Chinese American in the suburbs of the United States of America, studied Accounting at the University of Washington in Seattle, and started ...
Israeli dairy processor Tnuva is looking at the possibilities of exporting cheese to Russia, with a hope to fill in the gap created due to the one-year ban on food imports from Europe and the US. In 2013, Russia imported 250,000 tons of ...
Tags: Israeli dairy processor, exporting cheese, Agriculture
The Russian government is set to import meat and dairy products from Israel by the end of this year, said Russian Deputy Economic Development Minister Aleksey Likhachyov. This follows Russia's one-year ban on the import of certain food ...
Some of US-based polysilicon suppliers are building up their inventories in preparation for the China market, as they anticipate a settelment between Beijing and Washington on their solar trade war, according to industry sources in Taiwan. ...
Tags: Polysilicon, China Market
I am writing to you on behalf of the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare), an alliance of 57 public health organisations from 25 European countries working on the prevention and reduction of alcohol related harm. Improving road ...
Tags: road safety, alcohol sponsorship of Formula One, Agriculture
China has eased the ban on New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra’s whey powder and dairy base powder imports which are used as ingredients in infant formula production. Fonterra will now be able to sell the ingredients to infant ...
Tags: infant milk, Agriculture
China has lifted the import ban on New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra’s whey powder and dairy base powder, which are used as ingredients in the manufacture of infant formula. The ban was imposed in August last year on the two ...
Tags: Infant Formula, Milk Powder