The UK government is likely to scrap the plan to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol in England and Wales, and instead target loss-leader deals. According to reports, Home Secretary Theresa May will address Members of Parliament this ...
India’s Health ministry is planning to organize an inter-ministerial meeting to inspect that the current foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in the pharma industry is not at the cost of the public health goals. The Department of ...
Several influential environmental groups are gearing up to sue the Obama administration for refusing to regulate US coal mines as major emitters of methane, a greenhouse gas that many scientists say is fueling climate change. Ashley ...
The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has criticized the European Parliament for approving the European Commission's proposal to temporarily remove 900 million CO2 emissions allowances from the market. According to the European ...
Tags: Carbon Allowances, Mineral
Nestlé UK & Ireland are set to implement a new nutrition labeling scheme, which has been created by the Department of Health to provide shoppers in the UK with consistent labeling. Said to be the latest food pledge in the ...
Tags: Packaging, Labeling Scheme, Nestle
A new front-of-pack food label that has the support of big brands, health groups and all the major supermarkets was launched yesterday. Food sold in packaging will be colour coded according to a red, amber and green scheme to show how ...
Tags: food label, label, Packaging, Printing
Truth, the nation’s largest youth smoking prevention campaign, today launched its latest mobile game, Graffiti Collective. In Graffiti Collective, players use their creative skills to create on-screen graffiti that can be geo-tagged ...
Tags: Graffiti Collective, Mobile Game
Food companies including Mars, Nestle, PepsiCo, and Premier Foods have signed up to the new consistent front-of-pack nutritional label scheme introduced by the UK Government. The new labeling scheme has been launched on food products to ...
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UK has unveiled a new front-of-pack nutrition labelling system, which will make it easier for consumers to make healthier choices about the food they eat. The new labelling system is colour-coded red, amber and green, and is designed to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, nutrition labelling system, Packaging, Printing
NSF Sustainability, a division of global independent public health organization NSF International, has verified an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for a broad variety of nylon carpet styles and colors manufactured by Mannington ...
Tags: NSF Sustainability, Carpet Tiles, EDP
NSF Sustainability, a division of global independent public health organization NSF International, has verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for J+J Flooring Group’s Kinetex flooring product and Invision brand modular ...
Tags: J+J Flooring, NSF Sustainability, Environmental Product
US-based drug store chain Walgreens has agreed to reimburse a monetary penalty of $80m to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to settle the charges of violating federal regulations governing the distribution of prescription ...
Tags: Walgreens, Illegal Prescription
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing new requirements for labeling beef products that have been mechanically tenderized, including adding new cooking instructions, so that ...
Earlier this week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requested that Chrysler initiate a safety recall of the 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2002-2007 Jeep Liberty to address a performance and design defect. NHTSA ...
UNION leaders are demanding a halt to the National Broadband Network to ensure an end to asbestos exposure as they put forward a plan to dispatch independent assessors across the project to check on the danger to public health. The union ...
Tags: NBN, Asbestos Safety