Alcohol Justice and the California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA) are reporting that the first of two proposed bills to ban powdered alcohol in California has been passed by the powerful California Senate Governmental Organization (GO) ...
Tags: Powdered Alcohol, CAPA, GO, SB819
Nestle India is planning to re-introduce chicken variant in its Maggi Noodles that were relaunched in the country last November. The food company is planning to make the new variant available through online retailer Snapdeal. It had ...
Tags: Snapdeal, Nestle India
The first quality standards for pollution filter masks will take effect on March 1 in a bid to regulate the rapidly growing domestic market. The Group Standard on Protective Masks against PM 2.5 was released on Jan 18, with the goal to ...
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Indian food regulatory authority, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, is likely to do away with approvals for food products if the ingredients used in them have received clearance before itself and are declared safe. This ...
Online retailer Snapdeal has landed in trouble for allegedly selling Maggi Noodles online during the period of its ban across five Indian states. A first information report (FIR) was filed by a Jaipur-based lawyer against Snapdeal CEO ...
Tags: Snapdeal, Maggi Noodles
South Korea has stalled the imports of US poultry and poultry meat following new cases of bird flu. This ban comes just two months after the Asian country resumed the shipments. However, imports of poultry meat treated with heat are not ...
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Economists and insiders are calling for more effective goverment supervision as a year of wild swings in China's stock market is coming to an end. China fought an unprecedented and costly war in 2015 to contain wide stock market ...
A draft amendment to the population and family planning law is being discussed by the top legislature. Along with the universal two-child policy, the amendment covers issues including illegal surrogacy and the cancellation of extended ...
Tags: Surrogacy, Late Marriage
21 Dec 2015 Tobacco giant Philip Morris has lost its fight against the plain packaging laws that it claimed would threaten the intellectual property of its brands. The company behind Marlboro, Peter Jackson and Longbeach cigarettes has ...
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Nestle India is planning to launch more variants of Maggi Noodles such as oat noodles and cup noodles in the next three-four months time. Nestle India CMD Suresh Narayanan was quoted by the Economic Times as saying: "We will launch other ...
Tags: Nestle India, Maggi Noodles, Food
Brent oil price hit 11-year low Monday as the market continued to be plagued by an oversupply of crude oil and weakening demand. Brent crude for February delivery decreased 53 cents to close at 36.35 U.S. dollars a barrel on the London ...
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Myanmar Brewery Limited (MBL), the producer of Myanmar beer, is revamping its brand image and products in order to enhance its appeal with the country’s consumers as global giants such as Heineken and Carlsberg stiffen the competition ...
From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French ...
China called for implementation on Saturday after a historic deal was sealed in Paris on global efforts to combat climate change. The Paris agreement on climate change was adopted with no objection by the 196 Parties of the United Nations ...
A red alert for air pollution is going to take effect starting from this Saturday morning in Beijing. This is the second time this month that the highest level warning has issued for the Chinese capital. Emergency measures include an ...
Tags: Red Alert, Air Pollution