The Thailand Textile Institute (TTI) and the Department of Industrial Promotion (DIP) have joined hands to develop textile production under One Tambon (sub-district) One Product (OTOP) program. As per the understanding, both TTI and ...
Tags: DIP, TTI, Textile, Apparel, Accessories
SCHWING announces their participation in the upcoming ITMA and CITME ASIA 2014 exhibition in Shanghai by exhibiting in Hall W1, Booth F14. They will be demonstrating their equipment by highlighting the latest advanced thermal cleaning ...
Iraq exported 2.509 million b/d of crude in April, all from its southern oil terminals as the country's northern export pipeline remained inoperable. April exports were 112,000 b/d more than the 2.397 b/d exported from the country in ...
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The CGFDC oversees two Green Food Standards: A (which allows some use of synthetic agricultural chemicals) and AA (which is more stringent, allowing less use of such chemicals, and is consequently less popular with agricultural producers). ...
Best Practices for Bearing ProtectionAdam Willwerth, Sales and Marketing Manager, Electro Static Technology Voltages arcing through the bearings of VFD-driven motors create thousands of pits, which cause increased friction and noise and ...
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H&M is committed to ensure that its fabrics are not coming from the worlds remaining ancient and endangered forest. H&M to together with the not-for-profit environmental organization Canopy by June 2014 put a plan in place to avoid ...
Tags: Fabrics, H&M, alternate fibres
UVOTECH Systems Inc of Concord, CA, USA, a manufacturer and distributor of surface treatment equipment, has launched the Model HELIOS-500 UV-ozone cleaning system, the first product in the firm's HELIOS series of UV-ozone cleaners. ...
Normally, Andrej Shevchenko and his team at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden analyse proteins and fats in the cells of fruit flies or roundworms. In this case, however, the scientists dealt with ...
Tags: cheese, proteins, production method
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published eight warning letters last week that were issued to food manufacturers and processors mainly in February. Reyskens Dairy in Custer, OH, and Ed Vander Woude Dairy in San Jacinto, CA, received ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published nine warning letters it issued to food manufacturers and processors at the end of January and the start of February. Orth Farms of Eaton, NY, B & E Dairy of Barstow, CA, and Hillegass ...
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Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) are developing quality control systems for unprocessed and processed food items using infrared technology. Funded by an Australian Research Council grant, the project is aimed ...
Tags: Infrared Technology, Food Quality
Age is a key risk factor for breast cancer. A recent study by researchers from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), "Age-related DNA methylation in normal breast tissue and its relationship with invasive breast tumor ...
Tags: breast cancer, Epigenetics, connection between cancer and the aging
In the first month of 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 11 warning letters to food manufacturers and processors. The first two warning letters of the year were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a ...
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Four pesticides commonly used on crops to kill insects and fungi also kill honeybee larvae within their hives,according to Penn State and University of Florida researchers.The team also found that N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone(NMP)—an ...
Tags: Pesticides, Crop Pesticides, kill insects
The first warning letters of the year issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a dairy operator in Pennsylvania. A warning letter is FDA’s principal means of ...
Tags: FDA, HACCP, violation, Nobuo T.Hawaii