The 2013 Horse Scandal (in UK referred as Horsegate) first came into light on 15 January 2013 when horse DNA had been discovered in frozen beefburgers sold in several Irish and British supermarket. Though horse meat is not harmful for human ...
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Chinese dairy producer Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial has announced plans to invest around CNY2bn ($327m) in its Oceania Dairy production base in Waimate, South Island, New Zealand. So far, the company has already invested around CNY1.2bn ...
Chinese dairy producer Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial is planning to invest around CNY2bn ($327m) in its Oceania Dairy production base in New Zealand. The proposed investment will be employed in the construction of a raw milk ...
Tags: Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial, Oceania Dairy production, Agriculture
We all need to eat – and that means we all need food packaging, with most of us handling some form of food pack several times every day. Whether it’s the cereal box at breakfast, the sandwich packet at lunch, perhaps a snack in ...
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Wei Ying-chung, a major stakeholder of Ting Hsin International Group, and four other executives were indicted by prosecutors in Taiwan for selling cooking oil that was contaminated with animal feed. If convicted, Ying-chung will face ...
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The Export Finance and Insurance Corporation’s (EFIC) Export Monitor newsletter considers the outlook for exports to Asia beyond commodities. "Tourism and education exports will continue their rapid expansion, driven by especially ...
US-based egg producer Quality Egg has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a fine of $6.8m for selling substandard eggs with false labeling and tainted products that resulted in nationwide outbreak of salmonella in 2010. Back then, the ...
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As well as giving gamers the chance to enter an online world as a double agent and infiltrate a corrupt government, new online alternate-reality game Apocalypse of MoP also uncovers players' perceptions of provenance and how this affects ...
Anytime a product recall is quickly associated with illnesses it's never good. But for Fonterra, the world's largest dairy processor, the need in the last week to recall 8,700 bottles of cream for E. coli contamination could not have come ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Muscle-Building Exercises Reduce Women's Diabetes Risk: Study Lifting weights and other muscle-building workouts reduce women's risk ...
Beginning March 15, Chinese consumers will have support from the courts in their efforts to sue manufacturers and retailers of unsafe food and pharmaceuticals, according to the South China Morning Post. The ruling, announced last week, ...
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Last week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the U.K. published its Forward Evidence Plan for 2014, outlining priorities for the coming year. The plan is meant to draw the attention of potential research funders and inform stakeholders. ...
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Chinese consumers can expect higher dairy prices in December because of a shrinking supply of raw milk from the country's fragmented milk farms. Most domestic dairy companies put up prices last week, ranging from five to 20 percent. This ...
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Brightest Flashlight Free in an Android app that performs a simple function: It allows an Android phone user to turn on the LED light on the back of his or her phone. Since this LED light is designed for use with a camera, many Android ...
Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has said that the company is quitting the US as a result of repeated official accusations that its networking hardware is used for cyber-surveillance by the Chinese government. In a rare interview, with ...