Future food labelling and product safety laws could be scrapped if legal pressure from multinational companies increases as a result of clauses within the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Consumer advocacy group Choice has ...
Tags: Food Label, TPP, Product safety laws
WASHINGTON (FERN's Ag Insider) - This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $24 million grant to Cornell University, funding a global wheat research group, known as Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat. The aim is to develop new ...
Tags: Stem-Rust Disease, Wheat
Laminam has acquired the Balabanovo factory in Russia Laminam has acquired a majority shareholding in the company “Laminam Rus” and in the ownership of the Balabanovo factory in Russia. The acquisition was signed on March ...
Tags: Laminam, Balabanovo Factory, Aquisition
Projectors usually need hooking up to a set-top box, games console or other device to turn your lounge into a home cinema. But not the Z4 Aurora. It runs Android, so connect it to your Wi-Fi and you can access Netflix, Amazon Prime ...
Tags: Z4 Aurora, Android, Built-in speaker
The plan to launch China's first crude oil futures contract is facing more roadblocks as the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, or INE, comes under government review, a senior official close to the matter said Monday. "The target ...
Tags: Crude Futures, Crude Oil
Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has today announced that the ‘effects test’ will be introduced into the Australian Competition and Consumer Act. Introducing the test will change Section 46 of the Competition and ...
Tags: PM, Effect test, ACCC, Consumer Act
The UK government has confirmed that it will start trialling driverless lorry technology in the UK. Earlier in the month the Department for Transport said that the UK was to lead the way in trialling "HGV platoons". Now the Chancellor ...
BMW has announced a new strategy under which it would focus on electric vehicle technology, autonomous driving technology and invest in new technology to complete against companies like Google and Uber. It will focus on broadening its ...
Tags: BMW, Vehicle technology, Automated driving, Goole, Uber
The Government's plans to change Sunday trading laws in England and Wales, which would allow larger shops to trade for more than six hours, have been scrapped after being rejected by MPs. The plans were rejected by 317 votes to 286, ...
Tags: Sunday trading laws, Large shops, MPs
UK retail footfall in February was 1.1% down on a year ago – lower than the 1.2% rise seen in January and the three-month average rate of -0.8% – according to the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor. ...
Tags: BRC, Retail football, Goverment support
Cargill is cutting back on the amount of antibiotics used on its U.S. cattle supply by 20%. This decision will influence 1.2 million cattle annually, none of which use any type of antibiotics for growth promotion that are important for ...
Tags: Cargill, Antibiotic, Cattle supply, Beef
Children should learn mainly though play up until the age of eight, says head of LEGO Foundation Hanne Rasmussen. The LEGO Group has put £4 million into a new LEGO Professorship at Cambridge University to help forward research in ...
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has issued a statement regarding the US ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, PICs, ZTE
New appointments at Hangrohe SE Hansgrohe SE has recently announced two major new appointments. The first one is of Thomas Knobloch joining Hansgrohe SE as Vice President of Sales for The Americas, to be effective from April 1, 2016. ...
Tags: Appointment, Hangrohe SE, Vice president, Dirk Schilmller
The universities of Virginia and of Texas in the USA have been developing avalanche photodiodes (APDs) based on aluminium indium arsenide antimonide (AlInAsSb) alloys. Two papers from the group detail the implementation of a staircase ...