Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco have sued the UK Government over plain packaging regulations for cigarettes. In their lawsuits filed in the English High Court, the twocompanies claim that the new ...
Tags: Plain Packaging, Tobacco Packaging
Cone Denim of the US, a global leader in denim authenticity and innovation has announced that its Cone Denim Jiaxing (CDJ) facility has received Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certification on selected denim products. Located in China’s ...
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In a major setback to efforts to ban plastic bags, Arizona lawmakers have made it illegal for cities to impose bag bans through a recent legislation. Arizona Retailers Association and the Arizona Food Marketing Alliance, which ...
Tags: Arizona, Plastic Bags, Packaging
China's market regulators are investigating foreign medical-equipment makers over suspicion that they may have paid bribes or used illegal strategies to achieve market dominance, according to some people familiar with the matter. ...
China will reform the resource tax of several natural resources and cut unnecessary fees starting from May, according to a statement released after a State Council executive meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday. Resource ...
Tags: Resource Tax, Resource Fees
Local governments are taking action to respond to the central government's appeal to popularize new energy vehicles across the nation. Earlier this month, Beijing authorities announced that pure electric vehicles would not be affected by ...
Removing parallel import restrictions would “promote competition and potentially lower prices for consumers”, according to one of the recommendations from the Harper Competition Review Final Report, released last week. ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded that German apparel and footwear brands should promote workers’ rights in their global operations by publicly disclosing names of factories producing their products. “Supply chain ...
Taiwan has recalled food products illegally imported from five Japanese regions affected by the earthquake in 2011 and consequent nuclear disaster. According to Food and Drug Administration director General Chiang Yu-mei, country's health ...
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China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce has issued new guidelines to protect the rights of consumers who purchase goods online. Chinese authorities do not require C2C traders to register with local business administration ...
Tags: online shopping, e-commerce market
China's central bank is entitled to impose restrictive examinations on gold and gold production, according to a guideline issued Thursday. In accordance with macro control, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) demands that all the gold and ...
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Nestle Malaysia has launched a campaign to educate its consumers about spotting fake products after Malaysian authorities seized imitations of Milo chocolate drink worth RM250,000 (S$94,058) in Negeri Sembilan. The raid conducted by the ...
Tags: Nestle Malaysia, spotting fake products, Milo chocolate drink
US president Barrack Obama-led task force has drafted a 40-page report planning to curb black-market fishing and mislabelling of seafood, which costs the US and the world billions of dollars of fishing revenue. The US stands second after ...
Tags: Seafood Fraud, seafood, crustaceans
As more global fast food chains rush to China for expansion, they also have to face the costly headaches in a fast-changing food supply environment plagued by repeated safety scandals. Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp recently announced ...
Tags: fast food, Food Production Monitor