The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has kicked off an additional program to ensure priority testing of lamb dishes from takeaway restaurants across the country, and prosecute the businesses if found to be deliberately mislabeling foods. ...
Tags: Lamb Meat, Substitution Testing
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today confirmed details of a new round of tests of beef products for horse meat contamination. The tests have been requested by the European Commission as part of the follow-up to last year's horse meat ...
Tags: FSA, certification, Agriculture, Food
HQE is a trademark that is registered internationally and is the exclusive property of the HQE Association. HQE certification is managed by the operator, Cerway, in all countries except France. For over 20 years, the HQETM movement has ...
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Italy’s textile machinery sector displays its latest technology to Russian textile manufacturers at a technology seminar to be held in Ivanovo on 9 April. Raffaella Carabelli (President of ACIMIT): “Italian businesses are ready ...
Recycling campaigns are not without their detractors as their results are often met with more than a little scepticism and their long-term value often questioned. However, a number of communication programmes, developed by the Aluminium ...
Tags: Packaging Recycling, Packaging
The UK plans to ban retailers from selling alcohol at below-cost prices before the start of the FIFA World Cup finals this summer, in an attempt to limit excess drinking. The Government has established 'cost' as the amount of 'duty plus ...
Tags: Cheap Alcohol Sale, alcohol
China saw its aggregate volume of natural gas imported from overseas jump 25 percent year on year in 2013, approaching one-third of its apparent consumption, a new report has showed. The country imported 53 billion cubic meters of natural ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Chemicals
Proposals for future ship building facilities unveiled Friday, Feb 07, 2014 There are two potential investment options ahead of public consultations which are due to be held near to our ship yards in Govan and Scotstoun next week. The ...
Tags: Ship Building, Transportation, Service
South Korea's SK Innovation has suspended construction of an almost completed paraxylene plant in Incheon, in the country's west coast, after local authorities accused the company of violating the city's building codes, the company said ...
Tags: SK, innovation, Seo-gu, Platts
UK-based recycling services provider Viridor will ivest 25m pounds in the development of a new glass recycling facility at Newhouse in Lanarkshire. The new facility, which will be located adjacent to the M8 motorway, will operate with a ...
Tags: M8 motorway, Viridor, product purity, Newhouse
Further to Josh Brooks’ comments in The Answer To The Litter Problem Is Simple: Stop Littering (Packaging News, Monday, January 20) we at LINPAC Packaging would like to add our own views on the issues surrounding litter and the ...
The Chinese subsidiary of Haikui Seafood AG has successfully signed an agreement regarding the acquisition of land use rights with the local authorities in Dongshan, paving the way for the construction of its new production site. The ...
Tags: Land Use Agreement, Haikui Seafood
Electronic device producer, Murata Manufacturing is installing a 1.6MW solar power array at its subsidiary Tokyo Denpa’s (TEW) Gunma Plant. The factory, in the Gunma Prefecture, Japan, manufactures automobile parts. Construction ...
Tags: TEW, Murata Manufacturing, Gunma Prefecture, Sharp Corporation
Headquartered in a traditional courtyard in downtown Beijing, Tongrentang (TRT), a pharmaceutical giant with a history of more than 300 years, is increasing its international reach with its legacy products: traditional Chinese medicine ...
Tags: TCM Companies, Global Market
The announcement of the 12-month contract is the latest in a trend which has seen a growing portion of the industry move away from spot trading and instead develop long term collaborations, and advancing the circular-economy model. These ...
Tags: Eco Plastics, Viridor, Recycled Bottles