The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission has approved the use of recycled sewage water to brew beer. A project has been initiated by Oregon's Clean Water Services to recycle sewage water that can now be used by homebrewers to make ...
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Chinese securities regulators are allowing investors to open up to 20 trading accounts on the A-share market starting today. This will allow investors to transfer their accounts to other brokerage firms. Investors have only been allowed ...
Nearly all food samples tested by European Union officials in 2013 contained legally acceptable amounts of pesticide residue, according to a recent report. The European Food Safety Authority's latest analysis examined nearly 81,000 ...
Tags: Pesticide Standards, pesticide violations, Manufacturing
The government of Canada has announced a $30.7m investment for the establishment of the Food Safety Information Network (FSIN), strengthening country’s effort to enhance food safety. The FSIN will help connect federal and ...
Tags: Food Safety, Canada's investment
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. ...
Barcodes look mysterious. And every now and then an urban myth grows and develops about one or other of their numbers and/or stripes. The most enduring is that barcodes hold insider information about a product’s country of origin. ...
Tags: Elvis, GS1 Barcodes, Packaging
Forget regulators and industry standards, when it comes to packaging, brand owners feel the most pressure from their customers. Not only do they expect brand consistency, but also demand that their food is well preserved, stays fresh for ...
Tags: Brand, Forget regulators, Packaging
Forget regulators and industry standards, when it comes to packaging, brand owners feel the most pressure from their customers. Not only do they expect brand consistency, but also demand that their food is well preserved, stays fresh for ...
It was reported on 25 March 2015 that new Country of Origin Labelling laws will be delayed until at least August 2015 despite the Prime Minister’s announcement on 16 February 2015 that country of origin labelling proposals for reform ...
Tags: FSANZ, dietary supplements, Food
ACCC attacks government’s Competition Review recommendations, while other sectors respond The recommendations published this week in the Harper Competition Review Final Report have been largely welcomed by industry and regulators. ...
Tags: ACCC, Recommendations, Food
Diageo is set to be the first alcohol company to voluntarily provide nutritional information including calories per typical serve and alcohol content on all of its products. The information will be displayed on packaging as well as on its ...
Arkansas-based poultry producer Tyson Foods Inc. has cut out gentamicin, a key human antibiotic, from its hatcheries. The US' largest chicken producer told Reuters that gentamicin and other similar antibiotics had been removed from its 35 ...
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China's two largest trainmakers, CSR Corp and CNR Corp, inched one step closer to their impending merger after getting necessary approvals from overseas antitrust authorities, according to company announcements on Wednesday. The merger ...
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China's high speed rail manufacturers China North Railway (CNR) and China South Railway (CSR) announced that their merger had passed overseas antitrust scrutiny. According to local laws, antitrust regulators -- in this case in Australia, ...
Tags: Transportation, CNR, high speed rail
China's market regulator said Monday the government will strictly regulate online commerce, amid a heated public debate on China's largest online shopping platform Taobao.com which was found to match-make transactions of a great number of ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, market