More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...
Tags: local food, organic food, farming
Diana San Diego says suggestions that wired glass could have saved lives at the sites of various school shootings across the country by stopping bullets in their tracks or preventing forced entry are “false and potentially ...
Tags: Glass Experts, School Shootings
Home fires are often unpredictable, and they can be deadly. That's why you need one full-floor, multipurpose fire extinguisher on each level of your home and one in your garage, plus smaller, supplemental units for the kitchen and car. ...
The sunny picture of the Bangladesh readymade garments sector has changed and the industry is now at crossroads—the time to act is now and cost of inaction could be high, the World Bank has said in its ‘Bangladesh Development ...
Tags: Garment Industry, World Bank
The statistics can be staggering: one in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning this year (that's nearly 53 million people). A very likely place for food poisoning is in the home: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Disposing of e waste following a proper procedure is very important to avoid any serious hazard to the environment and life existing on it. There are many adverse effects that are caused of e waste and even, it can also cause some deadly ...
Food and beverage packaging facilities can improve production efficiency and sanitation by upgrading processing conveyors and machines used in packing, sealing and cartoning. Factory-automated machines and conveyors have two modes of ...
Tags: Packaging, Efficiency, Durability
Health warnings that are displayed on the front of cigarette packets in the UK are 'not up to the job', according to the British Heart Foundation. BHF has conducted a survey on smoking, which noted that only a 36% of teenagers in the UK ...
Tags: Cigarette Packs, Packaging
Hong Kong has had enough of mainland mothers emptying the region's shelves of imported baby formula. The government there will fine people up to US$64,000 and potentially throw them in jail for up to two years if they're caught carrying too ...
Tags: Foreign Dairy, baby formula
Bedding major Simmons said it will be a major sponsor of Howard Young's 2013 Atlanta Golf Classic, supporting pancreatic cancer research. Atlanta-based Simmons will co-sponsor the charity golf tournament, which expects to attract 120 ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
UC researcher's comments sound serious alarm Parasitic wasp enlisted in fight against ACP Irrigation water blocked by red tape Tests on Asian citrus psyllids (ACP) taken live from infested trees in a neighborhood in Dinuba, Calif. came ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Is it something on an elevated platform that prevents people from falling? Is it that low-profile metal strip that runs along the freeway? Or maybe nothing significant comes to mind? Unfortunately, the latter is often the case, especially ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components, Guard Rail
A recent article by U.S. IT website CNET outlined “Seven problems with current OLED televisions”. Although, OLED TV has better performance and good potential, in the short-term it still faces seven issues including high prices, ...
Tags: OLED TV, Seven Deadly Sins
Eight out of ten women in the UK agree that bright, colorful packaging tends to make products attractive to children aged under 18, according to new figures published by Cancer Research UK. The YouGov survey conducted for more than 2000 ...
Tags: Colorful Tobacco, Packaging
Canadian establishment White Veal Meat Packers is voluntarily recalling Veal Liver as it may have been contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The product associated with the recall is ...
Tags: White Veal, Contamination Concerns