The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the first national regulations to provide for the safe disposal of coal combustion residuals (coal ash) from coal-fired power plants. The final rule establishes safeguards to ...
Tags: coal ash, ground water, Construction
The Welsh Government has published guidance on waste management, ahead of new EU legal requirements on the separate collection of waste paper, metal, plastic and glass for recycling, due to come into force at the start of next year. All ...
Tags: Waste Management, waste paper
There’s more to celebrate this month than just the holidays – this month also marks the 40th anniversary of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. We all rely – and have come to expect – that plenty of clean water ...
Tags: Clean Water, Agriculture
Holle Baby Food is recalling all batches of certain Holle branded and Lebenswert branded baby foods from across the UK as they may contain atropine and scopolamine, according to the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA). The products associated ...
Linpac calls the UK home. But it has had a manufacturing site in Bunbury, Perth since 2013 and in 2015 it will have a new one in Melbourne. With a site on both the east and west sides of Australia, Linpac intends to supply the latest design ...
Tags: manufacturing site, technology, Packaging
Key priorities for further development of the Indian textile industry were identified at a three-day Uster ‘Quality University’ event held in Goa recently. Delegates at the summit explored the challenges and opportunities ...
Tags: textile industry, Textile
Bosch Packaging Technology and Klenzaids Contamination Controls are planning a joint venture in India that they intend to use to extend their global reach, particularly in liquid pharmaceuticals and packaging machines for clean-room ...
The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has found that around a quarter of purified drinking water in the country is contaminated with excessive levels of bacteria. The Shanghai Daily newspaper reported that bacteria was found ...
Tags: Purified Drinking Water, CFDA
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, which showed that 70 per cent of chicken sold in UK supermarkets were ...
Tags: Chicken, Campylobacter Bacteria
Label and packaging material producer Avery Dennison has invested €7m to expand its plant in Gotha, Central Germany by enhancing its coating and laminated capabilities for self-adhesive label and packaging films.The company has made ...
Tags: Label, packaging material, Agriculture
Bosch Packaging Technology and Klenzaids Contamination Controls are planning a joint venture in India that they intend to use to extend their global reach, particularly in liquid pharmaceuticals and packaging machines for clean-room ...
Tags: Packaging Technology, Contamination Controls, Packaging
Posted in Medical Device Assembly by Chris Newmarker on December 2, 2014 Sometimes a fix for a problem really doesn’t entirely solve the problem. And that seems to be exactly what happened to Philips Healthcare’s ...
Tags: Medical Ventures, Health
The Leicester-based company has been developing a solution to combat the very bacteria that has been at the heart of the current chicken packaging scare. The FSA said of the 70% of chicken, 18% of it was contaminated at the very highest ...
Tags: bacteria, contaminated chicken, Packaging
More than 70% of chicken being sold in UK supermarkets are contaminated with campylobacter, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) statistics. The FSA has announced cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long ...
Tags: chicken, campylobacter, Agriculture
Henry’s Farm of Virginia has recalled all packages of soybean sprouts since they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) said. The company has recalled 1 lb ...
Tags: soybean sprouts, Listeria, Agriculture