The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has delayed the release of a re-evaluation of the sweetener aspartame, in order to facilitate additional review of new data. While the release was scheduled for September 2012, the EFSA had asked ...
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UK's Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is heading a food trade delegation to China this week, as a part of an effort to increase dairy exports to China and boost the economy by £1bn. Paterson will meet dairy companies, trade ...
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Genetically modified (GM) potatoes are set to be grown for the first time in Ireland, after Environmental Protection Agency Ireland (EPA) has given its approval to carry out trials. The plants will be modified to be resistant to Late ...
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Legal & General, a UK based provider of risk, savings and investment management products has appointed its chief financial officer Nigel Wilson to succeed Tim Breedon as the new chief executive of the company from 30 June 2012. According ...
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Novartis' Exjade has received positive opinion from Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Exjade is used to treat chronic iron overload requiring chelation therapy when ...
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US-based Kraft Foods has entered into an agreement to gain full control of Morocco's leading cookie firm Bimo from National Investment (SNI), an investment vehicle owned by Morocco's royal family, for MAD1.31bn ($151m). Under the ...
Investment AB Kinnevik has received regulatory approval for its previously announced agreement to sell its Korsnas packaging operations to Billerud for SEK2.7bn ($406m), to form a merged group called BillerudKorsnas. According to the ...
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OPKO Health, a biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company, has acquired Barcelona-based Farmadiet Group. The acquisition allows OPKO to establish presence in the European Union and allows near term product commercialization synergies ...
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Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Ahsan Bashir has urged for provision of regionally competitive interest rate in the wake of improvement in the economic indicators. He has appreciated the government for bringing ...
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Dow Microbial Control, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company, announced that significant increases in its regulatory investments in recent years have enabled its customers to move toward advanced sustainable microbial control ...
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Breast Cancer UK, a charity has launched a petition calling the government for a ban of the use of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) in food and drinks packaging. According to the charity, the hormone-disrupting chemical BPA has been linked ...
At the next Heimtextil trade fair, which will take place from January 9 to 12, 2013 in Frankfurt, ten to twelve textile producers will exhibit their products at the SIPPO collective both in Hall 10.3 – C51 & C61. The Swiss Import ...
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Auction site eBay's tax arrangements since its Luxembourg office became base for European sales. This move is one politicians and tax authorities say should be examined. The office only has nine employees, but eBay Europe Sarl is ...
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The implementation of European Union’s Autonomous Trade Preference (ATP) Scheme from November this year is expected to boost Pakistan’s textile exports to the EU countries. Pakistan’ textile exports to the EU would ...
The buyers of today on the hunt for price competitive production sites must take more than just price and the ability to supply into account:sustainability is needed in all aspects of production including the local working conditions,whilst ...
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