Syngenta today announced that it has received the safety certificate for its Agrisure Viptera trait (MIR162) from China’s regulatory authorities, formally granting import approval. The approval covers corn grain and processing ...
The ecigarette company ECigaretteDirect.co.uk, which is based in Swansea, has been chosen to be a candidate for Living Wage Champion Awards 2014. ECigaretteDirect sells ecigarettes and vape product online and also through stores located all ...
The Company has 15 stores in Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand, Qatar, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Administrators have been appointed to the Company’s Australian operations, which include four Jones the Grocer stores in ...
Tags: grocery retailing, Agriculture
On 16 December 2014, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) released its approved version of the latest revision of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Food Standards Code). The new Food Standards Code requires only the ...
Tags: Food Standards Code, Agriculture
Indonesia’s ability to export sustainable forestry products has just been given an adrenalin boost. All products recognised by the Indonesian Forestry Certification Cooperation (IFCC) will receive automatic accreditation from the ...
Tags: Forestry Products, Packaging
The debate around raw milk continues after dairy company Mountain View Farm recalled its Organic Bath Milk product. The recall came after the product was implicated in the death of a three-year-old child, who had consumed it. ACCC to ...
Tags: milk recall, Food Science, Agriculture
During 2014, CHEP Australia staff gave more than 900 hours volunteering for charities and not-for- profit organisations in their local communities. CHEP Australia is part of the Brambles Group, which has an employee volunteering policy ...
Cardia Bioplastics has expanded its patent portfolio with 19 granted patents apart from 42 more pending registrations for its bioplastics technology. The company has also secured seven new Cardia Compostable, Biohybrid and PPC-starch ...
The sixth free trade agreement negotiations in Japan and South Korea will be held in Tokyo, Japan on 24 to 28. Before this, China's assistant minister of commerce Wang Shouwen said, China and South Korea free trade area (FTA) would make ...
Tags: FTA, free trade agreement
Fonterra, New Zealand's dairy co-operative, has reduced the price it expects to pay farmers for milk, in response to the declining dairy prices in the international market. The price has been reduced to also deal with the glut in ...
Tags: Dairy, milk, Agriculture
2015 is set to see property across Asia Pacific experience a continued increase in investment volumes, improved tenant demand and structural change across various sectors. According to Colliers International’s 2015 Asia Pacific ...
India-based Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and China-based Shandong Ruyi Science and Technology Group Co Ltd (Ruyi) (through its wholly owned subsidiary), have signed definitive agreements for setting up a joint venture (JV) in textiles, ...
Tags: joint venture, Textile
South Korea's President park geun-hye and New Zealand prime minister John key announced at a press conference in Brisbane, Australia on Nov.15, the free trade agreement negotiations between the two countries has come to an end. The two ...
Tags: FTA, agricultural markets
A growing appetite for red meat in China has made the country the largest market for sheep meat exports, and the second-largest for beef exports from New Zealand. Tim Ritchie, chief executive of the Meat Industry Association of New ...
Tags: Quality Meat, Red Meat
New Zealand’s Blue Sky Meats has acquired Gore-based Clover Export in a bid to offer better services to its customers. With this acquisition, Blue Sky Meats can offer processing capacity in beef and venison. It will also help the ...
Tags: Blue Sky Meats, Agriculture