The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has released new rules for food processors to control allergens. The new guidelines by FSIS aim to help poultry, meat and processed egg product ...
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European Union regulators have concluded that the widely used herbicide glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer, a ruling that runs counter to a controversial assessment issued recently by an arm of the World Health Organization. The ...
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Ferroelectric materials have applications in next-generation electronics devices from optoelectronic modulators and random access memory to piezoelectric transducers and tunnel junctions. Now researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...
Australia’s transport ministers have decided to overtax the truck and bus industries by $515 million over the next two years, the CEO of the Australian Trucking Association Christopher Melham said today. The ministers made the ...
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Metal detection and X-ray inspection are an excellent first line of defence to check products for foreign contaminants before they leave your processing plant. In food and beverage applications, both systems must be extremely sensitive, ...
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The food and drug administration (FDA) of Maharashtra, a state in India, has found cases of misbranding and mislabeling after laboratory tests on a few samples of packaged foods revealed non-disclosure of certain contents. The state ...
Tags: FDA, labels, Food Safety
Dry bulk shipowners are heading toward 2016 with the prospect of one fewer cargo option on the key loading region of the US Gulf Coast, as new environmental legislation introduced by Beijing this summer could mean China will no longer be ...
An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
"This year's Beijing Fringe Festival is more diverse and more international," said Meng Jinghui, mastermind behind the event, now in its eighth year. The festival, which runs until Sept 26 in six theatres and art spaces in Beijing, will ...
Draft EU rules on allocating forward electricity capacity have received a key approval from an EU committee of national government officials, formal EU power grid operators' body Entso-e said late Monday. "Clear rules on long-term trading ...
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Although we’d all love to know the secrets to the best booth staff, there really is no one answer. Selecting the right people for the job is what you do for your business year round and the same rules should apply when attending a ...
As China's Internet giants rewrite the rules of the game for the traditional film industry, a new big player backed by the world's largest game company recently tapped into the booming market. Tencent Pictures, a subsidiary of Tencent ...
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Street performers say licenses provide a place to show off their talentsand some much-needed social recognition, reports Li Xueqing in Shanghai. One Friday afternoon in September, Xing Zhenhua opened his guitar case and began singing in ...
The famous Chinese cardiologist Zhang Shu, 56, was the main official at this year's World Congress of Arrhythmias, which was held in Beijing from Sept 17-19. As the secretary-general of the World Society of Arrhythmias that is held once ...
Tags: Chinese Doctor, Arrhythmias, ICD
The last-minute change to China's submission for the 2016 Academy Awards best foreign language film award was because "Wolf Totem" did not meet the requirements. According to a report by China Film News, Oscars organizers notified ...
Tags: "Wolf Totem", Oscars, film