Three major tobacco companies in the US have dropped their lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over pre-approval for modifications in labelling. The FDA has previously regulated that the tobacco companies required to ...
Indian food safety regulators have filed a lawsuit against Nestle India for selling Maggi noodles in the country with unsafe levels of lead. The complaint was filed at a local court in the state of Uttar Pradesh after the local Food ...
Tags: Food, Food Safety, Nestle
ConAgra Grocery Products will pay $11.2m in fine for shipping contaminated peanut butter that caused salmonella poisoning across the nation from 2006 through 2007. This comes after a lawsuit was filed against ConAgra Grocery Products ...
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey last night handed down the government’s 2015 – 2016 budget with some surprises and minor wins for some people in the food sector. The government has stepped away from the harsher politically ...
Tags: Federal Budget, food sector
Saudi Arabia has imposed a ban on imports of poultry meat and egg products from the Canadian province of Ontario over the detection of avian influenza at three farms. Recently, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, poultry meat
Global beverage giant PepsiCo has announced it will remove artificial aspartame from its Diet Pepsi product in the US later in 2015, after consumer backlash against aspartame saw PepsiCo’s sales drop. The Company has said it will ...
Tags: Diet Drinks, beverage
The Conservative Party has reiterated its plans to forge ahead with plain cigarette packaging legislation as well as promoting “clear food information”. In a section on health in its new manifesto, the party states: ...
A few big names in the tobacco industry have sued the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday over recent guidelines about mandating pre-approval of labelling changes in tobacco products. Companies including RJ Reynolds, Lorillard ...
US-based paper packaging company International Paper is said to be exploring a takeover bid of over €8.1bn for Irish packaging giant Smurfit Kappa. Sky News quoted a source as saying that International Paper was considering an ...
After controversy has swirled for days around a group of weight-loss supplements containing a potentially dangerous chemical, many big retailers have pulled the product from their shelves. The supplements in question include the ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule to amend and update its regulation on registration of food facilities, in a bid to enhance the food facility registration system. Besides improvement, this new development ...
India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has instructed manufacturers to print the track and trace system export of pharmaceuticals and drug consignments on secondary level packaging including mono cartons. As per a ...
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Drugs can be administered directly into the body through injections, infusion, or through other drug delivery devices. Drug delivery devices are the devices or formulations used to inject therapeutic substances in the body through a ...
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It was reported on 25 March 2015 that new Country of Origin Labelling laws will be delayed until at least August 2015 despite the Prime Minister’s announcement on 16 February 2015 that country of origin labelling proposals for reform ...
Tags: FSANZ, dietary supplements, Food
Catalent Pharma Solutions, a US-based provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biologics and consumer health products, has acquired Australian pharmaceutical packaging business, Pharmapak Technologies, ...
Tags: delivery technologies, Pacific, Packaging