Madagascar's new leader vowed Wednesday to toughen his government's crackdown on the illegal trafficking of precious woods from the Indian Ocean island. Hery Rajaonarimampianina said he would personally "wage this battle against the ...
Tags: Madagascar, Illegal Logging, rosewood
At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
Tags: Chicken, Apples, Oranges, gut bacteria, Salmonella, Food Safety
Välinge has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Exterpark, the inventor of the Invisible Profile for outdoor decking. The technology is widely appreciated within the decking industry and potential intellectual property ...
Tags: outdoor decking, decking panel, floor
The Government of Ghana is committed to protect the country’s textile industry and it would take decisions as and when necessary for the purpose, Haruna Iddrissu, Minister of Trade and Industry has said. Speaking at a ...
Tags: Local Textiles, Textile
MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Twenty-five percent of Russian men die before age 55, the average life expectancy for Russian men is age 64, and many blame vodka, researchers say. The study, published in the Lancet, found Russian male smokers ...
Tags: Vodka, Short Life
By Russ Daly, DVM, DACVPM Recently, livestock producers and veterinarians have been hearing about changes coming in the way antibiotics are used in food animals. In mid-December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final ...
In Q4 Unipetrol Group posted operational profit EBITDA LIFO of CZK 252m. Due to lower petrochemical and refinery production sales, as well as refining margins, revenues of the Company decreased by 5% y/y and in Q4 amounted at CZK 25.070 bn. ...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Commerce has made a final determination that Malaysian innersprings producer Reztec Inds. Sdn Bhd has been circumventing an antidumping order that places duties on Chinese-made uncovered ...
Tags: innersprings units, DOC, Leggett&Platt, merchandise
UK Flammability Regulations for Upholstered Furniture Published on : Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Following the recent BBC investigation into upholstery on sale in the UK containing foams and fabrics that do not comply with British ...
Tags: BBC, FIRA, Tristine Hargreaves, UK
Robotics address the need for speed for product placement into packaging. Bosch Packaging TechnologyEnergy and raw materials are becoming more expensive, and consumers want to do more for the environment. This is forcing manufacturers of ...
Tags: Robotics, environment, innovations
With the release of new and revamping of several established video streaming services being undertaken in the coming months, 2014 appears like it could be ‘The Year of Streaming’. However, Australia might not be as supportive a ...
Tags: Curbing Piracy, Netflix, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad
For the first time in its production history, Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) exceeded the annual level of 4 million tons of crude steel and finished 2013 with a total volume of 4.155 million tons--7 percent more than the 2012 total. The ...
Tags: Steel Production, Mineral
BBC TV's Fake Britain programme - highlighting the illegal and unsafe mattresses on sale through major high street retailers - has catapulted the National Bed Federation's (NBF) new Code of Practice and Mark of Approval into the limelight. ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
A single question may help doctors determine whether a patient has a drug or alcohol problem and the level of abuse, a new study suggests. Keep it simple is the message from the study of nearly 300 people recruited from the Boston Medical ...
In yesterday's BBC consumer affairs programme, Fake Britain, several leading furniture and bed retailers were involved in an investigation into product compliance with the UK's stringent fire safety regulations for furniture. Products ...
Tags: Fake Britain, fire safety regulations for furniture, furniture