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Wales Approves Minimum Price for Alcohol Bill
Jun 21, 2018The National Assembly for Wales has approved a new law which will introduce a minimum price for alcohol in Wales. The legislation intends to reduce the amount of alcohol being consumed in the form of binge drinking, while reducing the ...
Tags: Alcohol
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UK to Ban Petrol, Diesel Vehicles by 2040
Jul 28, 2017The UK Government has unveiled plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of its program to deliver clean air. As per the plan, the ban will only include stand-alone petrol or diesel vehicles and not hybrid or ...
Tags: Diesel Vehicles, Petrol Vehicles
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Tonicorp Inaugurates New Dairy Production Facility in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Jul 4, 2017Ecuadorian dairy firm Tonicorp has opened a new dairy production plant in Guayaquil. The inauguration ceremony was chaired by the President of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, together with directors of Arca Continental and The Coca-Cola ...
Tags: dairy, dairy Facility
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Different Food Industry Responses to Free Range Egg Farms Misleading Claim Fine
Apr 19, 2016Responses to last week’s Australian Federal Court’s decision to impose a $300, 000 penalty on Free Range Egg Farms (FREF) has attracted a strong reaction in food industry and food compliance circles. In a decision handed down ...
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CHOICE Continues Free-Range Egg Fight with New App
Apr 15, 2016Australian consumer advocacy group CHOICE is launching a free app to help shoppers identify different types of free range eggs. The group is launching the app after Consumer Affairs Ministers’ decided to allow producers to call eggs ...
Tags: CHOICE, APP, Free range eggs
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Packaging Council of Australia Future Uncertain
Apr 11, 2016The future of the Packaging Council of Australia (PCA) is currently up in the air. David Carter, Chief Executive Officer of the PCA told PKN that memberships to the council have dropped to levels which have forced him to announce an ...
Tags: Packaging Council of Australia, PCA, PKN, APC
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Country of Origin Labelling Gets Final Green Light
Apr 5, 2016The new Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL) for Australia's food packaging was given the final go-ahead by commonwealth, state and territory consumer affairs ministers this week. Each label will indicate the proportion of Australian ...
Tags: Country of Origin, CoOL, Green Light, Food packaging
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MPs Reject Changes To Sunday Trading Laws
Mar 16, 2016The Government's plans to change Sunday trading laws in England and Wales, which would allow larger shops to trade for more than six hours, have been scrapped after being rejected by MPs. The plans were rejected by 317 votes to 286, ...
Tags: Sunday trading laws, Large shops, MPs
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Upper Hunter Has Its Hands Tied Behind Its Back
Mar 11, 2016Greg Cameron Call for an “Upper Hunter Economic Development Corporation” (Newcastle Herald Editorial, March 9) were also made 20 years ago when the region wanted to participate in the benefits of a container terminal after ...
Tags: Upper Hunter, Newcastle
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Food Standard Scotland Drafts Measures to Tackle Obesity
Feb 10, 2016Food Standard Scotland (FSS) is considering a package of measures to tackle advertising, promotion and potion size of certain foods and drinks, which would be considered for taxation and regulation in order to improve Scottish diet. ...
Tags: Food Standard Scotland, package
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Hollande, Merkel, Putin, Poroshenko Stress Importance of Minsk Protocol Full Implementation
Dec 31, 2015Leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine stressed Wednesday the importance of the "full implementation" of the Minsk Protocal in 2016. French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir ...
Tags: Minsk Protocol
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China Responds to Japan-South Korea Sex Slavery Deal
Dec 29, 2015The Chinese government has welcomed the agreement reached by Japan and South Korea on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II, calling on Japan to deal with historical issues in a responsible way. Chinese ...
Tags: Sex Slavery Deal
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Syria Ready to Take Part in Peace Talks in Geneva
Dec 25, 2015Syria has said it's ready to take part in peace talks in Geneva and hopes that the dialogue will help the country form a national unity government. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem made the statement on Thursday during a visit to ...
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FTA Between China and Rok to Come Into Force on DEC. 20
Dec 22, 2015The free trade agreement (FTA) between China and South Korea will officially come into force from Sunday, providing an opportunity for the two countries to push forward their already-close cooperation partnership further. Seoul's trade ...
Tags: FTA, China and ROK
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China, S.Korea to Deepen Economic Ties with FTA Implementation
Dec 22, 2015The free trade agreement (FTA) between China and South Korea will officially come into force from Sunday, providing an opportunity for the two countries to push forward their already-close cooperation partnership further. Seoul's trade ...
