FOOD INDUSTRY PARTICIPATES IN GLOBAL ANTI-COUNTERFEIT MOVE
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE FOOD industry has helped forge a plan to push governments into fighting product counterfeiting more effectively. The Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) group (launched by the International Chamber of Commerce) will coordinate actions this year, which - said the chamber - will "ensure policymakers have sufficient information to make decisions, implement policies and apportion resources; and compel national governments to implement legislation protecting intellectual property (IP)...." Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Nestlé ...
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