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EUROPEAN COSMETICS INDUSTRY UP IN ARMS OVER MICROPLASTICS LAW
THE EUROPEAN cosmetics sector will continue to maintain that the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)’s microplastics restriction proposal is disproportionate, industry experts told European personal care association Cosmetics Europe’s annual conference 2019.
At the June 12-13 meeting in Brussels, they claimed ECHA’s January 2019 proposal should be proportionate, coherent, effective and enforceable – but, at present, looking at the existing proposal, this is not the case.…
LATIN AMERICA’S PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT MARKETS REMAIN IN THE DOLDRUMS AS ECONOMIES PERFORM POORLY
IT has been another subdued year for the beauty and personal care product market in Latin America, as the region’s economy underperforms yet again after six years of deceleration (and in some countries outright recession), keeping a lid on sales growth. …
AI AND MACHINE LEARNING CAN COMBINE WITH HUMAN EXPERTS TO DETECT COMMERCIAL CRIME
SURVEILLANCE and detection are becoming increasingly high-tech, especially when fighting financial crime. But experts still think combining human expertise with new artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analysis is the smartest way to unmask commercial crime. Sarah Gibbons and Sara Lewis report.…
IRISH FIRMS COULD MAKE CLAIM MORE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CREDITS
Irish small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could make more use of the country’s R&D tax credits to stimulate innovation according to a recent KPMG study which found only 55% of SMEs surveyed had claimed R&D tax credits. Also, only half of respondents were aware of a ‘knowledge development box’ tax relief offered by Ireland’s Revenue Commissioners to encourage more spending on research and development activities.…
ASIAN REGULATORY ROUND UP – HONG KONG AND CHINA STRIKE DEAL OVER ACCESS TO AUDIT WORKING PAPERS
A MEMORANDUM of understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) with China’s ministry of finance and the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) boosting SFC access to audit working papers from audits of HK-listed mainland companies.…
COMMISSION SETS STRICTER CMR LIMITS FOR TEXTILES
The rules amend existing restrictions in the REACH chemicals regulation 1907/2006. They set maximum concentration limits for chemicals “particularly harmful in case of frequent contact with human skin”, the Commission said in an October 10 press note.
Permitted levels range from 1mg/kg for cadmium, chromium, arsenic, and lead to 3,000mg/kg for N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF).…
WORLD’S SMALLEST COMMERCIAL RUNWAY REBUILT – IN SABA, DUTCH CARIBBEAN
The runway spans just 400 metres overlooking steep cliffs serving an island which is a dormant volcano with few stretches of flat land. The operator, Saba’s island government, has said that with Saba (population around 2,000) having no asphalt plant, longer-lasting concrete was a better financial choice.…
VIETNAM’S TECHNICAL TEXTILE AMBITIONS AIDED BY TRADE WAR BUT DAUNTING CHALLENGES REMAIN
VIETNAMESE technical textile producers look set to capitalise on the ongoing trade war between the US and China with an increase in approaches from American automotive supply chain clients already being witnessed.
In May, the Trump regime increased tariffs on USD200 billion of imported Chinese goods, including many technical textiles and end-products made of technical textiles.…
SOCIAL MEDIA MIGHT SPREAD DISINFORMATION, BUT BEFORE THE INTERNET, GOVERNMENT NARRATIVES WERE KING – WORLDVIEW MEETING HEARS
WHILE concern grows about the use of social media to spread falsehoods, it does at least allow information to circulate that governments might prefer to suppress, speakers at the Worldviews on Media and Higher Education Conference, held at Canada’s University of Toronto have stressed.…
INDONESIA’S CLOTHING SECTOR POSTS STRONG RESULTS BUT MORE MEASURES NEEDED TO BOOST TEXTILES
INDONESIAN clothing and textile industry experts and the government say there is continued need to boost investment in creating efficient upstream supplies to enable the country to profit sustainably from growing demand for clothing export sales.
Textile and garment production grew 19% in the first quarter of this year (year-on-year) – but that was largely thanks to a strong performance from the clothing sector.…