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MEAT HAZARD ALERTS ROSE FAST WORLDWIDE IN 2018 SAYS REPORT MONITOR
FOOD hazard reports relating to meat and meat products have been rising fast worldwide, according to data released by HorizonScan, a global food safety database which gathers food safety and inspection alerts from more than 115 sources in more than 70 countries.…
EU RESEARCH INTO COLLOIDS COULD OPEN DOOR TO NEW DYES DEVELOPMENT
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding an international research project that is developing new fast ways of making colloids – mixtures of one substance comprising insoluble microscopic particles suspended in another substance. These materials can include dyes, but the process of making colloids can be very slow, limiting industrial applications.…
USA INCREASES TO 25% ADDITIONAL DUTIES ON CHINESE MEAT EXPORTS
THE US government has raised its existing 10% additional duties on imports of meat and livestock sector products from China to 25% from today (May 10), citing a lack of progress on ongoing trade talks between the world’s two largest national economies.…
MEAT HAZARD ALERTS ROSE FAST WORLDWIDE IN 2018 SAYS REPORT MONITOR
FOOD hazard reports relating to meat and meat products have been rising fast worldwide, according to data released by HorizonScan, a global food safety database which gathers food safety and inspection alerts from more than 115 sources in more than 70 countries.…
AMERICAN MEAT INDUSTRY FEDERATIONS WORRY ABOUT CHINA RESPONSE TO NEW 25% USA TARIFFS
Members of the USA meat industry, already buckling under the impact of previous Chinese retaliatory tariffs against their goods, are expressing cautious concern following the US imposition of 25% tariffs against an additional USD200 billion of Chinese exports.
Kent Bacus, senior director of international trade at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), said that while his body supports the ongoing trade talks interrupted by this tariff hike, notably the Trump administration’s efforts “to open the Chinese market for US beef and other agricultural goods,” a Chinese duty increase would cause problems.…
GENERICS FIRMS FACING 44-STATE PRICE FIXING LAWSUIT IN US
A 44-STRONG coalition of states in the United States (US) has filed a lawsuit accusing 20 major pharmaceutical manufacturers and 15 individuals of running possibly the largest cartel in US history for over 100 generic medicines. A May 12 [2019] statement from the office of Connecticut Attorney, General William Tong, which is leading the coalition, alleges that Teva, Sandoz, Mylan, Pfizer and 16 other generic drug makers have “engaged in a broad, coordinated and systematic campaign to conspire with each other to fix prices, allocate markets and rig bids for more than 100 different generic drugs.”…
FRAUD DETECTION TECH BECOMING MORE SOPHISTICATED – BUT ALLYING IT WITH HUMAN EXPERTISE WORKS BEST
FRAUD detection is undergoing “significant disruption” with credibility assessment approaching “a significant inflection point” with traditional polygraph solutions being supplanted machine learning and biometric techniques, said leading US fraud examiner Pamela Meyer.
She said the industry is in “a deception arms race”, with fraudsters – as usual – trying to outwit the latest developments.…
UK GOVERNMENT AGREES TO CONSIDER CENTRALISED BRIBERY REPORTING
THE BRITISH government has agreed to consider setting up a centralised bribery reporting mechanism in response to a key recommendation from the UK’s upper parliamentary house, the House of Lords in its report on the effectiveness of the 2010 Bribery Act.…
MULTIMILLION EURO CRYTO-CURRENCY LAUNDERING SERVICE SMASHED
In the first law enforcement action of its kind, the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), has shut down a cryptocurrency mixer service Bestmixer.io, alleging it has broken money laundering laws. The service blended potentially identifiable or ‘tainted’ cryptocurrency funds with others, obscuring the trail back to the fund’s original source.…
EU/WTO REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU TRANSFAT REGULATION RELEASED
THE EUROPEAN Commission has passed a new European Union (EU) regulation that will limit the amount of trans-fats that can be present within food products sold across the EU from April 2021.
This new rule, authorised under powers already granted to the EU executive, will impose a maximum limit of trans-fats of 2 grams per 100 grams of fat, excluding naturally-occurring animal origin trans-fats.…