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EU DETAILS THREAT POSED BY GLOBAL GOODS COUNTERFEITERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH global trade ever increasing, and the power of brands to generate massive profits made starkly clear with every company report, the counterfeiting of goods is one of international organised crime’s major boom areas. The European Commission has been researching the threat posed from around the world.…
MEPS AND EU MINISTERS APPROACH FINAL DEAL ON REACH
BY ALAN OSBORN
AFTER nearly five years of intense negotiation and an unprecedented degree of lobbying, the European Union’s (EU) REACH system (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) is close to final agreement by the EU institutions. The legislation, which will vitally affect the cost and availability of raw materials to the solvents and adhesive industries and – industry watchers fear – may potentially drive many smaller companies out of business, is strongly supported by health and environment organisations but fiercely opposed by industry.…
GLOBAL WARMING COULD BE A BOON TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - FAO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed that global warming – whilst posing serious risks for developing countries through flooding and desertification – could actually spur economic growth through sustainable biomass production. Speaking at the recent UN climate change conference in Nairobi, the FAO’s Kenya representative Castro Paulino Camarada said with the right technologies, converting biomass such as wood and crop residues, grass, straw and brushwood into fuel could "provide developing countries an abundant supply of clean, low-cost energy while helping spur economic development in rural communities".…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION RESISTS FINLAND VODKA DEFINITION COMPROMISE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL experts are undermining the provisional compromise agreement over the European Union (EU) definition of vodka stitched together by the current EU Finnish presidency. The Finns have claimed "a broad majority" for a deal where vodkas made from non-traditional products, such as grapes, are sold as ‘vodka made/distilled from (add ingredient used)’.…
OECD CALLS ON CHINA TO BOOST ITS ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD ON COAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has called on China to improve its environmental record regarding the mining and consumption of coal, to help reduce pollution overall. In its Environmental Performance Review of China, an OECD working party on environmental performance has recommended China introduces "cleaner coal technology, coal washing and flue gas desulphurisation".…
AQUACULTURE GROUP SHRIMP STUDY GETS AWARD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has given its 2006 ‘Green Award’ to a collaborative aquaculture industry-international organisation study that produced global and detailed advice on reducing pollution problems caused by shrimp farming. The Network for Aquaculture Centres for the Asia Pacific teamed with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), WWF, the UN Environment Programme and the bank itself to form the Consortium on Shrimp Farming and the Environment.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION WARNS ON TEXTILE, CLOTHING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CRIMES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTERFEITING organisation that has made China and Hong Kong the world’s clothing fake hotspots have been described in a global European Commission survey of countries where product fakes are manufactured. The Commission gathered the information from companies, diplomatic missions and trade federations.…
EC IDENTIFIES CLOTHING, TEXTILE COUNTERFEITING HOTSPOTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA has been branded a serious hotspot for counterfeit books, in a global European Commission survey of countries where product fakes are manufactured. The Commission’s directorate general (DG) for trade gathered information from companies, diplomatic missions and trade federations.…
CHINA IN FAKE CONFECTIONARY FLOOD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MORE than 30% of all confectionary sold in China are counterfeits of global brands, a new European Commission intellectual property survey says. Businesses, industrial federations and diplomatic missions stressed the difficulty of preventing such offences through legal action.…
NESTLÉ TECHNOLOGISTS SEEK TO BALANCE FOOD ENJOYMENT AND NUTRITION - INTERVIEW
BY MARK ROWE
CONFECTIONARY production is a never-ending battle to balance the ‘feel-good’ factor of products such as a chocolate and cakes with increasing consumer demands for healthy living and enhanced nutrition, according to a leading food scientist.
Dr Johan Ubbink, a senior research scientist and department group leader at the Nestlé Research Centre for Food and Life Sciences in Lausanne, Switzerland, acknowledged that, while chocolate cake would never be the healthiest thing you could eat, research was embracing new technologies that could mitigate the negative effects of confectionary.…