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INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUNDUP – GLOBAL SWEETENERS GROUP CONCERN OVER SHARING BIOMONITORING DATA WITH EU REGULATOR



THE INTERNATIONAL Sweeteners Association (ISA) has called for clear rules on how the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) may assess biomonitoring data in the agency’s planned review of authorisations for sweeteners that are allowed in the European Union (EU). The industry body said in a public consultation on this review that it “is critical to have clear and expert protocols issued by EFSA and/or OECD to appropriately respond to… interest in reviewing ‘biomonitoring’ data, if this is to be considered in the current re-evaluation of sweeteners.”…

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NEW TECH MAY HELP AML PROBES, BUT THEY ALSO INCREASE VULNERABILITIES FOR COMPLIANCE SYSTEMS



 

While new financial technologies and associated developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence offer AML/CFT solutions, anti-money laundering specialists are concerned about new risks being posed by new business and industrial innovations.

Banks are starting to adopt AI-based machine learning, but terrorists and criminals can use technology too: “It is really an AI arms race in financial crime”, said Kamer Yüksel, chief data scientist for Munich-based artificial intelligence start-up hawk:AI’s and author of more than 35 publications on AI.…

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INDONESIAN DAIRY SECTOR GROWING, BUT PRODUCTION CAN’T KEEP UP WITH DEMAND



South-east Asia is not known for a tradition of eating dairy products, but actually consumers in the region’s most populous country Indonesia (population 270 million people) have been eating cheese for more than a century (partly thanks Indonesia’s historic links with the Netherlands) and the country has a thriving domestic dairy industry.…

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JAPAN’S PAINT AND COATING SECTOR FACES TOUGH TIMES AS COVID-19 HITS WHEN INDUSTRY’S OLYMPIC DIVIDEND ENDS



 

As with every business sector in every country around the world, Japan’s paint and coatings industry has been thrown into uncertainty over the full impact and longer-term implications of the coronavirus Covid-19 that has swept the globe since first emerging in China in December 2019. …

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COMPANIES NEED TO ENSURE THEIR CYBER-SECURITY SYSTEMS ARE QUANTUM RESISITANT, WARN EXPERTS



CYBER-SECURITY specialists are already considering how to make IT systems resist a hack based on a quantum computer, an emerging technology that is starting to demonstrate its potential to calculate problems that elude current digital computers, let alone humans. Keith Nuthall reports

 

QUANTUM computing is here.…

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SOUTH KOREAN BEAUTY SECTOR IS STRONG, BUT WILL NEED TO INNOVATE TO COPE SUCCESSFULLY WITH COVID-19 CRISIS



With the Korea Cosmetic Industry Institute (KCII) estimating there were USD11.7 billion’s worth of South Korean-made personal care products (‘K-beauty’) sales in 2019, including nearly USD6.49 billion in exports, and more than 16,000 individuals and businesses officially licensed to provide cosmetic products and services, South Korea’s cosmetic industry has the innate strength it will need to cope with the Covid-19 crisis.…

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ASIAN PAINT AND COATING REGULATORY ROUNDUP - INDONESIAN INITIATIVE FOCUSES ON REMOVING LEAD FROM PAINTS



Indonesia’s industry ministry launched an initiative in February (2020) aimed at eliminating lead used in paint made and sold in the country. It involves the Indonesian paint industry, is part of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) project and is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), an international investment body.…

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POLISH FINISHING SECTOR LOOKS TO DIGITAL PRINTING TECHNOLOGY TO SHARPEN ITS COMPETITITVENESS AS EUROPEAN OUTSOURCING CENTRE



Digital printing is still a relatively new concept to Poland’s traditional fabric finishing sector – but national pride in the country’s well-established textile sector is sparking a desire to modernise so it can maintain its competitive edge. Much of the resulting investment has been focused on local and independent textile printers located throughout the country – but a significant number of these are based in Łódz, central Poland, a key textile manufacturing hub, with the port-town of Gdynia also being home to upgraded finishing plants.…

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PRODUCERS AND RETAILERS: DEMAND FOR CANNED FOOD WILL STAY EVEN AFTER COVID-19



The can making and filling sectors have become beneficiaries – at least in the short term – of consumers turning their kitchen cupboards into pandemic pantries, stockpiling canned food and other long-lasting products because they fear of food shortages because of Covid-19.…

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ASIA REGULATORY ROUND UP – MALAYSIA LAUNCHES USD57 BILLION COVID-19 SPENDING PROGRAMME AS ASIAN JURISDICTIONS REEL UNDER VIRUS OUTBREAK



 

MALAYSIA’S new United Malays National Organisation (UMNO)-dominated government has announced a Malaysian Ringgit MYR250 billion (USD57 billion) spending package to help the economy withstand the Covid-19 epidemic. This includes paying a monthly wage subsidy of MYR600 (USD137) for three months for employers with a 50% drop in business since January 1 for workers with monthly salaries below MYR4,000 (USD915).…

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