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Multinationals and suppliers in the personal care product sector are unilaterally implementing measures to reduce their carbon footprint in the wake of the 2015 Paris climate treaty, taking steps to reduce energy use, their impact on forests and cutting water use and pollution.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) companies that put foods containing egg or chicken contaminated with the toxic insecticide fipronil on the market after 1 August 2017 will be considered liable as they should have known about the risk, the European Commission has told member states in the Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF) (Novel Food and Toxicological Safety of the Food Chain Section).…

A new industry roadmap to advance the development of power-to-gas in Europe is just one reason advocates of hydrogen production and storage are optimistic about the next decade. The laying of foundations for larger-scale developments of power-to-gas (P2G) in Europe have gathered momentum throughout 2017, with the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) and the Joint Programme on Energy Storage under the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) laying plans.…

Airbus Industrie has opened the second internal investigation in less than a year, following an exclusive September 18 report in The Guardian newspaper linked the aeronautics giant to two companies making secret payments via tax havens. 

Airbus Industrie is already under investigation in both France and the UK, over its use of middlemen to pass bungs to gain government contracts. …

AMERICAN and European regulators are forcing Swedish telecoms firm Telia and its Uzbek subsidiary Coscom together to pay out USD965,773,949 in penalties worldwide for corrupt payments made in Uzbekistan. The payout includes USD548.6 million for breaching the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), with the rest linked to proceedings by Dutch and Swedish prosecutors, the Openbaar Ministerie and Åklagarmyndigheten respectively.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and China have struck a geographical indications deal preventing the names of 100 traditional food and drink items from either jurisdiction being used by manufacturers based outside their historic production regions or following standardised production techniques. Without complaints from manufacturers, the agreement will be formalised later this year.…

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has told just-food it is blocking the movement of beef cattle from a Dutch veal and broiler poultry farm to allow tests on whether another unauthorised insecticide could pose health problems.

NVWA spokesperson Tjitte Mastenbroek explained that while Amitraz can be used as a veterinary medicinal product for cattle and pigs, its use as a pesticide is prohibited, because large doses can affect the nervous system.…

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA – Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit) is acting to protect European consumers from buying Dutch-produced eggs contaminated with fipronil, a toxic insecticide, a spokesperson has told just-food. “We have printed a list of 137 egg codes from the 180 companies [a fifth of all Dutch poultry farms] investigated, so consumers can check if they have the right or wrong eggs in their fridge.”…

CLAIMS by the Belgian authorities today (August 9) that the Netherlands knew about eggs contaminated with the toxic insecticide fipronil as early as last year are false, the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA – Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit) has affirmed.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) lawmakers are calling for a seismic shift towards low carbon mobility in the auto sector, including requiring manufacturers to meet a 25% minimum fleet quota for electric vehicles by 2025 and a sales ban on cars emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2035. …