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EXPERTS DEBATE ADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL PRINTING AT MAJOR BRAZILIAN TEXTILE CONFERENCE
A DUTCH specialist in digital printing has told a major textile conference in Brazil that its textile finishing sector should embrace this technology, despite its higher costs. Rene Wolferink, application specialist at the Netherlands’ SPGPrints was speaking at the International Abit Congress, staged by the Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry Association (ABIT – Associação Brasileira da Indústria Têxtil e de Confecção), staged in São Paulo on June 1 and 2.…
FOOD FOR AGEING KEY GROWTH AREA FOR NESTLÉ, SAYS LUIS CANTARELL
Specialist health and nutritional foods are set to become more important in the European market in future, according to Nestlé executive vice president and head of EMENA zone (Europe, Middle East and North Africa), Luis Cantarell, who singled out foods for the ageing population as a key priority.…
SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING IS IMPROVING, BUT MORE WORK NEEDED, CONCLUDES NEW REPORT
Pressure is increasing on companies to disclose their sustainability performance and a mass of voluntary and mandatory environmental reporting guidance has emerged – but the lack of a standard terminology has led to confusion and complexity. This is the conclusion of a new report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) called ‘Mapping the sustainability reporting landscape – Lost in the right direction’.…
PHARMA SECTOR THINKS HARD OVER UPCOMING EU REFORM OF ORPHAN MEDICINE CONTROLS
Important changes in the way that the European Union (EU) deals with orphan medicines could be signalled later this year when the European Commission publishes a revised version of its 2003 Communication (policy paper) on the topic. The Commission has said wants to “streamline the regulatory framework” underpinning the assistance given to manufacturers of orphan drugs and to adapt the policy to “technical progress”, and asked for comments from the pharma industry and other interested parties on how it should proceed.…
INDONESIA’S BODY CARE SECTOR GROWS ON THE BACK GROWING POPULATION AND SURGING INCOME
INDONESIAN consumers are becoming increasingly brand-savvy as their incomes surge, driving up the country’s body care product market. As of 2015, this retail segment generated USD169.41 million in sales, and is expected to reach USD245.09 million by 2020, according to Ghina Romani, a researcher with the London-based market intelligence company Canadean.…
INFANT FORMULA FAKES PROMPTS NEW CHINESE COUNTERFEIT FOOD ACTION
Infant formula was back in the news for wrong reasons again in China recently when cans of powder bearing fake labels for the Chinese Beingmate brand and Similac brands (owned by the US-based Abbott Laboratories) sparked nine arrests in April. Police have claimed 17,000 cans of infant formula were involved, being sold in the provinces of Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei.…
INDONESIA’S BODY CARE SECTOR GROWS ON THE BACK GROWING POPULATION AND SURGING INCOME
INDONESIAN consumers are becoming increasingly brand-savvy as their incomes surge, driving up the country’s body care product market. As of 2015, this retail segment generated USD169.41 million in sales, and is expected to reach USD245.09 million by 2020, according to Ghina Romani, a researcher with the London-based market intelligence company Canadean.…
KEEPING COMPETITIVE KEY TO GROWTH IN MEAT MARKET, SAYS COPA-COGECA HEAD
How to remain competitive in the face of falling meat consumption is the main challenge facing the meat and livestock industry today, Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of European Union (EU) farmers’ organisation Copa-Cogeca, has told GlobalMeatNews.
In an exclusive interview held as the EU body launched its #livestockcounts #enjoyagrifood campaign, promoting quality European meat consumption, Pesonen said: “We must ensure the added value of eating high quality meat as part of a balanced diet is communicated effectively to the consumer.”…
UNIVERSITIES MUST BETTER MEASURE REAL LEARNING PROGRESS, WUN FORUM TOLD
It is high time universities started to measure more what achieve in student learning, and less in enrolment, the Presidents’ Forum of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) has been told. The president of the Netherlands’ Maastricht University’s, Professor Jo Ritzen, referenced an American study in 2011 which found that many USA university and college students did not learn much at all.…
DUTCH CONSUMERS TOLD TO EAT MORE VEGETABLES
CONSUMERS should eat more vegetables, but less meat and fish, according to new dietary advice issued on March 31 by the Netherlands Nutrition Centre Foundation (NNC – Stichting Voedingscentrum Nederland), the government’s food advisory body.
The key change is recommending a daily dose of 250 grammes (g) instead of 200g of vegetables.…