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BY DAVID HAWORTH

Food manufacturers and retailers have been asked at the CIAA (Confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU) congress in Brussels today (Friday November 18) to think more laterally to reduce their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, in their technology use and production management.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A DECISION this June by the leading US anti-money laundering (AML) agency, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), to call for changes to the US Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in respect of stored value or prepaid access cards has stirred interest and some controversy.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

A GLOBAL panel of experts has struck an international consensus that food and drinks is by far the main culprit for human exposure to plastics additive Bisphenol A (BPA), with other sources such as house dust, soil and plastic toys, being of "of minor relevance".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEDIUM-sized and large paint and coating coatings companies and their suppliers have wrongly claimed low administrative charges for small businesses under the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned. After the first November 30 deadline for registering chemicals under REACH has passed, ECHA officials will screen claims for the small business administration rate of Euro EUR8,300 and EUR2,070 for micro businesses, assessing whether these claimants were actually small.…

BY WANG FANGQING, ALAN OSBORN

Tainted tobacco leaves generate China push to restore polluted soil

A new report has warned that Chinese tobacco plants are sucking up heavy metals from contaminated soils. The Chinese tobacco industry is challenging the findings, and analysts predict sales will not be weakened.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

EUROPE’S food manufacturing industry has been generally positive about the European Commission’s new priorities to reform the European Union’s (EU) common agricultural policy (CAP) after 2013, released in a policy paper yesterday – but its representatives want more concrete action.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

AS the market for electric vehicles (EVs) picks up, the infrastructure for recharging them will inevitably have to keep pace – so, according to US-based consultants in global clean technology markets Pike Research (NOTE: CORRECT), there will be around 4.7 million EV charging units operating worldwide by 2015.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

AUSTRALIA’S paint industry is moving forward with optimism, with its home market benefiting from having dodged the recession.

"2010 has been a good year for the Australian economy when the world has been climbing out of the GFC," said Sarah Wang, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

A NEW study from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has highlighted the fact that while India has become the seventh largest producer of vehicles in the world, it still holds only 1% of the global export market.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

ALTHOUGH the production of confectionery products is on the lower end of the spectrum when it comes to susceptibility to food contamination scares, there are still certain, specific vulnerabilities that exist in the production of chocolates and sweet bakery items.…