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NONWOVENS manufacturing has grown fast in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with most of the major players less than two decades old. With a burgeoning population and strong export potential, MENA production has in general doubled over the past five years, especially in the region’s manufacturing hubs of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which currently have the strongest nonwovens sectors.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has welcomed Thailand lifting its longstanding ban on bovine product imports from European Union (EU) member states, but has complained that Bangkok is insisting on expensive inspections for approved exporters.

Live cattle, beef, veal and other bovine products from Austria, Belgium, Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia and Spain have been prevented from entering Thailand since 2001 over concerns about BSE.…

THE FAILURE of nine European Union (EU) member states to properly protect the welfare pregnant sows – breaking an EU law agreed 12 years ago – has caused the European Commission to threaten legal action over the issue.

It has given the governments of Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland and Portugal two months to say how they will resolve the problem or face a possible case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…

THE EUROPEAN Commission will ask all 27 European Union (EU) member countries to test representative samples of beef meet products to see if they contain any horsemeat, following the recent frozen food scandal.

“The idea is to have the DNA testing over the month of March and to publish the results on April 15,” EU health and consumer policy commissioner Tonio Borg said during a press conference in Brussels last night (Wednesday) after an emergency meeting with agriculture ministers of the seven EU countries affected by the horsemeat scam – the UK, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden and France.…

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared it is ready to investigate the contamination of beef products with horsemeat, because it raises issues of false labelling, food quality and traceability in the European Union (EU) food chain. Although there is no evidence at the moment of any food safety issues, risk managers from EU countries are already conducting extensive tests of meat products to assess their components.…

PHARMACEUTICAL companies seeking pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology information from across the European Union (EU) can now consult two new databases. Created by the public-private partnership PROTECT project, they are the Drug Consumption Database and the PROTECT ADR [adverse drug reaction] database.…

THE RANGE of penalties for fraud as well as the exact definitions of the offence that apply throughout western Europe are considerable. Within the European Union (EU) alone for instance, the maximum sentences for fraud range from from “at most two years” in Sweden to up to 12 years in Romania.…

WHAT impact could uncertainty in the run-up to a promised British referendum on continued membership of the European Union (EU) have on investment flows from the UK into commercial property and developments in the rest of the EU?

What might the impact be if a referendum did indeed take place and voters told their government loud and clear to quit the EU and free up the UK to make its own laws and regulations covering important aspects of finance, investment and tax?…

RUSSIA is now the world’s highest value market for super premium fragrances, in a development that appears to reflect the fabulous wealth of the burgeoning Russian middle and upper class.

The price of premium fragrances ranges wildly. At the top end, the latest super premium fragrance from Giorgio Armani (Armani Prive La Femme Bleue) is limited to only 1,000 bottles, and retails in Moscow with a price tag of around USD600 for a 100ml bottle.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) confectionery manufacturers and their suppliers stand to boost their export sales and reduce import costs with the launch of talks to forge the two largest bilateral trade deals ever sought by the EU – with the USA and Japan.…