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PRESSURES GROW ONTO CHINA’S GOVERNMENT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT PORK
AFRICAN swine fever (ASF) has been squeezing pork supplies in China to a point where the country’s political leadership fears upheaval, as reflected by the country’s government influenced social media restricting ASF-related discussion. Even academic articles, if ASF-themed, now require explicit regulatory approval before publishing, informed sources in China, who requested anonymity, told just-food. …
GERMAN FREIGHT FORWARDER HIT WITH USD1 BILLION FINE OVER ANGOLA BRIBES
Disgraced German-owned freight forwarding company, FH Bertling, was fined GBP850,000 (USD1 million) June 3 for an Angolan bribery scheme, in a case brought by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The four-year investigation and prosecution by the SFO into the company’s British wing revealed that senior executives had conspired to pay USD350,000 in bribes to an agent of the Angolan state oil company, Sonangol, to secure USD20 million worth of shipping contracts between January 2004 and December 2006.…
GERMAN FREIGHT FORWARDER HIT WITH USD1 BILLION FINE OVER ANGOLA BRIBES
Disgraced German-owned freight forwarding company, FH Bertling, was fined GBP850,000 (USD1 million) June 3 for an Angolan bribery scheme, in a case brought by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The four-year investigation and prosecution by the SFO into the company’s British wing revealed that senior executives had conspired to pay USD350,000 in bribes to an agent of the Angolan state oil company, Sonangol, to secure USD20 million worth of shipping contracts between January 2004 and December 2006.…
MONGOLIA LOOKS TO LEVERAGE DAIRY TRADITIONS TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE EXPORT SECTOR
MONGOLIA’S grassland ecology has always lent itself to livestock and hence milk production, so it is no surprise that the development of a dairy industry has been a priority for its government and international institutions.
A five-year loan worth USD12 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development via Mongolia’s XacBank announced in February (2019) is just one such related initiative.…
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – ISO LAUNCHES NEW COCOA SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS
THE INTERNATIONAL Organization for Standardization (ISO) has launched a series of standards designed to help the cocoa industry ensure its products are both sustainably harvested and processed, but also traceable across their supply chains. Its ISO 34101 series is designed to promote good environmental and labour practices in a sector that involves sophisticated confectionery companies, global commodity traders and small farmers, often in poor countries, notably in west Africa.…
BEAUTY SECTOR RECEIVES DETAILED GUIDANCE FROM INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL BODIES
THE PERSONAL care product sector has an increasingly complex and global supply chain and as a result, international technical standards are growing in utility and importance. Where suppliers and retailers follow and require the use of international standards to guide their operations and products, there will be fewer nasty surprises, in orders and purchases.…
PLANNED EU RULING MAY REGULATE TATTOO INKS FOR THE FIRST TIME TO AVOID HEALTH RISKS
While today 12 out of every 100 Europeans are tattooed or have some sort of permanent cosmetic treatment, experts are increasingly concerned that these skin colouring agents may contain hazardous substances, known or suspected to have adverse health effects causing cancer, allergies or mutations.…
EUROPEAN NONWOVENS SECTOR GROWS EXPORTS AS A HIGH QUALITY CENTRE OF INNOVATION
EXPORTS of nonwovens products from the European Union (EU) to the rest of the world are on the rise, with in 2018 such overseas sales of nonwovens (whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated) within the 28 members of the European Union (EU) accounted for EUR4.33 billion, up from EUR4.19 billion in 2017.…
INDUSTRIAL MINERAL SECTOR HONES SKILLS THROUGH DETAILED INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
THE INDUSTRIAL minerals mining and processing sector and its customers has an increasingly complex and global supply chain and as a result, international technical standards are growing in utility and importance. Where suppliers and retailers follow and require the use of international standards to guide their operations and products, there will be fewer nasty surprises, in orders and purchases.…
BRITISH COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES AML COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON MAJOR DIRTY MONEY PROBLEM
The Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has announced a public inquiry [1] into how money laundering has distorted its economy after three independent reports noted how criminal funds have flooded into this Pacific coast region. BC Supreme Court Judge Austin Cullen has been appointed to head the inquiry, which BC attorney general David Eby said would have the power to force cooperation by “people and organisations who refuse to share what they know unless legally compelled to do so”.…