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A YOUNG population with high disposable incomes coupled with a booming medical tourism sector has created an ongoing demand for cosmetic procedures in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Dubai especially dominates this important market, being a global luxury-centric city with world-class medical infrastructure.…

JAPAN’S spa and beauty salon markets are well developed and established, undoubtedly a reflection of the country’s well-known traditions of cleanliness and looking good. Being well-established has arguably made further expansion and growth in the sectors more challenging, while Japan’s shrinking birth rate and population do not bode well for longer-term expansion.…

INTERNATIONAL US-based luxury cosmetics supplier Coty might have strengthened the rights of brands to control how third-party retailers sell and portray their products in a precedent-setting case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

An advocate general of the European Union’s (EU) top court has argued in a formal opinion that EU law allows brands authority over these sales, even being able to prevent purchases, if they dislike how online and traditional bricks-and-mortar stores present their image.…

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.…

India’s Heritage Foods and France’s Novandie will be investing Indian Rupees INR160 million (USD2.5 million) in building a yoghurt manufacturing facility in Maharashtra as part of a 50-50 joint venture. “The plant would be set up in western region, in the vicinity of Mumbai or Pune and will start production next year (2018),” a company spokesperson told just-food.…

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.”…

BANGLADESH’S apparel makers have heaved a sigh of relief following a government announcement that it has received new explosives–detecting equipment for Dhaka airport, which the industry hopes will persuade the European Union (EU) to lift a direct flight air cargo ban.    …

A GERMAN initiative designed to boost sustainability in the clothing and textile sector has been losing members, but a senior manager has told just-style it will continue working hard to extend its influence and would fix operation problems.

The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, set up in 2014 by Germany’s federal ministry for economic cooperation and development, has seen members fall from 188 at the beginning of this year to 148 at present.…

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.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission should do more to ensure stricter safety rules for coatings and varnishes coming into contact with food, industry experts have told Polymers Paint Colour Journal (PPCJ), following MEPs’ calls for European Union (EU)-wide measures last October.

Indeed, the European Union (EU) industry group CEPE (the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists’ Colour Industry) has said: “An agreed harmonised protocol for risk assessment is urgently required,” agreed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the Commission, EU member states and Europe’s paint and coatings industry.…