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THE EUROPEAN Commission is to coordinate a second set of DNA tests across the European Union (EU) this spring, similar to those conducted last year following the horsemeat mis-labelling scandal, with results being published by the end of this July.

It would be the second time the Commission has organised DNA tests across the EU to find out if horsemeat is being fraudulently added to products labelled as beef.…

COSMETICS was one of the top five categories of dangerous products notified through the European Union’s (EU) rapid alert system on dangerous consumer products (RAPEX) in 2013, according to a report published yesterday (25 March) by the European Commission.

Out of the 2,364 notifications received last year, 106 were related to cosmetics (including haircare products).…

A COMPROMISE between the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers in February over new non-financial reporting rules will insist that many of the largest EU companies disclose their impact and policies on the environment, social and employee-related matters, human rights, anti-corruption and bribery.…

THE USE of nonwovens manufacturing technology to make woundcare products has always been a key part of the nonwovens sector, but increasingly one of its fastest-growing global niches is medical single-use disposables. This is partly due to legislative changes in the US; partly to hopes for fast track, permanent elimination of the European Union’s (EU) 4.3% import tariff on America nonwovens; and partly to catch-up usage in Asia, and to a lesser extent Europe, where the supplanting of long-established re-use practices appears to have barely begun.…

ENERGY ministers of smaller European Union (EU) member countries are worried about the potential impact the 2030 climate and energy targets proposed by the European Commission in January could have on energy-intensive industries such as minerals processing, an EU energy council meeting yesterday (Tues March 4) in Brussels revealed.…

Leading Danish meat processing companies fear that a recently negotiated three-year wage agreement for workers in the industry threatens to erode producers’ already low margins. Major players, such as Danish Crown, can be expected to respond to the 6% wage hike (an average of 2% a year over three years) by pursuing further cost-reduction programmes at plants in Denmark in a bid to maintain margins at existing levels.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) meat demand and production are expected to recover this year, after two years of decline in EU pork and beef supplies, the European Commission predicted yesterday (March 5). In its Winter 2014 Short-Term Agricultural Outlook, the Commission said: “Meat consumption is expected to increase in the short run, thanks to improvements in the economy and of meat availability.”…

MANY European Union (EU) countries are unsure whether imposing mandatory labelling requirements for the country of origin of meat used as ingredient in processed food products would bring benefits that justify the costs, a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels yesterday (24 March) revealed.…

THE CHINESE government is to invest Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY10 billion (USD1.6 billion) to boost the textile industry in the country’s largest cotton producing region – the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in western China. According to the Xinjiang local government, this investment will be used to attract clothing manufacturers from other provinces, build infrastructure, and to subsidise existing local textile companies by lowering taxes and subsidising logistics costs.…

MYANMAR has earned more than USD1.1 billion in 2013 from garment exports since the European Union (EU) restored GSP (Generalised System of Preferences) trading privileges to the country, the vice-chairman of the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association, Dr U Aung Win, told just-style.…