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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made three announcements on ‘drones’ – doubling the permitted blanket altitude; relaxing rules for students and establishing a committee to advise on integration issues.

The US authority increased the maximum height for permitted drones to 400 feet from 200 feet.…

Chinese authorities have set up a laboratory to study and prevent bird strikes.

The lab – the first of its kind in China – will operate at Tianjin Binhai International Airport and carry out ecological analysis of birds.

Scientists will be study warning, intervention and correlation patterns by analysing habitat, soil, water and plants as well as analysing different ways of dispersing flocks.…

Infant formula was back in the news for wrong reasons again in China recently when cans of powder bearing fake labels for the Chinese Beingmate brand and Similac brands (owned by the US-based Abbott Laboratories) sparked nine arrests in April. Police have claimed 17,000 cans of infant formula were involved, being sold in the provinces of Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei.…

Limiting an agreement on the controversial Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) to cutting tariffs will not suffice, and could have negative consequences for some segments, major food manufacturers and their representatives in the European Union (EU) and United States have told just-food.com.…

THE HONG Kong government has said that its Inland Revenue Department will closely assess data released in the Panama Papers leak, taking action against tax evasion and avoidance by taxpayers uncovered within these documents. In a written answer to the special administrative region’s (SAR) Legislative Council, the government admitted however that it did not know the number of intermediaries in Hong Kong providing offshore incorporation company services.…

The paint and coatings sector in China has since the beginning of 2015 been watching as regulators implement a series of stricter environmental policies, most notably amendments to the country’s environmental protection law and air pollution control law. Under the revised environmental law, fines are no longer a low, one-off financial penalty but instead accrue daily until a polluter has stopped polluting.…

NUTRITIONAL labelling for confectionery and sweet bakery products sold across the European Union (EU) will become mandatory by December 13, but the industry is confident it will comply. It also generally prefers a common EU-wide system to national variants, such as the UK’s voluntary traffic lights labelling system that can cause unwanted difficulty for labelling.…

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-backed research project has developed bio-based, ‘smart’ packaging for industries such as cosmetics that can help companies become more sustainable and provide useful data on the packaged content.

The DIBBIOPACK project used bio-based materials tailored to fit a wide range of packages in the cosmetics sector, as well as food and pharmaceuticals, such as films made by extrusion laminating, trays or lids developed by injection moulding and bottles performed through extrusion blow moulding technologies.…

ITALY’s parallel Cosmoprof and Cosmopack shows always push quality in key aspects of the personal care product industry and its 2016 edition was all about precision, personalisation, portable beauty and high-tech beauty solutions

An innovative new beauty product presented at this year’s 49^th edition of the international beauty trade show, Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna [March 18-21, 2016] proves that, like smart-fashion, the cosmetics and personal care sector is ready for portable technology.…

In Argentina, investor optimism has swelled since the arrival of a conservative government in December, but sales of cosmetics and personal care products have taken a hit as soaring inflation cuts consumer spending power.

Argentina fell into a recession this year after four years of slow growth, and a spate of economic reforms by the new President Mauricio Macri has sped up the inflation rate to nearly 40% from 26% in 2015.…