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Research commissioned by British telecoms regulator Ofcom has concluded that 87% of adults accessing the Internet – or 43 million people – have seen content they suspected to be a scam or fraud (1). After surveying some 150,000 panellists for an ‘Online Scams & Fraud Research’ study, UK-based Yonder Consulting found 46% of UK adult internet users had been personally drawn in by an online scam, while 39% knew someone else who had.…

Better analytical capabilities should be implemented to reduce the incidence of adulterated honey being imported into the European Union (EU), industry observers claim after a testing programme revealed almost half of the samples were fraudulently labelled. This concern was uncovered by a research initiative, ‘From the hives’, led by the European Commission’s directorate-general for health and food safety.…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine launched last February (2022) has severely damaged Ukraine’s digital textile printing segment, and while it has also harmed the Russian industry, this sector has performed better than expected, despite comprehensive western sanctions.

In Ukraine, where the invasion had killed 8,101 civilians by February 28 (UN data), the country’s light industry, including its digital textile printing sector, continues to suffer from bombardment, logistical bottlenecks and persistent power cuts.…

The European Union (EU) has taken fresh action to reverse the decline of honeybees in Europe, with the European Commission revamping the EU Pollinators Initiative. The revised strategy involves spending on conservation, species reintroduction, research, monitoring and restricting dangerous pesticides. https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-5692-2023-INIT/en/pdf;…

Australia is at the forefront of developing innovative marine coatings that draw inspiration from nature. These have the potential to not only protect ships from biofouling but also reduce fuel consumption by up to 10% by mimicking the properties of streamlined natural surfaces.…

Money launderers continue to develop layering techniques to insert criminal proceeds into legitimate financial transactions, and these typologies are becoming increasingly varied.

‘Cuckoo smurfing’ is one new technique attracting attention, for instance, said a briefing note from Australian FIU Austrac (1).…

With European textile finishers keeping a close eye on sustainability rules being developed by the European Union (EU), the fact that the EU Council of Ministers on March 16 (2023) struck agreement (1) on European Commission proposals (2) for reforming the EU industrial emissions directive will require particularly careful attention.…

Growing online sales of tobacco products within the European Union (EU) are boosting industry revenues, despite increasing sales restrictions, including some outright bans on internet purchases of tobacco products. The German market and consumer data platform Statista foresees 2.5% of the total USD170 billion [EUR160 million] sales generated by the tobacco sector – all products – within 2023 will come from online sales, meaning USD4.25 billion [EUR4 billion].…

Russia’s bio-based oil sector looks set to benefit from the spoils of war, being poised to become the new global leader in the export of sunflower oil over the current agricultural year, overtaking past export leader Ukraine, which its military has invaded since last February, with 8,317 civilian deaths as of March 20 (2023).…

Psychologists have called for more spending on research into what personality types may be more susceptible to fraud, given more than GBP4 billion (USD4.billion) was lost to fraudsters in 2022 in the UK, according to a Money.co.uk study. (1) In the USA, consumer fraud alone caused losses of USD8.8 billion in 2022, an increase of more than 30% on 2021, according to the Federal Trade Commission.…