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EUROPE’S plastics manufacturers association PlasticsEurope has called on the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to maintain its current total daily intake (TDI) maximum for bisphenol A (BPA), saying it will be justified by upcoming studies. 

The call was made by PlasticsEurope Dieter Beyer, representing its polycarbonate/bisphenol A Group, at an EFSA meeting on the topic, in Brussels.…

INSIDER trading –and enrichment by officials – is a key reason why the Shanghai stock exchange remains stuck in a funk, underperforming in China’s overall economy for most of the past decade. “They [bureaucrats] are promoted on political criteria, not commercial…they don’t always have shareholders’ interests at heart,” explained Michael Komesaroff, principal of Urandaline Investment, an Australia-based consultancy working on outbound investment deals involving Chinese state-owned firms.…

DETAILED sentencing guidance for judges and magistrates in England and Wales trying fraud, money laundering and bribery cases has been released, stressing non-financial harm to victims must be taken into account along with monetary losses.

The Sentencing Council for England and Wales has released comprehensive sentencing tables categorising the judicial response to each of 20 financial crimes, where proven, taking account of a criminal’s role, the vulnerability of the victim, the scale of the scam and suffering caused. …

Is the party over for China’s frenetic airport development? Hardly. There are new airports being built in Beijing and the central city of Changsha. And new airports opening in the past year included Bijie Feixiong Airport, Chizhou Jiuhuashan Airport, Gannan Xiahe Airport, Daocheng Yading Airport, Kaili Huangping Airport, and three regional airports in the Alxa region of Inner Mongolia.…

JAPANESE food manufacturers are targeting south-east Asia as key export markets, leveraging their products’ sophisticated, fashionable and healthy image. Indeed, with a significant proportion of south-east Asian consumers becoming richer, the perception that Japanese brands can be relatively expensive can help marketing and certainly not harm sales, they say.…

Food manufacturers based in Venezuela have long struggled to supply the country’s oil-fuelled economy amidst strict government controls and shortages of many key industry inputs. And recent changes to the country’s currency regime could – say analysts and business leaders – intensify existing problems in the industry.…

BANGLADESH clothing producers who follow good labour standards and comply with good social responsibility practice have seen orders increase in recent months according to a local buying intermediary group. The Bangladesh Garment Buying House Association has estimated that orders in “compliant” factories have expanded by 15%-20% in recent months, although some face problems in handling fresh work.…

Global technology analysts Gartner Inc is well known for its articulated predictions. An announcement in January 2014 to accompany its report on ‘Predicts 2014: The Rise of the Postmodern ERP and Enterprise Applications World’, highlighted the complex, and at times conflicting scenario facing companies considering moving their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the cloud.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has added borates, chromium, coking coal, magnesite, phosphate rock and silicon metal to the European Union (EU) list of critical raw materials, prioritising EU policy actions to secure supplies of these minerals.

By adding these six materials, it raised the number of minerals considered of critical importance to the EU economy to 20.…

Compliance experts believe the sanctions imposed thus far by the USA and European Union (EU) on Russia over the Ukraine crisis will have a mixed effect. One of the biggest criticisms is that the sanctions were publicly discussed before being implemented giving targeted individuals time to get their finances to a safe haven.…