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Any market and industry benefits from supply diversification, so major textile and clothing companies can take heart from continued innovation amongst fibre and fabric producers over sourcing. This extends, for instance, to sourcing material from unusual places such as milk and fishing nets, while creating more opportunities for traditional sources such as flax.…

SPAIN has banned added sugar from fruit juices and nectars effective October 28, 2013 in line with the European Union (EU) juices directive 2012/12/EU. New rules for making, labelling, presenting and advertising juices and similar products also require identifying the amount of individual juices within mixtures.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced funding for three major research projects designed to promote innovation in the meat and livestock sector. They will be launched on Wednesday (Nov 6) and funded by the EU’s outgoing Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7), which ends next month (December 31).…

EUROPEAN AND Canadian meat traders are looking to boost overseas sales after today’s formal announcement of the widely anticipated Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

Speaking in Brussels, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said: “We were able to strike a very good balance between our offensive and defensive interests [in agriculture],” while noting that this area was particularly sensitive during the negotiations.…

HIGH tech innovators in sportswear and outdoor equipment are developing fabrics and garments that do more and perform better, from health monitoring to slowing the effects of aging. Many inventions spring from unlikely source materials, for instance waste milk. And for sports, manufacturers have to be especially clever – ensuring their innovations avoid creating uncompetitive advantages that break sporting rules.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has unveiled a study that signals huge losses directly caused by corruption in public procurement. It identified how in 2010, between Euro EUR1.4 and 2.2 billion was lost in tenders within just five sectors in eight EU member states.…

IT has been regarded as a hidden commercial crime – the losses to governments caused by corruption in public procurement. An OLAF report suggests its scale in Europe could be huge. Keith Nuthall reports.

THERE is no sugar coating these numbers: the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has unveiled a study that claimed in 2010 alone, between Euro EUR1.4 and 2.7 billion was lost to corruption in public procurement tenders within just five sectors in eight EU member states.…

DIGITAL innovation and exports dominated discussion at the 31st edition of Liber 2013, Spain’s leading book fair, which ended on Sunday (October 6) in Madrid after drawing 10,000 visitors, compared with 6,000 last year in Barcelona.

And while 450 exhibitors and 300-plus international buyers almost universally framed their comments in terms of recession, robust overseas sales and advances in e-publishing made for a slightly more positive mood than last year.…

TECHNICAL and security experts have gathered at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to consider how to roll-out developing automated border control (ABC) systems, which offer hard-pressed airports the ability to better process surging passenger numbers.

Staged at ICAO’s headquarters, in Montréal, Canada, from October 22 to 24, the agency’s ninth symposium and exhibition on MRTDs [machine readable travel documents] biometrics and border security debated ABC developments such as newly-emerging technologies; trust issues; reliability; non-intrusiveness; biometrics; effective inspections tools; trusted traveller programmes; challenges to border integrity and ways to address them.…

IF further evidence was needed that Asian outsourcing is becoming increasingly mature, with a reliance on international supply chains, then the FOB division of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s Nha Be Garment Corporation Joint Stock Company (NBC) is a case in point.…