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INTERNATIONAL clothing and textile experts gathered near Shanghai last week (September 23-7) to discuss solutions to China’s twin challenges – dealing with less foreign demand, while managing rising production costs.

Speaking at the 29th World Fashion Convention, Shanghai, staged in nearby Kunshan, Texhong CEO Hong Tianzhu told delegates it was time for Chinese manufacturers to upgrade their plant and processes, while moving some production outside China.…

A RECENT study led by a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that mainland Chinese citizens have 70 antibiotics-resistant genes in their gut microbes, compared with 45 in Denmark and 49 in Spain. While natural genetics might partly explain the gap, antibiotics abuse is the major reason, argued Zhu Baoli, head of the team.…

CROATIA became a European Union (EU) member state on July 1, and will be hoping that its significant olive oil sector will grow though eased EU market access and production support from Brussels.

Marta Bogdanic, director of projects for the food business group at the Croatian food and retail group Agrokor, which produces and sells a range of award-winning Croatian olive oils, and owns the largest olive groves in Croatia, told Oils & Fats International that Croatia’s EU accession will pose several challenges for the country’s olive oil sector.…

THE INSURANCE risks involved in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) are rising in line with growing industry complexity and the move into deeper, remoter and more environmentally sensitive environments.

This is placing ever greater demands on the need to identify, quantify and insure against risk, particularly when the financial and reputational repercussions of getting it wrong are escalating too.…

FOOD technology innovation could have a European Union (EU) budget of Euro EUR4.1 billion to tap from 2014 to 2020 under the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. Political agreement over its funding and spending rules was secured in June, creating an overall pot of EUR70.2 billion, from which EUR4.1 billion could be earmarked for food and food-related research projects.…

IN the global telecoms market where customers are now kings and queens, while once-dominant operators are humble stewards, only the best servants will survive. And these will be companies that offer their masters and mistresses exactly what they want – or it will be ‘off with their heads!’…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) food and feed safety rapid alert network (RASFF) has warned of a spate of problems involving salmonella contamination of imported meat and meat products. In some instances, consignments were exported from outside the EU, and others, within it.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will scrap the last remaining export refund available for meat exporters, following a 20 year liberalisation process.

Yesterday, (Thursday) the EU’s ‘management committee for the common organisation of agricultural markets: animal products’ agreed to scrap refunds payable for exports of frozen whole chickens (65-70%) to certain destinations, notably in the Middle East and the Commonwealth of Independent States (ex-USSR countries).…

The European co-generation sector has been looking hard for a competitive edge and one area of innovation that has helped it improve its energy efficiency is in the convergence of software, control and instrumentation, internet and wireless communication, and smart grids.…

WITH Europe’s economy still struggling to deal with the fall-out of the global financial crisis, its co-generation sector has had to fight to expand, or in some cases hold its position. Tightening national government budgets have meant that the co-gen industry has had to argue persuasively for public subsidies and tax breaks, or even the right to have equal treatment with renewable energies.…