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The European personal care product industry is facing a barrage of new European Union (EU) regulations, with a review of the 2009 Cosmetics Products Regulation (CPR) (1) being combined with environmental reforms. These changes, debated at the 2023 annual conference of personal care product industry association Cosmetics Europe – called ‘Preparing for the Future’- will be a major challenge.…

Textile finishers and dyers in the European Union (EU) will face another set of detailed sustainability rules, through the passage into law of a revised EU classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation. This move has sparked industry concerns about additional costs and loss of competitiveness on global markets.…

THE COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to the world, and changes in fashion that incorporated a desire to enjoy a healthy lifestyle was one. With many consumers spending more time at home, including during working hours, demand for comfortable clothes with functionality to aid indoor and outdoor exercise has boomed.…

Global negotiators continue to chase the dream of an international agreement on trading food and drink products, despite talks having continued, without agreement, since 2001. That was when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round of talks were launched, with the key goal of revamping the WTO agreement on agriculture, which covers food and drink.…

A new national mandatory recycling regime announced last November (2022) (1) being introduced by Ireland’s government has local breweries shying away from canned beer formats.

“We wouldn’t consider cans now because the DRS [deposit return scheme] scheme is punitive in its execution,” said Richard Siberry, founder, GM and head brewer of Roscommon-based Black Donkey Brewing, a craft brewer with nationwide sales.…

The Philippines’ demand for coatings and paints is leaving the pandemic behind, with London-based market researcher Euromonitor International reporting that home paint retail sales in the Asian archipelago returned to growth in 2021. That year, they recorded Philippines Peso PHP15.4 billion (USD280 million), up from PHP14 billion in 2020 but still lower than the PHP18 billion in pre-pandemic 2019.…

An Australian sheep farmer is seeking to demonstrate how additional welfare concern for wool livestock can pay dividends in international clothing and accessory markets where consumers are increasingly concerned about sustainability issues.

This trend has been developing over time – the wool industry has in the past encountered condemnation from animal welfare organisations, such as Peta, whose hard-core campaigns continue and focus on Australia as a major producer country (1).…

Greece’s dairy market and industry has been struggling to deal with major inflation impacting the sector, with an annual year-on-year increase of 23.1% in March (2023) for dairy and eggs, with 25.2% in February, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).…

The Lithuanian dairy industry has seen its share of highs and lows in recent years, culminating this year in a rash of dairy farmer protests, rising energy costs, inflation, farm closures, and rock bottom prices for raw milk. During the first half of 2022, export sales grew according to Lithuanian dairy producer organisation Pieno Centras (1), as dairy product prices rose and demand remained high, boosting production and Lithuanian farm milk sales.…

As researchers continues to identify health and environmental problems created by textile chemicals that have been widely utilised in the past, regulation tightens, and while this is rarely by international treaty, controls do spread worldwide over time. This is certainly the case regarding perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which have been commonly used within the clothing and textile sector for fire protection, water repellence and oil resistance, preventing stains.…