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As controversy continues over the disconnect between the European Union (EU) animal livestock stunning rules and halal slaughtering requirements, the Netherlands’ Muslim official representative organisation has designed a new halal standard that aims to create a system that respects both religious rules and animal welfare needs.…

Fraud investigators need to spend less time pretending to be a TV detective and more time being their authentic selves when probing scams, a former instructor at the USA’s Inspector General Criminal Investigator Academy (IGCIA) has stressed to Fraud Intelligence.

In an interview, Mark Anderson, of Anderson Investigative Associates (AIA), who has also worked at the USA department of justice and the department of homeland security’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Centre, said: “We have to have a consistency in who we are.…

India’s 1.3 billion population with an average age of 29, has been witnessing steady growth in meat consumption. According to an OECD report, India consumed six million tonnes of meat in 2020 (4.6kg per person). Nearly half the population now consumes non-vegetarian meals once a week in India.…

South Korea’s paint and coatings market is readying itself for a sustained rebound after 2021 saw it recover from declining sales in 2020 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. UK-based market researcher Euromonitor International’s Paints and Varnishes in South Korea report published in December 2021 showed that the country’s paints and varnishes production value declined by 0.9% year on year in 2020, to USD6.8 billion, but Euromonitor predicts the industry’s turnover will have fully recovered in 2021 to 2019 levels or beyond. …

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared it will impose an effective European Union (EU) ban on using bisphenol A (BPA) to make food contact materials coatings. It is consulting on plans to reduce a tolerable daily intake by consumers of BPA to almost zero – 0.04 nanograms per kilogram of body weight per day.…

Chinese e-cigarette companies have long enjoyed a close to regulation-free environment, able to sell products freely, but that is about to change. On November 26, China’s highest government body, the State Council, announced that in future “novel types of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, must comply with the tobacco monopoly law”.…

The Chinese government’s policy of pursuing zero Covid-19 cases in China has been causing significant supply chain challenges across all the country’s industries and markets. But in the food industry, companies importing ingredients or frozen foods have had to tackle the toughest issues.…

The global market for halal nutraceutical products, including vitamins and wellbeing supplements, is set to double over the next 10 years, according to new research. A report from Dubai-based Future Market Insights (https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/reports/halal-nutraceuticals-and-vaccines-market), published last July (2021), predicted sales of these products would increase from USD58.01 billion in 2021 to USD116.38 billion by 2031.…

While a projected boom in renewable diesel production is expected to disrupt the American bio-based oils and fats market, a swifter adoption of electric transport technology in Europe is likely to reduce this impact in the European Union (EU), the European Commission has projected.…

AS the one-year anniversary (January 31, 2022) (WRONG) following the end of UK commitments to follow European Union (EU) law and treaties has just passed, food and drink companies have little positive to say about the extra red tape that has followed.…