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JAPANESE consumers’ preference for meat is growing so strongly, it has pushed domestic per capita fish consumption to its lowest level since the 1960s, according to 2015 figures from Japan’s ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. The gap between levels of meat and fish consumption is increasing; meat consumption overtook that of fish about six years ago but the gap is widening; fish consumption is now 30% less than it was at its peak, in 2001. …

COTTON

Cotton maybe one of the most popular fibres for clothing and accessories because of its universality, timelessness, and availability, but this past year has shown that the fibre is not immune to volatile economic markets. World cotton production fell by 17% to 21.65 million tonnes in 2015-2016, the lowest volume since 2003-2004, according to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC).…

Earlier this year Italian pasta giant Barilla presented its latest technological innovation: a next generation 3D printer that swaps ink for pasta dough and is able to make unique pasta shapes in just minutes.

Barilla is among the world’s first food producers to leverage the latest digital technologies and apply them to food production.…

THE SECRETARY General of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has said her UN agency will work hard to help forge consensus over emissions controls among member states, now ICAO hopes to approve a new global market-based measure (GMBM) limiting civil aviation’s climate change impact.…

Social media has become an integral part of society, but it is a double-edged sword when it comes to fraud investigations. Many anti-fraud professionals use information found on social media sites to aid in investigations, but this information, readily available to the public, has also been helping fraudsters commit scams – and dupe more people with their deceptions.…

THE CIVIL aviation industry and its suppliers are innovating solutions to comply with the new tracking rule from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) which came into force in July and will be compulsory for new planes with a take-off mass exceeding 27,000kg from January 2021.…

THE UNITED States (US) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged accounting firm Ernst & Young (EY) USD9.3 million on September 19 to settle charges that it violated auditor independence rules. This follows findings that two separate partners both had personal relationships with senior financial officials in public companies they were auditing. …

Sri Lanka’s cosmetic and beauty product manufacturers are becoming increasingly anxious over the lack of sales regulations, promoting significant volumes of lower grade cosmetic imports, putting local manufacturers at risk. 

Until July 2015, there was a specific authority to oversee cosmetic products being imported as well as distributed in the country.…

India’s digital printing industry is successfully challenging the country’s traditional finishing sector, expanding rapidly thanks to reduced costs, support from country’s large textile export sector and an ability to respond to changing fashion trends. “The share of digital textile printing will increase from five to 15 percent in next six to seven years,” said Siddharrthha A Jain, partner at Printtech, a digital textile printing company based in Gurgaon, near New Delhi, noting that currently there are 250 to 300 such companies in India.…

AS a decades-long prohibition on production and sale of the ‘cannabis sativa’ plant and its components are falling away throughout North America, the use of hemp as a personal care product ingredient is on the rise.

In the United States (US), four states have legalised recreational cannabis (Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska), along with the capital territory Washington DC, while 21 states have legalised medical marijuana, boosting growth in the legal consumption and production of the plant.…