The deals with the European Union and Japan to drop a contentious practice in US anti-dumping calculations known as ‘zeroing’ will prevent retaliation against American products
MEPs voted by a wide margin today (2 February) to ditch a European Commission plan for giving food producers new choices to promote products as having less fat, sugar or salt. More »
Biotech companies should agree not to market genetically modified (GM) crops in member states wishing to ban their cultivation before seeking EU approval for their products, a draft Danish proposal shows. More »
MEPs voted by a wide margin today (2 February) to ditch a European Commission plan for giving food producers new choices to promote products as have less fat, sugar or salt. More »
A proposal to give food manufacturers more flexibility to promote their products as low in fat, sugar or salt has been a dealt blow when a parliamentary committee voted to block changes to nutritional labels. The full European Parliament is expected to consider the issue tomorrow (2 February). More »
Like many people, myself included, playwright and monologue artist Mike Daisey was once a great fan of Apple products, until that is due to his own curiosity he decided to visit the Foxconn factory in China, which employs approximately 450,000 workers and manufactures most of Apple's products. Why does Apple choose to outsource product manufacturing to a Stalinist State, which...
