NEW DELHI: Bisleri International chief Ramesh Chauhan’s ambitious plans to foray into a spate of beverages, including health drinks, sugar-free juices and juice drinks and fortified and flavoured waters, are nearing completion. This, even as his spat with Coca-Cola over the international rights of juice drink Maaza remains unresolved. Mr Chauhan’s plans of entering the beverages segment...
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More recently, parts of the industry said they would support a more effective tracing system but insisted that businesses in the food chain—not the government—should devise the method that works. The chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) said the industry has brought on its own troubles. "FDA's inability to pinpoint the source of the recent...
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Two very rich men (Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, and Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft) pledged £250m last week to fund a worldwide anti-smoking campaign. I wonder how that sits with our former Secretary of State for Health, Dr John Reid, who once said that the working class "had every right" to smoke. Smoking kills – and it's generally the poor, rather than the rich, who succumb...
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“There is tremendous market interest for plastics derived from renewable, sustainable sources” says Industrial Biotechnology Corporation CEO Andy Badolato. “Major retailers, consumer product companies, and the packaging and plastics industries are working together to implement solutions to lessen our dependence upon foreign oil and to reduce global warming. The utilization of sugar cane...
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Waltham, MA - PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, a global leader in application-focused measurement and analysis solutions, recently announced a LABWORKS Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) package tailored for the petrochemical and refining industry. LABWORKS processLIMS simplifies data management by providing an integrated suite of software applications, interfaces...
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