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Beijing Says Food Safe for Olympic Athletes, Tourists

...ijingers. A government hot line opened in 1999 for consumer complaints has proved to be a useful weapon. "Food-safety complaints were the highest proportion of complaints in 2006, about 25 percent of the total," said Han Miao, deputy director of the complaint centre. However the official assurances fall f...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...fuel right now for fuel cell cars, but there is no consumer distribution system in place. While methanol, a liquid, can be piped, trucked and stored in the existing network for gasoline with minor conversion costs, hydrogen will require an entire new fuel distribution infrastructure. Ulf Hafseld, HyNor's pr...

European Commission Seeks To Dispel The Darkness Out Of Sunscreens

...rm to a common standard of information would end consumer confusion and help to reduce skin cancer, which in... diagnosed last year. Recent tests by Which? -a consumer association, found that many sunscreens failed to offer the protection or even the SPF promised on t...

Battle Between Google and Microsoft Could Trigger Revolution in Healthcare

...r diagnosis," said Kruger. However, in a report on consumer electronics and ehealth, Wireless Healthcare Describes a number of funding models that have already been deployed by Companies marketing healthcare devices and services to the growing 40 to 59 demographic group - people who both take their health ser...

Replacement Drivers Lend a Helping Hand to the Drunk and Stranded in Korea

...ervices as an element in calculating the benchmark consumer price index. An estimated 100,000 replacement drivers handle 700,000 customers a day across the country, the number increasing by 30 percent on Fridays, according to the Korea Service Driver Society, a lobby for replacement drivers. The peak is bet...

EPA to Improve Nanotechnology

...ow over 500 manufacturer-identified nanotechnology consumer products being sold, said Dr. Maynard. This figure does not include nanotechnology products on the market but not identified as such, or the hundreds of nano raw materials, intermediate components, and industrial equipment items used by manufacture...

Sun Protection Ignored Despite Warnings

...nd take care not to burn." The growing need for consumer awareness has not gone unnoticed by the European Commission, which has started an information initiative this week that requires sunscreen manufacturers to amend all sunscreen labels by next summer. Professor Peter Rigby, Chief Executive of The Ins...

Trial of VivaGel in Sexually Active Young Women Commences

...garding the product's use and acceptability in the consumer setting," said Dr Jackie Fairley, Chief Executive ...attractiveness of topical gel microbicides in this consumer group. The importance of topical microbicides is highlighted by statistics from UNAIDS and the U.S...

Southeast Missouri State Provides High-tech Protection Against Staph Infections

...hield(R) technology, which has been safely used in consumer goods ranging from shoes to diapers and in medical applications from clean rooms to surgical dressings for more than 30 years. Registered with the EPA, it imparts an invisible layer of antimicrobial protection that will not leach any chemicals or hea...

Study Shows Positive Results for Zestra(R) Feminine Arousal Fluid

...es not require clinical trials of non-prescription consumer products, Zestra Laboratories elected to conduct a Phase III-type FDA-quality study to further assess the product's safety and effectiveness," said Martin Crosby, Zestra's developer. "Our collaboration with the nation's leading medical and sexual hea...

No Progress in France on 'skinny Model' Charter

..., advertising and media representatives as well as consumer groups and health disorder experts, and is headed by child pyschiatrist Marcel Rufo. His office said it was waiting for instructions from the new minister to continue the work. In Rome this week, 15 models were kicked out of a fashion show for bein...

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

... India is the third largest tobacco producer and consumer in the world after China and the US. India exports only one fourth of its total annual tobacco output, which is nearly 545 million kilograms. Tobacco victims in India out-number the AIDS victims, as one million of the 250 million tobacco users in the...

101 Websites That can Change Your Life Enlisted

...stuff works. Besides including seven of its own consumer sites, the Which? list also mentions familiar favourites like YouTube, Wikipedia, eBay and Dateline. Mike Channell, a writer for PC Format magazine, believes that the list can helpful for people who were looking for sources of practical advice. "...

Motorists Getting Greyer, Greener, Thriftier: Nissan's Ghosn

...Co. and its French partner Renault. "The average consumer on earth is going to be much older. We know also t...w of the car on a dashboard display. Another big consumer trend is less tolerance of greenhouse gas emissions, said Ghosn, who achieved legendary status in th...

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...e years time your Ascot (horse-racing event) going consumer will be choosing lighter glass," he claimed. For young Japanese consumers, he said, the choice might be a PET bottle, but either way choices would be driven partly by the retailer and partly the media. As an example he cited the Guardian newspaper'...

US FDA Wants Vitamin Manufacturers to Test All Ingredients

...ludes requirements for record keeping and handling consumer complaints. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, who has testified before Congress on problems with dietary supplements, said the new rule does not ease his concern that unsafe supplements are too easy to bring to market. "You still don't have to show the product i...

Taking Animals Out of Laboratory Research

...h lessen the quality of human and animal life. New consumer products, medicines, and industrial and agricultural chemicals must be adequately tested in order to identify potential hazards to human and animal health, and to the environment. Boots plc contributed to the official opening on July 6, a further g...

This 'Grass' is Not Green - Say, 'No Thanks, I Am Fine Without Drugs'

...s have altered the potency of the drug to give the consumer an intense high. This has led to an increase in the number of takers for this drug. Naturally, there has been a surge in drug associated crime. Many unfortunate accidents have taken place as a direct consequence of illicit drugs. There have also ...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...n Mizoram, which happens to be the highest tobacco consumer . According to authorities, Mizoram has the high... India is the third largest tobacco producer and consumer in the world after China and the US. India exports only one fourth of its total annual tobacco out...

US Supreme Court Could Protect Medical Equipment Manufacturers from Law Suits

From abortion to consumer rights, the conservatives-dominated US Supreme Cou...imply prohibit states from imposing more stringent consumer regulations than what it lays down. True to his undisguised bias for the industry, Bush has been t...

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