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Two senators have proposed a bill that would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to “ensure the safety of cosmetics.”

• Safety
• Cosmetics

In a new study, published in the journal Appetite, researchers stood outside fast-food restaurants and asked people to guess how much sodium they just ate. Their answers were almost always six times too low.

• Salt
• Food

Sri Trang Agro-Industry, the world's largest producer of natural rubber, plans to increase annual capacity by 20% to 2.9 million tons by year-end to take advantage of a market recovery.

• Thai
• Rubber

Four Chinese off-the-road tire manufacturers have followed through on their promise to appeal the U.S. Department of Commerce's revamped antidumping and countervailing duties against them for the 2014-2015 review period.

• China
• Tire

Doing so will help facilitate a more informed discourse on the safety of colors, while continuing our tradition of supporting the safe use of color additives.

• Additives
• Synthetic

Food additives are added to foods to serve specific technical purposes, and are classified depending on the function they perform when added to foods, e.g. stabilizers, thickeners, gelling agents.

• Food

B.K. Birla Group’s Century Textiles is in advanced talks to sell its paper business to JK Paper in a deal valuing the division at Rs5,000 crore by enterprise value.

• Textile
• India

Plymouth, Devon, UK Its rare to find a business collaboration within the exterior coatings industry that fits like a glove, but the recent teaming-up with coating giants Wetherby group, and the UKs most famous exterior wall coating...

• Coating

Work on applying a chemical on the 133-foot-tall Tiruvalluvar statue in the middle of the sea in Kanniyakumari is under progress at an estimated cost of ₹86 lakh, Tourism Minister Vellamandi N. Natarajan said here on Friday.

• Coating

Reactive softeners are usually applied as a thin layer coating on the surface of the cloth. These reactive softeners are electrically conductive and exhibit lubricant properties.

• Textile

f you buy a plastic bottle that is made of 30 percent less plastic, you really don’t experience your contribution to a greener society.

• Plastic
• Bottles

Clean Production Action (CPA) has launched GreenScreen Certified for Textile Chemicals at the Kingpins Show for the denim industry currently underway in Amsterdam.

• Textile
• Green

The construction market has always been cautious about allowing plastic products to replace traditional materials like wood, concrete, glass and metal. It's easy to understand why. These are products whose lifespans are defined in decades.

• Construction
• Plastic

After meat, cheese, cellphones and other consumer products that various government ministries have acted upon in recent months in order to reduce prices,

• Personal
• Care

To improve the oversight of personal home care services paid for by Medicaid, the solution is simple: Withhold money from states if they do not furnish the data that federal agencies require for monitoring.

• Medical
• Personal
• Care

Koller Beteiligungs GmbH, an interior parts supplier to automakers in Europe, has officially opened its first manufacturing operation in the Americas, just a few miles from Volkswagen AG's assembly plant, 82 miles southeast of Mexico City.

• Automakers
• Europe

The Federal University of Viçosa (UFV-MG) in Brazil has launched a new edition of the ‘Brazilian Tables for Poultry and Swine,’ which is considered one of the most important references in the formulation of feed for the global agribusiness industry.

• Feed
• Formulation

The demand for dairy products and meat is increasing by the day on account of growing population and the prevalence of a hectic lifestyle, making it essential for consumers to have a diet with everyday protein needs.

• Feed
• Additives

Textile entrepreneurs and yarn manufacturers from south Gujarat will be participating in the four-day-long 'Textile India-2017' being organized by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.

• Textile
• India
• Expo

Three new studies have restated the safety of the artificial colors Allura Red AC and Tartrazine, finding no health concerns at current levels of consumption and use, according to Food Navigator.

• Food Additives
• Colour Additives