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– 16th Mar 2010 by Alex Briggs
China has vowed to clampdown on food safety issues across the supply chain. In this Food Quality News article, China’s Vice Minister of Agriculture Wei Chao’an said,
Our agricultural products overall are safe and of high quality, but we must also recognize that while we transition from traditional to modern farming, many of our operations remain scattered, production methods are still backward and our supervision lags behind.
– 9th Jan 2010
Fresh questions have been raised about China’s food safety policy after it emerged that officials waited almost a year before going public with its latest probe into alleged melamine contamination in milk.
– 2nd Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs
Today’s link is to Nicholas Brown’s blog post on the progress being made in the shipping sector on climate change issues.
– 2nd Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs
Today’s link is to Sean Cuthbert’s blog post on CCS and the Copenhagen conference. Sean is recognised as a leading thinker on Carbon Capture and Storage.
– 2nd Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs
Today’s link is to the first blog post of the Lloyd’s Register COP 15 Climate Change blog. Today’s blogger is Dr Anne-Marie Warris.
– 1st Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs
Sean Cuthbert’s blog post takes a look at the climate change debate and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in particular.
– 30th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs
Building on the success of the Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Podcast Series, today is the beginning of the Lloyd’s Register COP 15 blog. Dr Anne-Marie Warris, our leading climate change expert, is our blogger for day one. Her first post is up now. The blog will run at least through the Copenhagen negotiations, with several leading experts from different sectors and nationalities posting their views on the COP negotiations.
– 3rd Oct 2009 by Richard Gunawan
With the Copenhagen round less than three months away, it’s easy to forget that Kyoto – signed by 37 industrialised countries and the European Union — is nearing its 12th birthday. Its critics argue that few signatory nations will meet their binding five-year targets to reduce by 5% their county’s green house emissions by [...]
– 22nd Sep 2009 by Richard Gunawan
All goods bought and sold move through supply chains of some description, making the security of goods in transit an issue that alerts everyone. While terrorism is a potential threat, theft is a clear and present menace; it erodes profitability and disrupts supply chains on an on-going basis.
The cost of theft is a major driver [...]
– 24th Jul 2009 by Richard Gunawan
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