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  • China tightens food safety

    I might be having a deja vu but I thought China already has strict melamine testing rules implemented following the melamine tainted pet food and toothpaste scandals last year? According to ICIS news (subscription required), the Chinese government is proposing new standards to focus on melamine testing...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-21-2008
  • Agencies place melamine measures

    The Chinese melamine scare has spread far and wide across the globe (proving the powerful reach of China-made products) and so the European Commission announced several measures last week to protect Europeans from melamine-contaminated milk (and other melamine-contaminated products). The Commission banned...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
  • Here comes China melamine..again

    After a spectacular Olympic event in China, you'd kind of forget some of the tainted food and consumer goods problems that the country faced before then. Unfortunately, there has been another recent tainted food problem going around in China and this time it affected infant formulas. According to...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008
  • China's green revolution

    Here's a nice interesting insight from my colleague John Richardson about China's fast track towards becoming the world's leader in clean technologies. If you're an ICIS subscriber ( about ICIS ), you can access the whole article in this link . Or you can also read the unedited somewhat...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2008
  • Pollution solution in China

    As China's Beijing continues to be shrouded with smog days before the Olympic games, more transportation solution is being offered to reduce air pollution from companies such as Segway and Alcoa . Chinese and Olympic officials are going to use the zero-emissions Segway PT for stadium and event hall...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
  • What's today's air forecast in China?

    In China, not only do you need forecasts for weather, pollen, UV rays, and wind, you also need to monitor air pollution forecasts especially with the incoming Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Starting July 20, car traffic was restricted in the city in order to to take 50 percent of Beijing's 3,5...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-25-2008
  • China and biomass

    Speaking of China again, it seems that biomass could answer (partially at least) two of the country's biggest problems: pollution and energy source. According to this study from AMBIO (a nonprofit publication of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), China could reduce pollution as much as 46-60...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008
  • Is China ready to be green?

    Not only is China ready for green, it is already one of the biggest producer of green-based chemicals, according to the life science and chemicals firm DSM China Ltd. China ranked number #1 in the production of sodium glutamate, citric acid, lysine and vitamin C, while in bioethanol and lactic acid,...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-02-2008
  • Chinese new green year

    Several news I came across regarding green investments in China. This red country has been getting a lot of black publicity lately about pollution and quality control so it's good to get some green news for a change. This week, DSM says it is investing $20m in Tianjin Green Bio-Science (TGBS) Co...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-06-2008
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