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Tap water contra mineral water

Pepsi's Aquafina and beverage industry leader Coca-Cola's Dasani are both made by purifying water that comes from public reservoirs.  PepsiCo Incorporated has decided to be transparent about the fact that...

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Weather and climate effects influence the price of agricultural products

Finance Ministry will raise its previous forecast in September. Finance Minister János Veres said market competition, trading channels and the impact of free trade in the EU (which helps even...

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Less food safety problems with hungarian products

After overall control in June the Hungarian Food Safety Office phased 125 products out of circulation. First of all the products bought  in the summer (beer, eiscream, soft drinks) would...

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Marketplace control, the biggest problem is the date of expiry

The Consumer Protection Agency checked last Saturday 120 stores on hungarian market places. 89 were put in the wrong, the penalty sum is HUF 12 million.  Products in value HUF...

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Politicians against unfair entrepreneurs

Karoly Herenyi, floor leader of MDF ask the leader of Consumer Protection Agency to publish the Agency's black list. A short time ago, MDF asks the Agency to make a...

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Plaza building fiber in Romania

With 2 million square metres of retail space available until 2010 – four times more than the current level, the domestic market is attracting more and more European clothing and...

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UK man charged with Tesco bomb threats

Europe's second biggest retail chain was several times blackmailed, but never payed. A 51-year-old man had been charged with making bomb threats against Tesco supermarkets which forced Britain's biggest retailer...

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Hungary jobless rate moderates further to 7.0%

Hungary's rate of unemployment dropped further to 7.0% year on year in the April-June period, from 7.3% in the previous three-month period and 7.5% in Feb-Apr, the Central Statistics Office...

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Hungarian like beer – retail sales growth

The can beer is more popular as the beer in bottle although it is more expensive – according to Nielsen's datas.  The sales value at can beers increased with 5%,...

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Plaza Centers would invest 115 million euros in a commercial center in Romania

The Israeli real estate company bought a 70,000 sm retail-office complex in Iasi.  The new commercial center will have 54,000 square meters of retail space, additional office space, in a...

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Less implugnable food products

Thanks for aligned food safety controls day after day decreased the number of unhealty raw material and food industry products. So the penalty is decreasing. From 90 slaughter house in...

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No more frosen meat

The EU rules are available in Hungary from 1 of August.  According a new food safety decree: retailer can't frozen the meat and it's prohibited to make meatproducts from frozen...

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The whole grain and high fibre food market will reach €15bn by 2010

According to a new report by Global Industry Analysts the baked whole-grain snacks market has the most potential for growth, the report said, and sales of foods such as oven...

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Dangerous import vegetables in Germany

With plant-protection material tainted pepper from Turkey and Spain were found in Germany. The 2/3 of the turkish pepper and 1/3 of spanish pepper contained dangerous material. In winter the...

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Less company on National Public Health and Medical Officer Service (NPHMOS)'s blacklist

Next week NPHMOS will refresh its blacklist about entertainer places, where food poisoning happened. Only that food industry companies or entertainer places will be on the list, where since 1....

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Beijing promises greater efforts to ensure food safety

The Beijing food safety authority has pledged to make greater efforts in inspecting catering businesses and food processing facilities across the city to ensure food safety. Beijing lawmakers are considering...

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Consumers happy to own fakes

The feak LV bags make USD 1 million damage for the french luxury maker Luis Vuitton.  For the fight against forgers LV company organised an anti feak commando, a department...

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Growth in every type of tax

Hungarian tax authority collects 19% more revenues in H1 than a year earlier.Some two thirds of the HUF 635 billion increase came from traditionally key tax revenues, APEH President János...

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(HU) Többé nem használható a RED 2G

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Governors step up push for children's health funding

The american nation's governors stepped up pressure on the Bush administration Sunday to boost federal spending on a health insurance program serving low-income children.  During its annual meeting, the National...

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Larvae found on pizzas

Czech authorities ordered the withdrawal of tens of thousands of frozen pizzas made by local manufacturer Guseppe after they were found to contain insect larvae.  "Our inspectors found 9,990 rotting...

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