BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) — China’s government Tuesday launched a nationwide crackdown on fake and substandard agricultural production materials in the run-up to spring planting.
Officials from nine ministries and legal departments agreed at a tele-conference to organize local authorities to ensure hundreds of millions of farmers buy reliable materials.
The government would require local authorities [...]
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News: Fake Farming Materials Targeted in China
February 20th, 2009 No Comments
News: 200kg of Fake Viagra Seized in Haryana
February 18th, 2009 No Comments
New Delhi: Haryana Police on Sunday claimed to have recovered more than 200 kg of fake tablets of Viagra, the drug for erectile dysfunction.
The fake Viagra was recovered from a unit in Udyog Vihar in Haryana in a raid conducted jointly by the Haryana crime branch and Haryana State Drug Controller Organisation.
According to the police, [...]
Tags: Counterfeit Medication · Counterfeit Viagra · News · Pfizer
News: Germany Deploys Cyber Soldiers
February 17th, 2009 No Comments
GERMANY HAS REVEALED that it has a team of 76 soldiers who are trained to defend the country from cyber attacks and software piracy.Based in a barracks in the central Tomburg not far from Bonn, the unit is trained to sabotage attacks on Germany’s World Wide Wibble connections.
The commander of the corps is Brigadier General [...]
Tags: Cyber Piracy · European · News
News: Food Counterfeiting
February 16th, 2009 No Comments
CHICAGO — Intentionally contaminated Chinese milk killed several children and sickened 300,000 more, causing concern around an increasingly connected world economy. Demand for inexpensive products virtually guarantees future repeats of food adulteration and counterfeiting from overseas, Michigan State University researchers said, as trade volumes overwhelm regulatory oversight.
Nobody can guarantee safe food, said Ewen Todd, but [...]
