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Crown Capital Eco Manageament - Food fraud tackled by forensic scientists - 0 views
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Wine, spirits, meat and even baby food can all be faked, with fraudsters hiding their true origins. Now forensic scientists are clamping down on food fraud, which costs millions in lost revenue and can put the health and safety of the public at risk.
Imagine tucking into a fine fillet of "British" beef, only to learn it actually came from Australia. Or drinking "French" wine that actually came from California.
What if the "Italian" olive oil you pour over the accompanying salad originated in Morocco?
That might not be so bad, you may think.
But what if a bottle of vodka you'd purchased in good faith is tainted with methanol, making it lethal to drink?
Or the baby food you feed your youngest is not what the label on the jar said it is?
As global trade has increased, so has the potential for food fraud, where fraudsters lie or hide the true provenance of produce.
Alongside food safety and health fears, its raises concerns over quality control, reputational damage and lost revenue, and puts the spotlight on illegal activity.
Now some firms are taking to using scientists, a type of food "crime scene investigators", to tackle the issue.
Faking it
In a world where food is exported and imported every day, how do you prove that the origin of a product is legitimate?
A company in New Zealand has developed a scientific origin system which maps and catalogues "food fingerprints".
"What we do needs to be able to stand up in court," says Dr Helen Darling, from Oritain.
Most food supply chains use predominantly paper-based systems to trace the origin of food, such as following barcodes.
But while these show the route a product has travelled and how, and "whatever kind of details you want to capture in that system", says Dr Darling, Oritain's proof of origin "cannot be faked".
Oritain's scientific liaison officer Rebecca McLeod says it ties food and drinks back to their geographic origin, by mea
Crown Capital Eco Management: Green energy plant to power 25,000 homes - 1 views
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Crown Capital Eco Management: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/green-energy-plant-to-power-25000-homes-29461216.html Renewable energy could power 25,000 homes and boost carbon neutral generation by 10% with the opening of Northern Ireland's biggest biomass plant in 2015. The £80m project will also create around 200 construction jobs and 20 permanent positions. Work is expected to start over the next few weeks on the plant, which won planning permission three years ago, on a 10-acre site at Londonderry Port. At least 115,000 tonnes of recycled wood will be burnt every year over 20 years to produce heat and power at the Evermore Renewable Energy Plant in Lisahally, described as a combined heat and power plant (CHP). Brothers Ciaran (30) and Stephen Devine (28) from Eglinton are the co-founders of Evermore Renewable Energy, which is leading the project and has won funding of £20m from the UK Government's Green Investment Bank in its first venture in Northern Ireland. Specialist bank Investec is lending £40m to the scheme and infrastructure investors Gravis Capital Partners £20m. The plant will be built and run by Scandinavian firm Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S (BWSC), also taking its first steps into Northern Ireland. Related Articles: http://crowncapitalmngt.com/ http://www.zinepal.com/ebook/sunnyr41n/138933 Power NI will buy all the energy produced on a long-term contract and use it to power 25,000 homes in the north west. Stephen Devine said the brothers shared a business background, with Ciaran working as a stockbroker in London and Stephen for business advisers KPMG up until four years ago when they began planning the plant. He said: "Renewable energy is one of the most important sectors in the economy at the moment. We need to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. "It's a stable market and that's a key factor for ourselves. "We wanted to have a project that would benefit the people of Northe
Crown Capital Management: What we do - 1 views
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Crown Capital Eco Management reviews regional and global environmental trends and conditions, fosters the transfer of technical knowledge for sustainable development and encourages new partnerships among agencies and private sector associated with nature preservation. Our Vision Crown Capital Eco Management envisions a world where people enjoy and explore the natural resources of the Earth through practicing, securing and promoting the responsible use of such resources and maintaining the quality thereof for the sake of future generations.
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Crown Capital Eco Management: Fraudsters attack even natural disasters victims/CURRENT/LIVEJOURNAL/BLOGGER - 1 views
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http://current.com/groups/crown-capital-eco/ Crown Capital Eco -Natural Disasters Victims: Scammers Wait until we are in our Lowest Opportunists prey on natural disasters' victims and even those who want to help. They would not miss any single chance that they could profit something from any kind of people by taking advantage of their weaknesses. Victims are at their most desperate state and scammers see this as an opportunity to deceive them. "After practically every disaster, in the United States or abroad, charity scams pop up," says John Breyault, vice president of the National Consumers League. "We saw charity scams pop up after Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti and the Indonesian tsunami, to name just a few." These frauds come in various shapes and sizes as well as the scammers. They would take advantage the helplessness of the victims, they will show up and their front door, offer help and after they collected the payment in advance they would not show-up afterwards or worse make a bigger damage on the victim's properties. Beware of email scams; through email fraud they can easily target victims during in time of need. Although natural disaster's victims are not their target rather potential donors after the disaster are being preyed. Following a number of cases against email frauds after a disaster, the U.S. Department of Justice established the National Center forDisaster Fraud. Email and social medias are often also being used, urging you to click on a photo and then would ask for many things after that will lead you to send out money. The department insisted not to click on links instead independently seek information about charities you are interested in helping. Better yet, go directly to well known charities or charities that you already know. Request of money donations are automatically considered as illegitimate, no record will be provided if the said organization did received the money and on your part you will not have
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Crown Capital Eco Management - Flooded summer season, Atlantic Ocean blames - 1 views
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Northern Europe picks on the Atlantic Ocean because of its wet summer according to a new study. The rising and falling of ocean temperature or the so called cyclical deception is seen as a major extortion on the weather. The said pattern reported will last long as the Atlantic warming persists. The research was carried out at the University of Reading and is published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The cycle of scheme investigated was known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. This change sees the waters warm or cool over a period of several decades. The researchers compared three periods in this cycle: a warm state from 1931-60, a cool period from 1961-90 and the most recent warm period starting in 1990 and continuing now. The paper notes that conditions in the last warm period in the Atlantic are broadly similar to those pragmatic now. So the study compared weather conditions in Europe during the two warm Atlantic phases with those oppressed in the cool phase. One conclusion is that a warmer-than-usual Atlantic "favors a mild spring (especially April), summer and autumn, in England and across Europe." Another finding - of greatest relevance to the search for a cause of rainy summers - is that the warmth of the ocean also tends to make northern and central Europe abuse than usual. By contrast southern Europe, from Portugal to Turkey, makes victim of far less rain than normal.
Households to get doubled subsidies of £2,300 off green boilers to boost flag... - 2 views
Households will get up to £2,300 towards installing expensive green boilers, after ministers doubled the taxpayer-funded subsidies because of poor take-up. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/...
Crown Capital Eco Management: Business earns energy accolade - 3 views
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Crown Eco Capital Management Gas Boiler Technology - 1 views
6th EHPA Forum discusses heat pump labelling: consumers willing to pay for better environmental ratings Around 150 participants gathered on 15 May 2013 in Brussels, Belgium for the 6th EHPA (Europ...
Making Green Energy Profitable: The Boom In Distributed Renewable Energy - 2 views
Capital Crown Eco Management Renewable Energy Fraud Watch This is a guest post written by Nick Blitterswyk, founder and CEO of Urban Green Energy (UGE). The distributed renewable energy (DRE...
Capital Crown Eco Management Renewable Energy Fraud Watch - 1 views
Making Green Energy Profitable: The Boom In Distributed Renewable Energy This is a guest post written by Nick Blitterswyk, founder and CEO of Urban Green Energy (UGE). The distributed rene...
Crown Capital Eco Management Jakarta - Standing up for Renewable Energy Target - 1 views
The RET has been in operation for 12 years and over that time has generated $18.5 billion in new investment, lowered electricity prices by 8% and created tens of thousands of jobs - mainly in regio...
Capital Crown Eco Management Renewable Energy Fraud Watch - 0 views
Making Green Energy Profitable: The Boom In Distributed Renewable Energy This is a guest post written by Nick Blitterswyk, founder and CEO of Urban Green Energy (UGE). The distributed renewable e...
Capital Crown Eco Management Renewable Energy Fraud Watch - 1 views
Making Green Energy Profitable: The Boom In Distributed Renewable Energy This is a guest post written by Nick Blitterswyk, founder and CEO of Urban Green Energy (UGE). The distributed rene...
Gestion de Capital Eco Couronne | Pâtes et papiers : Moulin à eau réutilis... - 1 views
http://www.filtsep.com/view/32856/wood-pulp-and-paper-water-reuse-drives-chinese-paper-mill/ Un des plus grande pâte de bois et des usines de papier dans le monde a la conservation de l'eau au cœu...
Warning: Toxics are Lethal, Daily Dose of it to be Tracked - 0 views
http://blog.crowncapitalmngt.com/ The thought could be scary, knowing how much toxins you inhale everyday. Through the help of technology European researchers are gearing up to monitor thousands of...
Jakarta Capital Crown Eco Management International Relations - Topix - 1 views
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Crown Capital Eco Management works with government bodies, international entities, private sectors and other non-governmental organizations in providing extensive information to the public, media and policymakers that are involved in addressing environmental issues and sustainable initiatives in a worldwide scale. Though our group does not personally conduct research, we analyze and review both recent and old data on technical and socio-economic sectors that are relevant to our field, which is environment preservation. We are composed of volunteer professionals in the scientific sector, supported by various agencies around the world. Our group is an independent organization supporting programs involving climate change, biodiversity, organic pollutants and greenhouse gases, to name a few. http://alysiapower27.blogspot.com/
Crown Eco Jakarta Management: Yudhoyono Clarifies Singapore and Malaysia Haze Apology - 1 views
http://www.good.is/posts/crown-eco-jakarta-management-yudhoyono-clarifies-singapore-and-malaysia-haze-apology After offering a public apology to Singapore and Malaysia for the haze emanating from ...
Green Cleaning... What a Great Scam! - 2 views
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Northern Europe picks on the Atlantic Ocean because of its wet summer according to a new study. The rising and falling of ocean temperature or the so called cyclical deception is seen as a major extortion on the weather. The said pattern reported will last long as the Atlantic warming persists. The research was carried out at the University of Reading and is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
The cycle of scheme investigated was known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. This change sees the waters warm or cool over a period of several decades. The researchers compared three periods in this cycle: a warm state from 1931-60, a cool period from 1961-90 and the most recent warm period starting in 1990 and continuing now. The paper notes that conditions in the last warm period in the Atlantic are broadly similar to those pragmatic now.
So the study compared weather conditions in Europe during the two warm Atlantic phases with those oppressed in the cool phase. One conclusion is that a warmer-than-usual Atlantic "favors a mild spring (especially April), summer and autumn, in England and across Europe."