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02/11/07		Consumer Testing		SGS Accreditation of Functional Testing by Nano-tex Nowadays, consumers’ desire on garments is not simply ‘wearing apparel’, and the proliferation of dual- and multi-purpose apparel in the marketplace indicates that clothing manufacturers are paying high attention on the performance fabrics. Nanotechnology is believed to incorporate functional enhancements into every area of the fabric. The nano-scale molecules can effectively attach to fabrics and this can eventually improve the performance, care and durability of apparel and interior furnishing while maintaining or improving the original comfort, feel and appearance.
02/11/07		Consumer Testing		SGS Hong Kong accredited by DAP and Germany SGS Hong Kong has successfully gone through the DAP (ISO/IEC 17025) assessment on 5th and 6th July 2007 and officially obtained the accreditation on 16th September 2007.
02/11/07		Consumer Testing		Irresistible Offer for Nutrition Information Labels for Prepackaged Food in Hong Kong In early October 2007, the Hong Kong Government announced that Hong Kong would follow Australia and New Zealand on the requirement of nutrition information labels on prepackaged food. The Government introduced a food composition analysis to include energy plus nine nutrients (or 9+1) on nutrition labels in the earlier proposal but is now considering either to change to seven (energy plus 6 nutrients or 6+1) or eight (energy plus 7 nutrients or 7+1), skipping cholesterol, dietary fiber and calcium. The final proposal will be tabled at the Legislative Council for approval at year end.
16/10/07		Consumer Testing		“Nano” Concerns in Your Products “Nanotechnology” is about engineering materials at the scale of atoms and molecules. “Nano” is measurement unit with 10-9. “Nanoparticle” is the description of the particle with one or more dimensions with the range of 1~100nm. For the material containing physical or chemically distinguishable components and at least one of its physical dimensions being less than 100nm, it can be expressed as “nanostructured material”.
24/09/07		Consumer Testing		New Regulation of Toy Exports from China now Enforced
24/09/07		Consumer Testing		SGS Presents: Softlines Forum 2007 ‘Softlines Forum’ is the foremost industrial event that gathers the elites of business leader, policy makers and scholars from academics and the industry to address issues impacting the future growth and development of the textiles and apparel industry.
24/09/07		Consumer Testing		New GS Mark Unveiled SGS is proud to launch the new SGS GS mark
17/09/07		Life Science		New ASEAN Harmonized Cosmetic Regulatory Scheme will be effective The ASEAN Harmonized Cosmetic Regulatory Scheme is the agreed one standard scheme for regulating cosmetic products among ASEAN countries. It aims to remove technical barriers by harmonizing regulatory and technical requirements under ASEAN Cosmetics Directive and to govern the product safety.
13/09/07		Life Science		FINAL CALL! GMP Implementation in Dietary Supplement Industry On 22 June 2007, FDA finally announced the rule of establishing current Good Manufacturing Practice requirements (cGMPs) for Dietary Supplements.
10/09/07		Life Science		Extension of HOKLAS Accreditations We are pleased to notify our extension of accreditation awarded by the Hong Kong Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (HOKLAS) of the Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) under Registration No. 009. While keeping up with the existing capabilities, our testing scope is expanding to assay testing for certain kinds of multi-vitamins supplements, aspirin tablets, and cosmetic products.
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