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SGS and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences (CAAMS) opened a new food testing laboratory in Beijing, China. The partnership of CAAMS with SGS greatly strengthens the relationship with the government of China in the quest to improve food safety.

SGS is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) for facility inspections and certification audits.

Awaiting implementation in July 2011, the new EU 2009/48/EC Toy Safety Directive (TSD) realises the European Parliament demand for greater technical documentation and further responsibilities for toy manufacturers and importers.

In the light of increasing demand from clients and its great expertise, SGS has expanded its detergent performance testing facilities in Aix en Provence in France. SGS is confident it can assist clients with their detergent and home fragrance requirements and new installations of washing machines and dishwashers are on hand to help with the extra work.

CPSIA legislation in the United States requires that both manufacturers and importers adhere to stringent standards when it comes to the safety and regulatory compliance of consumer products, especially those targeted for the children’s market. Testing and certification standards have never been higher, with lead and phthalate levels in particular, being subject to more rigorous regulation.

Dioxins are toxic pollutants that have carcinogenic as well as persistent properties and give cause for concern all across the globe. The recent health scare in Germany has once again focused international attention on the necessary measures required to avoid the contamination of the food chain by dioxins.

As industry and trade globalize, the automotive sector is one of the key industries where manufacturers and suppliers often have to meet a great range of legal requirements. Getting vehicles or vehicle parts approved is a vital precondition for sales all around the world, and there is a great clamor in the industry for synergy and leaner approval procedures. In the EU, increased safety and emission requirements and greater rates of driver assistance braking systems means additional effort is required for homologation/type approvals.

The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act was signed into law in the United States by President Obama in December 2010. Designed to improve nutrition in school and reduce rates of childhood obesity, the law increases access to food for the children of low income families in a country where 30 million children receive food through the school lunch program, 17 million children live in food insecure households and one in three children are overweight or obese. In light of these facts, the law aims to increase the monitoring of the school food program as well as reduce obesity.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is going live this March with its new ‘Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database. The Final Interpretative Rule has been published for database maintenance, along with comments from the public and responses from the CPSC.

As the electro mobility domain comes closer to becoming a sustainable mobility solution, SGS-TÜV GmbH – company of the SGS group and TÜV Saarland e.V., has developed a service portfolio that enables it to support all the domains of electro mobility (http://www.sgstuev.de/en/business-lines/automotive/electronic-mobility.html) and functional safety (http://www.sgstuev.de/en/business-lines/automotive/functional-safety.html) as an accredited partner. This new spectrum of services has been recently showcased by SGS-TÜV GmbH at eCarTec 2010, the trade fair that brings together all technologies and developments in the e-mobility sector.