The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said Monday, June 28, that ready-to-eat food products for children aged one to five years old have been developed from abundant fresh produce in Davao region to address undernutrition among children during disasters. (Screenshot from DOST-PCHRD...
The Department of Trade and Industry-Bureau of Philippine Standards (DTI-BPS) has reactivated its Technical Committee (TC 45) on Plastics and Plastic Products primarily in anticipation of House Bill No. 9147 mandating the DTI-BPS to develop and promulgate the appropriate Philippine National...
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary Benny Antiporda has acknowledged the delays in the banning of items on the non-environmentally acceptable products (NEAP) list, but insisted that authorities were "doing their best". DENR Undersecretary Benny Antiporda...
The country's tariff rates on imported rice and pork products will be adjusted for a year in a bid to boost food supply and keep prices affordable, Malacañang announced Saturday. President Rodrigo Duterte skims through a document as he presides over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on...
Brace for more imported pork products in the country. After declaring a state of calamity over the African Swine Fever outbreak, President Duterte has approved the higher import quota for pork products to help ensure adequate and affordable food in the country. President Rodrigo Duterte (File...
SECRETARY RAMON M. LOPEZ Department of Trade and Industry (Photo by Mr. Mark Ches Ang) While there’s a growing awareness of the global competitiveness of Filipino products, there are still some Pinoys that are biased towards imported products because they think locally-made goods are not “high...
Find out what they are expecting in this global pandemic CONSCIOUS BEAUTY Consumers nowadays do not simply look at the personal effects of the beauty products but they also check how these will affect the environment The Covid-19 threat to our health has ignited the call for brand transparency and...
Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill With almost a year in lockdown, it is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced most businesses to reduce their spending, if not completely reduce their workforce or halt their...
The Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) has clarified that it was not anti-environment and was not endorsing deforestation. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DOST-FPRDI Director Romulo T. Aggangan lamented that because of its name, the...
Various Filipino food products are now available in 60 mainstream retail stores in Australia on growing demand not just from the Filipino communities, but from the increasingly adventurous Australian mainstream consumers, the Philippine Trade and Investment Centre (PTIC) in Sydney reported. PTIC...
Clearex opens its first manufacturing plant in Binan, Laguna; welcomes more distributors for its growing product users and loyal clientele. Clearex, a wholly-owned Filipino company, maker of top-quality cleaning products, recently inaugurated its first manufacturing plant in Binan, Laguna, to cater...
It seems like a new year, new skin tone for Kapuso star Derek Ramsay. Ramsay is all over the Internet for his striking skin tone change as he posed for a promotional photo for his new endorsement of LLIC beauty products uploaded on Instagram recently. While Ramsay acknowledged he is really...
