Sentences with phrase «with voluntary industry»

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In the U.S., we removed full - calorie sodas during the school day and replaced them with a range of low - and no - calorie, smaller - portion choices as part of our industry's voluntary School Beverage Guidelines.

It has given the alcohol industry one year to develop its own voluntary initiatives — if at the end of that period it is dissatisfied with the industry's measures, it will regulate.

It is being implemented from June 2014 on a voluntary basis by the food industry over the next five years, with a review of progress after two years.

The two supermarket chains have spent six months negotiating a voluntary code of conduct with the grocery sector and hope to reach an agreement in the next few weeks, avoiding a mandatory code and the appointment of an industry ombudsman.

Incorporating triple bottom - line sustainability principles across all aspects of their business, the company deployed solar arrays at eight wineries and collaborated with Tesla to reduce energy demand and increase grid reliability, utilized industry - first water conservation technologies, introduced human resource initiatives to improve employees» well - being, paid a price premium for certified sustainable winegrapes and led voluntary drought initiatives.

The industry has engaged with the AMA, Governments and regulators around the country informing them of the voluntary marketing and promotion restrictions it has implemented over and above existing legislation.

This voluntary food, flavors and fragrances industries program engages with vanilla exporters, producers, sector organizations and public authorities worldwide to progress issues of governance, traceability, labor rights and technical assistance to grower groups.

The industry has shown a responsible approach to be part of any solution framework through voluntary front of pack labelling, reducing serving sizes, reformulating to low or no calories, a voluntary ban on marketing to kids under 12 and compliance with school canteen guidelines.

«The customer comes first in our business, and this voluntary industry initiative provides shoppers with clear, easily understood date label information, so our customers can be confident in the product's quality and safety,» said Joe Colalillo, president of ShopRite of Hunterdon County, Inc. and chairman and CEO of Wakefern Food Corp. «Food retailers and manufacturers are working towards the common goal of bringing consistency and greater clarity in product date label messaging.

Fonterra said it had moved to simplify contracts and signed the voluntary Dairy Industry Code of Conduct as part of changes in line with the report.

In addition to abiding by strict food laws, the industry adheres to the following voluntary guidelines as part of the Industry Commitments3: • Energy Drinks are not made available in primary nor secondary schools • Marketing and advertising activities of energy drinks are not directed at children • No promotional activities are undertaken to encourage excessive consumption of energy drinks • Labels of energy drinks do not promote the mixing of energy drinks with any other bindustry adheres to the following voluntary guidelines as part of the Industry Commitments3: • Energy Drinks are not made available in primary nor secondary schools • Marketing and advertising activities of energy drinks are not directed at children • No promotional activities are undertaken to encourage excessive consumption of energy drinks • Labels of energy drinks do not promote the mixing of energy drinks with any other bIndustry Commitments3: • Energy Drinks are not made available in primary nor secondary schools • Marketing and advertising activities of energy drinks are not directed at children • No promotional activities are undertaken to encourage excessive consumption of energy drinks • Labels of energy drinks do not promote the mixing of energy drinks with any other beverage.

Further Information The effectiveness of Food and Drink industry's endeavours to improve the nutritional value of many products continues to be debated, along with the value of the voluntary Public Health Responsibility Deal and the need for government regulation.

Other industries such as the grain, horticulture or non-exporting animal product industries use the NRS on a voluntary basis in order to demonstrate compliance with state food safety obligations and / or importing country requirements.

The strategy includes a voluntary agreement with the bakery industry to reduce sodium in bread products.

Implementation of the Plan began in 2012, and included voluntary agreements with the food industry to reduce salt content in processed food.

The Commission has failed to tackle the issue of FUF advertising and now has no credible strategy for curbing the growth in this new market — except dialogue with the industry about voluntary self - regulatory options.

The UK relied on weak voluntary agreements with industry.

Youth sport marketing is a key part of food and beverage marketing strategies, and voluntary industry guidelines may actually encourage food and beverage companies to associate those products with health and fitness activities such as youth sport (61).

In particular, ASTM International, an organization that works with industry and regulators to develop voluntary standards for everything from concrete to cribs, is finalizing sling safety standards.

The industry has banded together under the auspices of the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association to establish voluntary safety standards for baby products that have been coupled with mandatory and voluntary standards of the CPSC.

The Commission has provided no credible strategy for protecting child health and curbing the growth in this new category of products — except dialogue with the industry about voluntary self - regulatory options.

The whole high chair industry self - polices itself with voluntary safety features like crotch posts and harnesses.

He says voluntary agreements with industry didn't work.

The initiative will work with police, local authorities, prison and probation staff, the NHS, voluntary organisations, alcohol industry, business community, media and local communities, to create an environment which «actively promotes» sensible drinking.

These include: · Restricting trade hours of on - licence venues to limit the availability of alcohol in the early hours of the morning · Enhancing community involvement, better facilitating the engagement of local residents with licensing systems · Adding / prioritising public health and / or harm minimisation objectives in alcohol legislation · Restricting the sales of high risk products in areas of concern; and · Deprioritising government support for industry voluntary schemes in place of policies supported by evidence.

However, in December 2011, because no European agreement had been reached on enforcing the ban on battery cages, the British government announced that it had instead been working closely with the domestic egg industry, processors, food manufacturers, the food service sector and retailers to reach «a voluntary consensus» not to sell or use battery - farmed eggs and help British consumers to avoid buying them unwittingly.

As you would expect from a government department seeking to effect public health change through a voluntary deal with industry, a wide group of officials have many different meetings with a vast range of stakeholders, and we utterly reject the allegation of anything untoward in the small proportion of those that took place with the alcohol industry.

Most have relied solely on voluntary moves by the food industry, with no evidence of their effectiveness.

But they caution: «While a voluntary target based approach works to encourage industry reductions, the targets need to be coupled with the forceful government or quasi-government agency to ensure that all sectors of the food industry are aware of the targets and reducing salt in their products to meet [them].»

Anja Kollmuss, a staff scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute and the author of two recent industry reports, says that while problems exist, voluntary offsets «have helped to get some good projects off the ground?

The JCVI team concludes that the Guidance has been reasonably successful in its first five years with a large majority of the industry in voluntary compliance.

These voluntary skill standards will be developed by industry in full partnership with education, labor, and community - based organizations, and will be flexible, portable, and continuously updated and improved.

«The record number of voluntary recalls initiated by automakers last year is also very good news, and shows that we can work cooperatively with industry to protect consumers.»

But one of the defining factors in any picture of the publishing business has been that it's an industry based on the voluntary submission of its fundamental product, the content, by people it does not know (until they turn up with a manuscript) and do not employ (until they get into a contractual arrangement).

If you instead believe our pension issues lie elsewhere, then a voluntary CPP is less like pension reform and more like picking a fight with the insurance industry.

As part of our effort to work with industry leaders on best practices, PIJAC and small animal care experts launched Small Animal Care voluntary standards.

This organization, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration, state officials and the animal feed industry, develops model regulations for pet foods, which are voluntary unless encoded in state laws.

WASHINGTON — A voluntary pet groomer certification program has been proposed by California lawmakers in an attempt to regulate an industry with existing expert - developed training and certification programs.

Because participating with the AAHA Standards and the Accreditation Program is voluntary, practices that earn AAHA certification have enough confidence in the level of their care to welcome measurement from an outside organization against the most rigorous published standards in the industry.

With the support of dog breeders, pet industry representatives, animal health and welfare experts, and other key stakeholders, the researchers are developing and testing voluntary standards for the care and well - being of dogs in commercial breeding facilities.

«Attempts to manage the wind industry with voluntary as opposed to mandatory permitting guidelines are clearly not working.

The IGCC essentially takes voluntary rating systems such as LEED and Green Globe together with industry best practices and crafts it into regulations aimed at building energy and sustainability performance.

The Government's various voluntary greenhouse programs with industry also fit the criteria of publicity stunts with no real effect.

Measures proposed to achieve these targets include the development of voluntary commitments (VC's) and voluntary agreements (VA's) with industry.

Because the Federal government seems to be pretending that «no one could have seen this coming,» you might wonder, as we do «What is the waste management industry doing on a voluntary basis» to cope with the coming e-waste deluge?

By the ACF's figures, the average Aussie driver could save $ 1,000 a year, if they drove a car that managed a fuel efficiency standard of 6.8 L / 100 km [34.6 miles / gallon (US)-RSB- but they observe that only one Australian manufactured car model had an efficiency of less than 10L / 100 km [23.5 miles / gallon (US)-RSB- in 2006, so they don't hold out much hope for voluntary agreements with the car industry as likely to bear much fruit.

In India, WRI has worked since 2013 with The Energy and Resources Institute and the Confederation of Indian Industry to convene and support the India GHG Program (IGHGP), a voluntary industry - led partnership of over 50 large companies committed to measuring and managing their GHG emIndustry to convene and support the India GHG Program (IGHGP), a voluntary industry - led partnership of over 50 large companies committed to measuring and managing their GHG emindustry - led partnership of over 50 large companies committed to measuring and managing their GHG emissions.

As some groups push for additional EPA and Bureau of Land Management methane rules, claiming that voluntary efforts to reduce emissions haven't worked, it's clear that a combination of industry actions in concert with existing regulation have worked — and that additional regulation isn't needed.

Several voluntary industry efforts to address these sources are underway, including EPA's plans to expand on the successful Natural Gas STAR Program by launching a new partnership in collaboration with key stakeholders later in 2015.

Hence, if the European legislator sets the legal so - called «essential requirements», which all economic operators have to meet — whether they are using harmonised standards or not — to ensure free circulation of their products on the Single Market, it leaves to CEN, CENELEC or ETSI (i.e. the recognised European standardization organizations (ESOs)-RRB- to develop voluntary standards that can give technical solutions, accepted by the relevant industry, to ensure compliance with these essential requirements.