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Children's Rain Ponchos with Drawstrings Recalled by Daiso Due to Strangulation Hazard
The garments have a drawstring through the hood, posing a strangulation hazard to children. In February 1996, CPSC issued guidelines to help prevent children from strangling or getting entangled on the neck and waist drawstrings in upper garments.
CPSC.gov  –  2 hours, 9 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
Wiseman sees 'unparalleled' price pressures
Dairy group warns of £8.5m hit to profits from higher costs of plastics for milk bottles and of fuel, utilities and wages, the delay in passing these on to retailers in higher prices, as well as lower prices for bulk cream
Financial Times  –  6 hours, 50 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
EU using 'banned' poultry cleaning
Documents show that European poultry producers use a chlorine solution on exported chicken, a method that has led to a de facto bar on US sales in the EU for 11 years
Financial Times  –  12 hours, 28 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
SNCF eyes Italian freight stake
French state railway looks at potential purchase of up to 49 per cent of Ferrovie Nord Cargo as part of a drive to expand abroad
Financial Times  –  16 hours, 34 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
Japan warned on governance
The country must improve its standards of corporate governance to halt sliding investor confidence, a group of the world's most influential institutional investors will warn this week
Financial Times  –  16 hours, 35 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
SocGen braced for inquiry results
France's second-biggest bank is set to be severely criticised in an independent report into the €50bn ($77bn) rogue trading scandal
Financial Times  –  17 hours, 3 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
AIG chief faces mounting pressure
In the wake of a $7.8bn first-quarter loss, the pressure is rising for Martin Sullivan to step aside and for a successor to consider breaking the company up
Financial Times  –  19 hours, 19 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
KDDI slips in fight for Japanese market
Decline of 188,700 users is likely to be a one-off due to the company ending its slower 'Tu-ka' service on April 1. Main high-speed service still adding subscribers
Financial Times  –  19 hours, 38 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
Vodafone denies MTN interest
UK group insists it has no plans to make a bid for the African operator, following Bharti Airtel's informal offer for the Johannesburg-listed company
Financial Times  –  20 hours, 33 minutes ago  ¦  comment?
Cultural swing suits Close Bros
With credit hard to obtain elsewhere, customers are returning to Close Brothers' specialty lending division and its corporate finance division expects its loan book to swell
Financial Times  –  21 hours, 7 minutes ago  ¦  comment?