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According to FoodManufacture.co.uk, the hypothetical ruling from the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) is significant, given that requests for rulings that yield a positive result usually lead to the licensing of foodstuffs for sale within the UK. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said its board will meet in December to discuss the committee’s conclusions, before advising ministers. The expo at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre is expected to attract over 3,000 decision makers from more than 25 countries are expected to attend, primarily from across the Mena region. A joint venture of US firm Parsons and France’s Systra has been awarded a project management consultancy contract for the network while Parsons Brinckerhoff, a unit of UK’s Balfour Beatty, was awarded a preliminary engineering contract for phases one and two of the project, Richard Bowker was quoted saying. Calling it a “voluntary guideline contract programme” for 2011-12, the TSA recommended rate increases of US$400 per (NZD$521) 40-foot container (FEU) for cargo moving to the U.S. West Coast and $600 per FEU for all other cargo. Sidel estimates consumption of PET in beer applications globally will increase by 11% annually to 2012, rising to 15% a year from 2012 to 2016. Shanghai Port handled about 24 million TEU from January to October, surpassing Singapore to be the largest port in the world for three consecutive months in a raw, according to the Shipping Gazette citing figures from the Statistical Bureau of Shanghai.