Law & Politics

Eight out of 11 slime products tested by Which? discovered to contain unsafe levels of the chemical boron; H Grossmans' Goopy Slime deemed among safest slime on the market.

Developed by CEN/TC 52, the revisions are expected to be cited in the Official Journal of the European Union over the summer.

The firm has said that while one million infringement notices may seem like an extraordinary number, it represents only a fraction of the total infringing products pushed by criminal networks on platforms like Amazon and eBay.

According to the firm that now boasts a 100 per cent degradable product portfolio, the use of cheap plastic toys on the cover of children’s magazines are not only bad for the environment, but have very little play value.

The group said that the retail industry “shoulders far more than its fair share” of rates bills and that the tax was “leading to store closures.”

The firm has responded to calls from groups like Authors4Oceans for all UK kids' magazine publishers to end the 'toy tat' giveaways generating 3,000 tonnes of landfill a year.

This is the latest in ongoing discussions around behaviour and levels of representation within the increasingly popular tabeltop gaming community.

The US wants China to stop practices that allegedly encourage transfer of intellectual property - design and product ideas - to Chinese companies, such as requirements that foreign firms share ownership with local partners to access the Chinese market.

In place of legislation to mirror France, Hancock has suggested that society needs time to become educated on how to implement the use of technology better.

The International Trademark Association issued a review yesterday highlighting that rising IP theft and pirating will see the value increase from the $1.3 trillion in 2013 to nearly $3 trillion in the next four years.