The UK government will launch a consultation regarding plans to provide calorie labelling on alcoholic beverages to tackle obesity.
An expert in public health has called for the Taoiseach Micheál Martin to urgently introduce a minimum unit pricing on alcohol, in a bid to deter house parties.
INDIA — Ashika Capital Limited, a future focused investment banking firm, facilitated a one-of-a-kind deal for Independence Brewing Company (IBC), one of the largest & oldest microbreweries in India, with parent company Indus Brew LLC located in the US.
UNITED KINGDOM - One in five people aged over 55 years of age admit to feeling peer pressured into drinking more alcohol than they otherwise would, a study has found.
It seems un-Australian, but has been going on for decades - every six months the amount of tax we pay for beer goes up. That means on August 3 it will be going up again, despite calls from the Brewers Association of Australia and Australian Hotels Association to freeze the rate because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Britons have taken full advantage of their first chance in more than three months to have a pint at a pub. Dubbed Super Saturday, restaurants, bars and hairdressers welcomed customers, but it was the vast number of people filling the streets after a few drinks that had some authorities concerned.
The food and beverage regulator has revised the wording of pregnancy warnings on alcohol bottles but rejected arguments that adding red lettering would impose an unreasonable cost on the industry.
Nunavik police seized a shipment of bootlegged alcohol in Puvirnituq this week. The Kativik Regional Police Force said it received a tip about a suspected shipment of multiple parcels that recently arrived in the Hudson coast community.
According to the new WHO/Europe report, “Alcohol pricing in the WHO European Region”, increasing the prices that consumers pay for alcohol is one of the most cost-effective tools available for policy-makers looking to reduce alcohol consumption and associated harm.
The "Protection of Workers Bill" has been passed at Stage 1 by Holyrood's Economy committee. Staff who sell age restricted goods are deemed to have have a "special role in upholding the law, but the committee heard in evidence that this can sometimes trigger violence and abuse.