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  • MIL-OSI Economics: Copilot Actions now available in Labs + Copilot with Instacart

    Source: Microsoft

    Headline: Copilot Actions now available in Labs + Copilot with Instacart

    Welcome to Microsoft’s Copilot Release Notes. Here we’ll provide regular updates on what’s happening with Copilot, from new features to firmware updates and more. Try Copilot Actions — Now in Copilot Labs  Let Copilot lend you a hand with everyday web tasks. Copilot Actions is a new experimental feature available to Copilot Pro users in

    Welcome to Microsoft’s Copilot Release Notes. Here we’ll provide regular updates on what’s happening with Copilot, from new features to firmware updates and more.

    Try Copilot Actions — Now in Copilot Labs 

    Let Copilot lend you a hand with everyday web tasks. Copilot Actions is a new experimental feature available to Copilot Pro users in the U.S., designed to help you get things done — not just find answers. 

    With simple chat prompts, you can ask Copilot to: 

    • Book a hotel 
    • Make a dinner reservation 
    • Order flowers 
    • Find a flight 
    • Schedule a tour 

    …and much more — all from your browser. 

    Copilot works behind the scenes to complete tasks on your behalf, and you stay in control every step of the way. You can pause, stop, edit, or take over at any time. 

    Available now in Copilot Labs on any modern browser. 

    Example prompts to try: 

    • “Order me a bouquet of flowers using 1800Flowers.com” 
    • “Book me a hotel room on Hotels.com for this weekend” 
    • “Make a dinner reservation for two at an Italian restaurant on OpenTable.com” 

    Recipes and Instacart  

    Getting all your ingredients ready just got even easier on Copilot with Instacart. With Recipe cards, you can now directly purchase ingredients in Copilot. Simply select “Shop Ingredients on Instacart” while using Copilot on iOS, Android, the Mac app, or Copilot.com. 

    The Recipe feature is enabled for all users — no sign-in required — and is available across all Copilot markets, making it effortless to find inspiration and shop for ingredients seamlessly. Currently, the Instacart Buy option is only available in the U.S., but it will be extending to Canada soon! 

    MIL OSI Economics –

  • MIL-OSI Global: For both artists and scientists, slow looking allows surprising connections to surface

    Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Amanda Bongers, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Education Research, Queen’s University, Ontario

    Scientists need skills in visual analysis and critical thinking, but these skills aren’t being taught or practised nearly enough in our university classrooms.

    The fast pace and complex visuals in chemistry lectures can be overwhelming.
    (Lee Nachtigal/Flickr), CC BY

    One reason why science is hard to learn is because it relies on visuals and simulations for things we cannot see with the naked eye. In topics like chemistry, students struggle to translate complicated symbols to the atoms and molecules they are meant to represent.

    Surprisingly, most university chemistry classrooms are not helping students with these tasks. Students spend lectures passively viewing slides packed with images without engaging with them or generating their own. Relying on innate ability, rather than teaching visual thinking and analysis skills, leaves many students feeling lost in the symbols and resorting to arduous and unproductive memorization tactics.

    What can we do to help students analyze and learn from scientific visuals? Fortunately, we can look to the arts for inspiration. There are parallels between the skills learned in art history and those needed in science classrooms.

    Developing a trained eye

    Feeling baffled by a work of art is similar to the experience of many chemistry learners. In both scenarios, viewers might ask themselves: What am I looking at, where should I look and what does it mean?

    And while a portrait or landscape may seem straightforward in its message, these works of art are filled with information and messages hidden to the untrained eye.

    The longer a viewer takes to look at each image, the more information can be uncovered, and the viewer can ask more questions and explore further.

    For example, in the 18th-century painting Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop by Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch, looking beyond the flowers painted in full bloom reveals a swarm of insects, which art historians regard in a wider context of spiritual meditations upon mortality.

    Did you notice the insects in ‘Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop?’
    (Rijksmuseum)

    The field of art history is dedicated to exploring works of art, and emphasizes visual analysis and critical thinking skills. When an art historian studies a work of art, they explore what information may be contained within the work, why it was presented in that manner and what this means in a broader context.



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    Mike Pence’s fly: From Renaissance portraits to Salvador Dalí, artists used flies to make a point about appearances

    Process of looking, asking questions

    This process of looking and asking questions about what you are looking at is needed at all levels of science, and is a useful general skill.

    The non-profit organization Visual Thinking Strategies has created resources and programs to support educators, from kindergarten to high school, in using art for discussion in their classrooms.

    These discussions about art help young learners develop skills for reasoning, communicating and coping with uncertainty. Another resource, “Thinking Routines” from Harvard’s Project Zero, includes more suggestions for leading engagement with art and objects to help students cultivate observation, interpretation and questioning.

    Critical viewing means slowing down

    Such approaches have also been embraced in medical education, where medical students learn critical viewing through close-looking activities with art, and explore themes of empathy, power and care.

    Viewing art can help teach people critical viewing, a skill essential for interpreting medical imaging.
    (Shutterstock)

    Medical humanities programs also help young professionals to respond to ambiguity. Learning how to analyze art changes how people describe medical images, such as photos of clinical interactions, and has been shown to improve their empathy scores.

    The skills needed for visual analysis of art works require us to slow down and let our eyes wander and brains think. Slow and deep looking involves taking four or five minutes to silently view a work of art, allowing surprising details and connections to surface. Students training in medical imaging in the field of radiology can learn this slow and critical viewing process by interacting with art.

    Students in classrooms

    Now imagine the difference between a leisurely setting like a gallery to a classroom, with the pressure to listen, look, copy and learn from visuals and prepare for exams.

    How long are students spending analyzing these complex chemistry diagrams? Research that colleagues and I conducted suggests very little.

    When we observed chemistry classrooms, we found that students either passively viewed images while the instructor discussed them, or copied visuals as the instructor drew them. In both cases, they are not engaging with the visuals or generating their own.

    When teaching chemistry, Amanda, the lead author of this story, has seen students feel pressure to find a “correct” answer quickly when solving chemistry problems, causing them to overlook important but less obvious information.

    Visual analysis in chemistry education

    Our team of artists, art historians, arts educators, chemistry teachers and students is working to bring arts-inspired visual analysis into university chemistry classrooms.

    Through mock lectures followed by in-depth discussions, our preliminary research has found intersections between the practices and teachings of the visual arts skills and the skills needed for chemistry education, and we’ve designed activities for teaching students these skills.

    A focus group with university science educators helped us refine the activities to work for educators’ classrooms and goals. Through this process, we’ve identified new ways of thinking about and engaging with visuals and as our research evolves, so may these activities.

    Example of a visual analysis activity pairing a work of art with a chemistry visual. Left: ‘Cubist Study of a Head’ by Elemér de Kóródy, 1913 (The Met). Right: Analysis of a cycloaddition reaction (Author provided).

    Many students in university science classrooms will not pursue a traditional career in science, and their programs rarely lead to a specific job, yet visual thinking skills are essential in the wide skill sets needed for their future careers.

    Visual analysis and critical thinking are becoming even more important in daily life now with the rise of AI-generated images and videos.

    Developing skills to slow down and look

    Integrating the arts into other disciplines can support critical thinking and introduce learners to new perspectives. We argue that the arts can help science students develop essential visual analysis skills by teaching them to slow down and simply look.

    “Thinking like a scientist” has come to mean asking questions about what you see, but this could easily be framed as thinking like an art historian:

    1. Look closely for details;

    2. Consider details together and in context (for example, by asking: “Who created this and why?”);

    3. Recognize the need for broad technical and fundamental knowledge to see the less obvious, and;

    4. Accept uncertainty. There may be more than one answer, and we may never know for sure!

    Amanda Bongers receives funding from SSHRC and NSERC.

    Madeleine Dempster receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

    – ref. For both artists and scientists, slow looking allows surprising connections to surface – https://theconversation.com/for-both-artists-and-scientists-slow-looking-allows-surprising-connections-to-surface-252355

    MIL OSI – Global Reports –

  • MIL-OSI Economics: Apple Arcade welcomes nine new games

    Source: Apple

    Headline: Apple Arcade welcomes nine new games

    June 5, 2025

    UPDATE

    Apple Arcade welcomes nine new games

    UNO: Arcade Edition is a new take on the global card game phenomenon, and Angry Birds Bounce is an exciting addition to the legendary mobile franchise

    Exciting new additions are expanding Apple Arcade’s dynamic catalog of more than 200 games, all without ads or in-app purchases. Today, a new take on Mattel’s classic card game UNO is available on the service with UNO: Arcade Edition. The game features three modes where fans can enjoy solo matches with classic UNO rules in Single Player, play with others in Quick Match, or turn up the heat in Custom Games that feature special twists like Wild Swap Hands and Color Showdown. Also released today are: WHAT THE CAR? for Apple Vision Pro, a spatial adaption of the 2024 D.I.C.E. Awards’ Mobile Game of the Year; physics-based racing game LEGO Hill Climb Adventures+; wholesome interactive adventure Lost in Play+; and hit 3D arcade game Helix Jump+.

    Next month, four fun games bring even more reason to jump in and play. Launching exclusively on Apple Arcade on July 3, Angry Birds Bounce is a new take on one of the most iconic mobile game series of all time with over 5 billion lifetime downloads. The new game blends Angry Birds’ classic slingshot gameplay with arcade-style brick-breaker mechanics, creating an all-new adventure full of chaotic charm and action-packed fun.

    “Angry Birds Bounce reinvents the classic Angry Birds formula with a vertical twist, refreshing the gameplay while staying true to the brand’s DNA,” said Bryan Cook, Angry Birds Bounce game lead at Rovio. “We are thrilled to bring this new experience exclusively to Apple Arcade, featuring the largest roster of Angry Birds characters ever, and we can’t wait to see our players’ reactions to this new title.”

    Three more popular games will also be added from the App Store on July 3: Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+, the most recent entry in the acclaimed tower defense franchise; Suika Game+, a delightful fruit-merging puzzle game; and Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets+, which transforms Crayola’s favorite kids’ pet toys into digital companions.

    Angry Birds Bounce by Rovio
    Join Red, Chuck, Bomb, and the rest of the gang on a brand-new adventure. Angry Birds Bounce combines the classic charm of Angry Birds with an innovative arcade brick-breaker twist. When the pigs take over their islands, the birds must bounce back — literally — combining into powerful flocks and launching themselves to defeat an army of piggies and reclaim their home. With strategic rogue-lite gameplay, each level is a new challenge where players will master precision shots, unlock exciting power-ups, and build unique combos during each run.

    Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+ by Ironhide Game Studio
    The latest game in the award-winning tower defense saga builds upon the lightning-paced and captivating gameplay of its predecessors, but raises the stakes with more power, chaos, and strategy than ever before. For the first time in the series, players can command two heroes in each stage. With 15 epic heroes to choose from, 17 unique towers, 32 upgradable characters, 22 detailed campaign stages, and over 40 types of enemies, Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+ offers thrilling gameplay, the signature humor that fans love, and endless replay. The game includes all DLCs and is playable across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

    Suika Game+ by XGIMI
    The viral puzzle game where players drop fruits into a box is coming to Apple Arcade. The goal of Suika Game – Aladdin X+ is to combine matching fruits into bigger creations, culminating into the ultimate fruit: a watermelon. The game’s energetic physics add a fun challenge. When dropping and merging bouncing fruits, players must strategically keep them from overflowing out of the box. They will compete with other players around the world and aim for the top of the daily, monthly, or all-time leaderboards.

    Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets+ by Red Games Co.
    Creativity meets responsibility as players immerse themselves in vibrant 3D worlds to color, care, and play with over 90 adorable digital pets. Inspired by the top-selling Crayola toy, this game lets young players nurture empathy and responsibility through interactive pet care activities like grooming, feeding, and washing, while also boosting attention and memory skills with detail-oriented play. With endless creative fun using digital Crayola art tools and imaginative journeys across colorful 3D environments, Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets+ transforms the traditional pet toy into an engaging digital experience.

    In addition to new games, players can also look forward to brand-new updates to their favorite Arcade games, playable across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro.

    • Fruit Ninja Classic+ by Halfbrick Studios: On June 19, Bluey takes over Fruit Ninja Classic+ in this limited-time, Apple Arcade-exclusive crossover event. Featuring special Bluey-themed wands, wand powers, dojos, and many easter eggs, players of all ages will slice fruits and unlock exclusive rewards.
    • Bloons TD 6+ by Ninja Kiwi: On June 19, the popular tower defense game adds the all-new Desperado monkey tower, map, and legend.
    • WHAT THE CLASH? by Triband: On June 26, 50 new golf mini-games, cosmetics, missions, and achievements based on Triband’s other Arcade hit title, WHAT THE GOLF?, are introduced to the game.

    This month also brings updates to highly rated games like Sonic Dream Team, Crayola Create and Play+, Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE, Tomb of the Mask+, Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Edition, Asphalt 8: Airborne+, and more.

    Pricing and Availability

    • Apple Arcade is available for $6.99 (U.S.) per month with a one-month free trial. Customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV receive three months of Apple Arcade for free.1
    • Apple Arcade is part of Apple One’s Individual ($19.95 U.S.), Family ($25.95 U.S.), and Premier ($37.95 U.S.) monthly plans, with a one-month free trial.2
    • Arcade Originals are playable across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. App Store Greats are available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro.
    • An Apple Arcade subscription gives a family of up to six unlimited access to all the games in its catalog.
    • Availability for the 200+ games across devices varies based on hardware and software compatibility. Some content may not be available in all areas.
    1. This offer is available to new subscribers only. One subscription covers one Family Sharing group. The offer is good for three months after eligible device activation. The plan automatically renews until cancelled. Restrictions and other terms apply.
    2. The Apple One free trial includes only services that are not currently used through a free trial or a subscription. The plan automatically renews after the trial until cancelled. Restrictions and other terms apply.

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    MIL OSI Economics –

  • MIL-OSI USA: Tgd Cuts, LLC Initiated Voluntary Recall of Cucumber from Bedner Growers Inc., Which Had the Potential to Be Contaminated with Salmonella

    Source: US Department of Health and Human Services – 3

    Summary

    Company Announcement Date:
    June 04, 2025
    FDA Publish Date:
    June 04, 2025
    Product Type:
    Food & Beverages
    Reason for Announcement:

    Recall Reason Description
    Potential to be contaminated with Salmonella

    Company Name:
    TGD Cuts, LLC.
    Brand Name:

    Brand Name(s)
    Multiple brands

    Product Description:

    Product Description
    Fresh cucumbers and salsa and salads containing fresh cucumbers

    Company Announcement
    TGD Cuts, LLC of Jessup, MD has initiated a voluntary recall of the specific tub and tray items listed below because they contained cucumber from Bedner Growers Inc., which had the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
    Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometime fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare instances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.
    This recall includes the tub and tray items listed below with use by dates ranging from 5/20/2025 – 5/28/2025. Products were distributed to retail and foodservice locations in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and North Carolina. No other products were affected.
    There have been no reported illnesses to date associated with the affected items. These products are beyond their usable shelf life and are no longer expected to be in commerce.
    TGD Cuts, LLC takes the safety and integrity of the products it sells seriously. If customers have product affected by this voluntary recall, they should discard it immediately or return it to their local store for a full refund.
    Consumers with questions may contact the company at (410)-799-5700 M-F between the hours of 6:30am-3:00pm EST.
    TGD Cuts, LLC Contact Information mediarelations@classproduce.com(410)-799-5700Monday thru Friday 6:30am–3:00pm EST
    Attention Customer Care
    Jennifer Henderson-AdamsM-F 6:30am-2:00pmExt. #4305
    Stephanie LyonsM-F 7:30am-3:00pmExt. #4308

    Item
    UPC
    Use By/Julian Date Start
    Use By/Juliant Date End

    Salsa, Hot 6/12 oz.
    840219170534
    5/25/2025
    5/25/2025

    Salsa, Mild 6/12oz.
    840219170541
    5/24/2025
    5/25/2025

    Salsa, Mild 5lb.
    840219140445
    25134
    25136

    Salsa, Mild 5lb.
    840219140445
    5/27/2025
    5/28/2025

    Cucumber Sliced/Grape Tomato 50/2oz.
    840219184784
    5/22/2025
    5/23/2025

    Cucumber Sliced Unpeeled 5lb.
    840219160733
    25129
    25129

    Cucumber Sliced Unpeeled 50/2oz.
    840219170657
    5/19/2025
    5/19/2025

    Cucumber Spears 50/2oz.
    840219179971
    5/19/2025
    5/19/2025

    Outbreak Investigation of Salmonella: Cucumbers (May 2025) | FDA 

    Company Contact Information

    Consumers:
    Jennifer Henderson-Adams
    (410)-799-5700 Ext. #4305

    Product Photos

    Content current as of:
    06/04/2025

    Regulated Product(s)

    Follow FDA

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  • MIL-OSI New Zealand: Open Polytechnic connection blooms at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

    Source: Open Polytechnic

    Open Polytechnic was well represented at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2025 recently, by Megan Parker, Academic Staff Member in floristry for the distance learning organisation, along with former horticulture graduate and well-known landscape designer Bayley LuuTomes.
    While Megan, who was head judge, enjoyed working alongside various inspiring floral designers on stage, her biggest highlight this year was being invited by Bayley who is a host on the TV show, My Dream Green Home, to collaborate on The Welcome Garden.
    How did this opportunity come about?
    Megan and Bayley had both attended the Singapore Flower Festival in 2024, where Bayley had an informal discussion with the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show Executive Director Trent Cornish.
    “I knew Megan was an amazing florist and said to myself, one day I would love to collaborate with her on a project,” Bayley said.
    “While designing The Welcome Garden, an opportunity presented itself to incorporate her skills and abilities.”
    The Welcome Garden
    The Welcome Garden is the first garden that the public sees when they enter the main gates of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
    According to Bayley, The Welcome Garden delved into the concept of “Endless Possibilities”, inviting us to liberate our minds and dream freely.
    “It’s about breaking free from the boundaries that shackle our creativity, being brave enough to explore unlimited potential, and daring to venture beyond the norm,” he says.
    “The Rubik’s Cube stands as my symbol of this movement and serves as the inspiration for this year’s Welcome Garden at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show.”
    Inside the cube Megan created the heart of the cube, the eye of the cube, along with the dreamcatcher.
    “It had to be colourful, picking up the colours of the cube and be tropical to connect with the planting,” Megan said.
    Megan’s piece also had lights, so it looked amazing when the gardens were open at night-time.
    Bayley’s horticulture journey
    According to Bayley, horticulture is in his blood.
    “From a very young age my inspiration came from my mother who gave me a small corner of the family garden, to grow what I wanted,” he said.
    “She grew food for the family, while I wanted to grow beautiful flowers.”
    This creative side led him to pursue a career in design working in advertising. After a few years Bayley made the decision to leave the world of advertising to follow his dreams of a career in landscaping.
    He took a job working as a gardener in Wellington, before enrolling in Open Polytechnic’s National Certificate in Horticulture (Level 4) which he completed in 2012.
    “Open Polytechnic opened many doors to the industry I was about to step into at the time,” Bayley said.
    “Not only was I armed with the horticultural knowledge that programme provided, it also enabled me to understand plants on a level that improved and enhanced my landscape design.”
    Megan’s role as head judge
    Megan has been a member of the New Zealand Professional Florists (NZPF) since 1985.
    This experience has seen her judge competitions at international shows and events.
    Megan has been the appointed head judge of the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show since 2019.
    This year there were 90 entries to mark, making it an extremely busy time.
    Megan loves the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, which had more than 110,000 people in attendance.
    “We have nothing like this in New Zealand not even on a small scale any longer,” she says.
    The experience of being involved in the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, provided opportunities for Megan to converse with other show attendees, including ākonga (learners) and their very proud and supportive families.
    “The floristry students and tutors I spoke with were blown away that we (Open Polytechnic) teach both Level 2 and Level 3 online,” she says.
    “I love to share how this process is possible, what we actually teach and the results we gain.”
    Megan joined Open Polytechnic in 2017 and was also involved in helping to set up Open Polytechnic’s first online Level 2 floristry course, which started in 2019.
    “I believe we are breaking ground at the Open Polytechnic with our floristry courses with the way in which we deliver a practical course with great results,” Megan says.
    She also recently received an Associate of Honour, (AHRIH), the highest award possible from the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture’s (RNZIH) at the New Zealand National Awards.
    To find out more about studying floristry at Open Polytechnic, go to www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz

    MIL OSI New Zealand News –

  • MIL-OSI United Nations: United to enhance disaster preparedness: Announcing the launch of the Priority Actions to Enhance Readiness for Resilient Recovery

    Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction

    On 3 June 2025, global leaders gathered at the World Resilient Recovery Conference (WRRC) to launch the Priority Actions to Enhance Readiness for Resilient Recovery – an initiative aimed at accelerating the implementation of Priority Action 4 of the Sendai Framework: Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction. 

    The ten actions, pictured and described in further detail below, are important for several reasons. 

    First, the consultative process to get there was comprehensive and all-inclusive. A total of 130 countries participated across four distinct regions (Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Americas and the Caribbean and Arab States), bringing a diverse set of opinions, needs and expectations. In the end, more than 4,000 individual participants shared their knowledge and expertise. 

    The agreed-upon actions are representative of this crucial and comprehensive consultation process, with a particular focus on people. For example, Priority Action 9 aims to “Localize recovery through community leadership and empowerment.” Key methods to achieve this goal include strengthening the role of local governments and rural and urban governance in recovery readiness, ensuring they have the authority, resources, and capacity to act effectively as they are in the first line of response.

    In addition, creating flexible financing mechanisms that channel funds directly to local actors and frontline responders is also crucial. These tenets of governance and financing were previously discussed in two key webinars in the build-up to WRRC. Finally, the global DRR community must also institutionalize inclusive consultation processes with native and indigenous communities, marginalized and high-risk populations in recovery planning.

    A renewed focus on people and human recovery 

    Similarly, Priority Action 2 emphasizes strengthening the international community’s capacity to “Build and sustain institutional and human capacity for recovery.” In his remarks at the Opening Ceremony for this year’s WRRC, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNDRR Kamal Kishore highlighted that the change in name from World Reconstruction Conference (WRC) to World Resilient Recovery Conference (WRRC) is a part of an intentional “shift in focus from reconstructing physical assets to ensuring human recovery.” He further added that, “It is not just important to reconstruct schools and houses and hospitals that have been damaged in an earthquake or a cyclone, but it is even more important that children have access to safe learning spaces, hospitals provide services [and] infrastructure is built to better standards so that it continues to facilitate livelihoods of communities that it seeks to serve.” 

    SRSG Kishore also emphasized the importance of Priority 4 of the Sendai Framework and its emphasis on “Build Back Better”, which was echoed by Mr. Hiroaki Hara, Vice Minister for Policy Coordination of the Cabinet Office in Japan, and co-chair of the International Recovery Platform (IRP). In his remarks, Vice Minister Hara noted that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Japan, and that “the recovery from this earthquake generated the initial concept of ‘Build Back Better’ for a disaster-resilient society.” He went on to say that “Today’s conference will set an important milestone by focusing particularly on strengthening recovery readiness at national and local levels.”

    Emphasizing implementation and the way forward 

    Beyond the launch itself, the emphasis now shifts to implementation of the Priority Actions. Several key events in the coming months will offer the DRR community opportunities to track progress. These include the High-level Policy Forum on Recovery in September 2025, Regional Dialogues on Resilient Recovery, and the roll-out of the IRP Recovery Readiness Assessment Framework. 

    During the closing ceremony of the WRRC, Ms. Paola Albrito, Director of UNDRR, emphasized this way forward when she said that, “The International Recovery Platform will move ahead with implementation in close coordination with member states and other relevant partners. This includes convening a high-level political forum on recovery in September of this year to scale our commitment. At the regional level, we will use the regional dialogues on resilient recovery to ensure the regional perspectives and needs are fully integrated. And at the national level…a top priority will be the roll-out of the recovery readiness assessment to support countries in evaluating and strengthening their preparedness for resilient recovery. Let’s move forward, united in purpose and bold in action.”

    UNDRR Director Paola Albrito presents the first five Priority Actions 

    Ambassador Christian Frutiger, Assistant Director General and Head of the Global Cooperation Domain said, “[I am] very proud to launch the Priority Actions to Enhance Readiness for Resilient Recovery. These are not just technical recommendations. They are a call to action for national and local governments and partners to join hands in enhancing readiness for resilient recovery. It is important to emphasize that the 10 priority actions are not stand-alone measures. They are interconnected pieces of a larger puzzle.” A short intermission between the presentation of the first five and second five priorities featured a performance by the percussion band KomandoBidon, to spur attendees onwards. “Let’s follow the drumbeat to action”, Ambassador Fruitger said. “We leave here with a clear set of priority actions; concrete steps we can put into practice. Now is the moment to invest, in readiness, in partnerships and in people. Let us carry this momentum into the 8th session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Let us stay connected…and commit to turn our priorities into lasting impact.”

    As part of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025), WRRC plays a key role in shaping global recovery dialogue. Organized under the umbrella of the International Recovery Platform (IRP), with support from key stakeholders, the conference featured technical sessions, masterclasses and regional consultations – all focused on strengthening readiness for resilient recovery. We invite you to explore the session recordings here.

    MIL OSI United Nations News –

  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Supporting small food and drink businesses

    Source: Scottish Government

    Funding to promote local and regional products.

    Food and drink festivals, farmers markets and culinary masterclasses are just some of the projects from across Scotland set to benefit from grants of up to £5,000.

    The latest round of the Regional Food Fund will support 15 local and collaborative projects helping small food businesses to thrive while promoting local produce. 

    Scotland Food & Drink manages the fund aimed at elevating the food and drink industry, enhancing food tourism and showcasing the best the country has to offer. 

    Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon said:  

    “Scotland’s food and drink industry is worth £15 billion to the economy; it is one of the country’s largest employers and is already well-recognised and established across the world.   

    “Engaging with regional markets is vital in achieving our industry strategy and growth ambitions for the next ten years. That’s why, through initiatives like the Regional Food Fund, we are providing much-needed support to small projects to showcase the best products that their regions have to offer.  

    “A wonderful range of projects will be supported through this round, including foraging experiences and masterclasses at Isle of Bute food and drink festival, learning about the turnip being a climate-friendly crop in Fife, or improving their culinary skills at Huntly Hairst’s celebration of local food and drink. I look forward to hearing how each of these exciting projects develops.” 

    Scotland Food & Drink Head of Regional Food Fiona Richmond said: 

    “We are pleased to be able to support 15 more collaborative food and drink projects around the country with the latest round of the Regional Food Fund.

    “Our judging panel were impressed with the level of commitment and creativity shown by the successful applicants, who represent the true passion that makes our vibrant food and drink industry so special.

    “We know that local food and drink initiatives play a vital role in the continued growth of Scotland’s food, drink, and tourism sectors. Congratulations to this year’s recipients – we can’t wait to see the projects we have supported come to life.”

    Background 

    Regional Food Fund | Scotland Food & Drink (foodanddrink.scot) 

    Since 2021, the Scottish Government has provided over £500,000 to the Fund, which has supported 104 collaborative projects, varying from creative artwork to increase customer numbers, new equipment and regional marketing campaigns. 

    The successful applicants in this round are: 

    Huntly Hairst, Aberdeenshire. Celebration of local food and drink  £2,975   

    Established 2012, this year will be a collaboration’ theme, producers will prepare meal plans and menus to guide visitors around the stalls, gathering fresh ingredients, listening to masterclasses and demonstrations. Funding will support production of campaign materials and promotion.  

    Angus Farmers Market, Angus. Appetite for Angus                                £3,000  

    The project aims to rescue and revitalise the farmers’ markets in Forfar, Carnoustie and Montrose which are due to close in their current form. Markets provide a vital source of income in the area. Funds will contribute to market rebrand. 

    Argyll and the Isles. Virtual Farmers’ Market                                           £5,000  

    Creation of innovative digital farmers’ market to help local producers increase their sales and show their contribution to the local economy, both to visitors and locals. This project will off support to rural businesses struggling with rising costs with funds going towards the creation of assets and campaign delivery. 

    Alloa, Clackmannanshire. First Sound Bites Festival 2026                     £5,000  

    Collaborative, community festival to promote sales of local produce. Funding will help expand food and drink offer following successful trial last year and will contribute to marketing material and stall hire. 

    Dumfries and Galloway. Nurture from Nature – Local Food Outlet £5,000  

    Project aims to create a permanent retail outlet for local producers on this working farm. Funding will contribute to development of marketing and promotional costs. 

    Fife. Food from Fife – Retail Display Project                                            £5,000 

    Following the successful trial in November 2024 by regional food group, Food From Fife, roll out of more branded units and point of sale material to a wider range of Fife food and drink businesses, providing dedicated in-store marketing and sales space. 

    North Fife and Tayside. From Tree to Glass                                             £4,500 

    Delivered by Bioregioning Tayside, creation of producer group to promote and grow the area’s craft cider and perry production, preserving its apple, pear and plum heritage.  Funds will support delivery of business to business, consumer and education events and materials. 

    Fife. Turning the Tide for Turnip Revolution                                           £5,000 

    led by East of Scotland Growers will deliver a series of partnerships with chefs, retailers and communities to raise awareness and sales of turnip as a modern, delicious, climate-friendly crop. Funding will contribute to branding, marketing and chef costs. 

    Forth Valley. Forth Valley Five                                                                  £4,993  

    Led by regional food group, Forth Valley Food & Drink, this collaborative project will encourage restaurants, cafes, retailers and locals to add feature five local products on menus; stock five new local products on shelves and add five local products to shopping baskets. Funds will support creation of marketing materials and delivery. 

    Isle of Bute. Isle of Bute Food & Drink Festival                                       £3,240 

    Three-day celebration of the island’s food and drink via producer stalls; masterclasses; foraging and other experiences, delivered by regional food group, Bute Kitchen, in collaboration with other organisations and businesses.  

    Love Loch Lomond – A Taste of Loch Lomond Marketing Campaign    £4,500  

    Marketing campaign to promote a new publication, ‘A Taste of Loch Lomond: Stories & Flavours from the Bonnie Banks’, that showcases stories, products and recipes from the area’s local producers and hospitality businesses. Funding will support campaign material production and promotion. 

    Orkney. Orkney Food and Drink Festival                                                 £5,000  

    Delivered by regional food group, Orkney Food and Drink, this two-day festival will bring together the island’s businesses to sell their products to visitors and locals. Funding will support venue and promotional costs. 

    Outer Hebrides. Hebridean Fine Food & Drink Festival                          £3,000 

    Regional food group, Eat Drink Hebrides, will deliver branding and marketing assets for two food fairs and two networking events including a Food and Drink Awards, increasing sales, promoting local businesses and supporting local supply chains. 

    Fine Cheesemakers of Scotland – Promoting Scottish Artisanal Cheese £5,000  

    Project from this collaborative artisan cheese network to improve digital presence and tell a more compelling and cohesive story to increase sales and promotion. Funding will support professional content rebrand including video/photos/Instagram and website. 

    The Scottish Cider Festival                                                                      £5,000  

    New annual event to promote Scotland’s emerging cider industry, delivered by Fife-based cider pioneers, Aeble. Hosted in Edinburgh, it will provide a platform for the country’s producers to sell their craft products, partnering with other local food and drink producers. Funding will support venue, branding and marketing costs. 

    TOTAL          15 Applicants         TOTAL GRANT CLAIM FUNDING     £66,208   

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Smith, Feenstra Urge USTR to Improve Market Access for U.S. Agricultural Products in India

    Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE)

    Washington, DC — Last week, Reps. Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) led a letter to United States Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer urging improved market access for American agricultural exports – specifically U.S. ethanol, distillers’ dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and soybean meal (SBM) – in India. 

    In their letter, the lawmakers wrote:

    India has publicly expressed its willingness to proceed in high-volume agricultural trade negotiations with the U.S., increasing demand for American farmers. The long-term demand opportunity for DDGS alone could be two million metric tons per year valued at $500 million, which would turn into the second largest export market (behind Mexico). For ethanol, India is already our 3rd largest export destination at 170 million gallons valued at $393 million, however further reducing existing market barriers would allow for over $400 million of additional exports. We are encouraged that the United States and India have been making rapid progress so far in negotiations on reciprocal trade, and are hopeful that farmers throughout the United States can benefit from results in the near future related to exports to India of DDGS and SBM, which comply with its strict non-GMO import restrictions.

    …

    President Trump’s America First agenda includes increasing exports of U.S. agriculture products to reduce the trade deficit. Each year, American farmers continue to increase yield per acre with fewer inputs. Since 2010, corn and soybean production have increased by 20 percent and 31 percent, respectively. Unfortunately, commodity prices have dropped by over 30 percent in the past three years, intensifying the need to expand export markets to keep up with increasing supplies. We believe U.S. Ethanol, DDGS, and SBM exports to India represents an easy win for American farmers and will be a terrific way to begin addressing the federal trade deficit through mutually beneficial trade with India.

    The letter is supported by the National Corn Growers Association, the American Soybean Association, the Iowa Corn Growers Association, and the Iowa Soybean Association.

    This comes as historic advances are made in negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with India, the framework of which was announced by Vice President J.D. Vance and USTR in April. Further, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is slated to travel to India, among other countries, this year in efforts to continue discussions to open new markets for agricultural exports.

    Read the full letter here.

    Additional members who signed the letter include: Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), Tracey Mann (R-KS), Derek Schmidt (R-KS), Tony Wied (R-WI), Don Bacon (R-NE), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Mike Flood (R-NE), Ron Estes (R-KS), Mike Carey (R-OH), Darin LaHood (R-IL), Max Miller (R-OH), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Brad Finstad (R-MN), and Mark Messmer (R-IN)

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Feenstra, Smith Lead Letter Urging U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to Prioritize Improved Market Access for American Agricultural Exports in India

    Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Randy Feenstra (IA-04)

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Reps. Randy Feenstra (R-IA) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) led a letter to U.S. Trade Ambassador Jamieson Representative urging improved market access for American agricultural exports – specifically U.S. ethanol, distillers’ dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and soybean meal (SBM) – in India. 

    In their letter, the lawmakers write that “India has publicly expressed its willingness to proceed in high-volume agricultural trade negotiations with the U.S., increasing demand for American farmers. The long-term demand opportunity for DDGS alone could be two million metric tons per year valued at $500 million, which would turn into the second largest export market (behind Mexico). For ethanol, India is already our 3rd largest export destination at 170 million gallons valued at $393 million, however further reducing existing market barriers would allow for over $400 million of additional exports. We are encouraged that the United States and India have been making rapid progress so far in negotiations on reciprocal trade, and are hopeful that farmers throughout the United States can benefit from results in the near future related to exports to India of DDGS and SBM, which comply with its strict non-GMO import restrictions.”

    “President Trump’s America First agenda includes increasing exports of U.S. agriculture products to reduce the trade deficit. Each year, American farmers continue to increase yield per acre with fewer inputs. Since 2010, corn and soybean production have increased by 20 percent and 31 percent, respectively. Unfortunately, commodity prices have dropped by over 30 percent in the past three years, intensifying the need to expand export markets to keep up with increasing supplies. We believe U.S. Ethanol, DDGS, and SBM exports to India represents an easy win for American farmers and will be a terrific way to begin addressing the federal trade deficit through mutually beneficial trade with India,” the lawmakers added.

    The letter is supported by the National Corn Growers Association, the American Soybean Association, the Iowa Corn Growers Association, and the Iowa Soybean Association.

    This comes as historic advances are made in negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with India, the framework of which was announced by Vice President J.D. Vance and USTR in April. Further, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is slated to travel to India, among other countries, this year in efforts to continue discussions to open new markets for agricultural exports. 

    The full letter can be found HERE.

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  • MIL-OSI: MoonFox Data Releases New Report: Instant Retail Becomes the Next Battleground as JD.com and Meituan Intensify Food Delivery Competition in China

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    Shenzhen, June 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — [Shenzhen, China] – [June 3, 2025] – MoonFox Data, a leading provider of market intelligence and data analytics, today released its latest report, “Instant Retail Remains a Long-Term Battle, and the Food Delivery Battle Is Just the Beginning.” The report reveals how China’s instant retail sector is entering a new phase of fierce competition, with JD.com and Meituan at the forefront, leveraging food delivery as a critical driver of user growth and market expansion in 2025.

    In 2025, JD.com and Meituan engaged in several rounds of online “cross-platform jabs” over their food delivery services. Topics such as “Food Delivery Battle” and “Meituan Issues Another Statement” trended on social media. Amid the ensuing “war of words” and mounting public debate, both platforms’ ambitions in the “instant retail” space were laid bare.

    Tracing back their development, it is evident that JD.com and Meituan have been investing in instant retail for over a decade. As early as 2018, Meituan internally launched the “Flash Sale” brand focused on instant delivery of retail items. However, after 7 years and multiple rounds of fierce competition in community group purchase, “Meituan Flash Sale” was only officially launched as an independent brand in 2025. Meanwhile, from 2015 to 2023, JD.com steadily bolstered its capabilities in supply chain, digitalization, and logistics. By integrating diverse service segments, including JD Health, JD Car Care, and convenience supermarkets, the company established a robust localized service chain. In 2024, building on this integrated capacity, JD.com officially unveiled “JD Instant Delivery” as its flagship instant delivery service.

    Table 1: Development History of Instant Retail Business on Various Platforms

    JD.com Meituan
    2015: Launched “JD Home Delivery” service 2018: Internally launched “Meituan Flash Sale”
    2019: Launched “Meituan Vegetable Shopping”, rapidly expanding into first-tier cities and entering the community group purchase market
    2021: JD.com and DADA jointly launched “JD Hourly Purchase” 2020:

    In July, launched “Meituan Selected” to capture community e-commerce in lower-tier markets

    In September, began deploying “Meituan Flash Warehouse” in first-tier cities
    2022: JD became the controlling shareholder of DADA Group Upgraded “Meituan Vegetable Shopping” to “Xiaoxiang Supermarket” in December 2023, expanding supply from fresh produce to daily retail goods
    2024:

    Integrated “JD Hourly Delivery”, “JD Home Delivery”, etc., and launched “JD Instant Delivery” with a primary entrance on the JD homepage in May

    JD’s fresh food business “7FRESH” opened its first pre-warehouse in Beijing and commenced operations in September

    		 2024:

    Xiaoxiang Supermarket increased its proportion of self-operated products, benchmarking against Freshippo and Sam’s Club, featuring single-portion/small-quantity offerings for differentiation

    Meituan initiated a “Ten Thousand Warehouses for Thousand Cities” network layout; by October, the number of Flash Warehouses exceeded 30,000
    2025:

    Launched food delivery on the JD platform in February

    Rebranded “JD Vegetable Shopping” to “JD 7FRESH” in March, transitioning to a platform model to offer fresh food access from Sam’s Club, Pagoda, Dingdong Vegetable Shopping, and others

    JD launched “Self-operated Instant Delivery” e-commerce service in April; over 100,000 JD-branded offline stores have connected to Instant Delivery; Starbucks Delivery and HLA Group officially came on board

    		 Official launch of Meituan Flash Sale as an independent brand in April 2025

    Data Source: Public information, compiled by MoonFox Research Institute

    I. Instant Retail Shows Strong Potential, but Sustained Survival Remains Challenging

    To begin with, it’s essential to clarify the concepts of local life services and instant retail: Local life services refer to the use of online channels to display information about local brick-and-mortar businesses, with transactions completed offline services (through in-store visits or home). This model emphasizes “geographic relevance”. Instant retail, as a key component of local life services, involves delivering products from local retail models (such as supermarkets, warehouses, and storefronts) directly to consumers through same-city delivery. It covers a wide range of categories, including food & beverages, fresh produce, electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Services like hourly delivery, half-day delivery, community group purchase, and food delivery all fall within the scope of instant retail. Its high time sensitivity is the key factor distinguishing it from traditional e-commerce and parcel delivery.

    The local life services sector is constantly seeing the emergence of new entrants. However, most of these newcomers tend to focus on “in-store” business models rather than delivery-heavy services, as the latter demand robust and fast-changing delivery ecosystems that many find difficult to sustain.

    For example, Douyin launched “Beckoning Food Delivery” in 2021 and formed strategic partnerships with service providers like Ele.me, DADA, and SF Express. However, after lukewarm results, Douyin Life Services pivoted its local service strategy to focus on the business from group purchase to in-store visits. Kwai trialed food delivery through selected local life service merchants in 2023 but did not scale up, maintaining its focus on in-store deals of group purchase. DiDi attempted to launch food delivery twice in China but failed both times and has since shifted its food delivery ambitions to overseas markets in 2025. Community group purchase brands like Nice Tuan, Chengxin Selected and MissFresh shut down around 2023 due to operational difficulties…

    Despite these setbacks, instant retail still holds vast potential within China, especially in lower-tier markets.

    Industry statistics show that in 2024, China’s instant retail market reached approximately RMB 780 billion, accounting for only 6% of total online retail of physical goods. The market distribution between major cities and county-level areas is roughly 7:3. By 2030, the market is expected to surpass RMB 2 trillion.

    Table 2: Instant Retail Market Growth in China (2018 – 2030)

    Year Instant Retail Market Transaction Volume (RMB 100 million) Transaction Volume YoY Growth Share of Online Retail Transaction Volume of Physical Goods
    2018 690 88 % 1.0 %
    2019 1,180 71 % 1.4 %
    2020 2,150 82 % 2.3 %
    2021 2,350 9 % 2.2 %
    2022 5,040 114 % 4.5 %
    2023 6,500 29 % 5.3 %
    2024 7,800 20 % 6.0 %
    2025E 10,030 29 % 7.1 %
    2026E 11,750 17 % 7.7 %
    2023E 20,000 10.1 %

    Data Source: Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, National Bureau of Statistics, Reports from SDIC Securities, compiled by MoonFox Research Institute.

    II. Platforms Face Growth Anxiety and Urgently Need New Growth Curves

    For JD.com, local life services remain fertile ground with significant untapped potential. Among them, instant retail, characterized by high purchase frequency and rapid conversion, is undoubtedly a critical lever for driving business growth and attracting UV.

    Table 3: Comparison of Different Retail Models (In Terms of Profitability Efficiency: Instant Retail > Traditional E-commerce > Offline Retail)

    Type Instant Retail Traditional E-commerce In-store Visits of Group Purchase Offline Retail
    Consumer Behavior Place order online, with hourly delivery or flash delivery Place order online → shipped via express → received Order online, redeem in-store Browse and purchase in-store, offline payment
    B2B Requirements High-frequency demand; rich product supply is essential

    Low return rate

    Instant fulfillment

    		 High-frequency demand

    High return rate

    Long fulfillment cycle

    		 Pre-purchase vouchers

    Redemption rates fluctuate

    Unstable fulfillment window

    		 Low-frequency demand

    Low return rate

    Instant fulfillment

    Traditional e-commerce has passed its high-growth phase. In recent years, large-scale promotional events such as “618” and “D11” have lost their earlier traction, signaling consumer fatigue towards excessive discounting and promotional gimmicks. In response, e-commerce platforms such as Taobao, JD.com, and Vipshop have extended promotional periods and introduced “Billion-RMB Subsidy” to maintain total sales growth. However, Pinduoduo’s rapid rise and the increasing competitiveness of emerging e-commerce platforms like Douyin and Kwai have created new challenges. JD.com’s dominance, particularly in the electronics product category, is now under threat from multiple fronts.

    During Meituan’s Q3 2024 financial report audio conference, founder Wang Xing commented on industry trends, stating that instant retail will eventually account for over 10% of the total e-commerce market, and that Meituan Flash Sale’s growth has exceeded expectations. The 2024 financial report noted: “In 2024, ‘Meituan Flash Warehouses’ experienced significant growth, particularly in lower-tier markets, where they have become a key growth channel for many retailers. A number of major traditional retail companies have adopted ‘Meituan Flash Warehouse’ model… As our instant delivery business expands, we remain committed to building a sustainable ecosystem.”

    According to Meituan’s financial reports from 2022 to 2024, the platform’s gross profit margin has grown by over 30% YoY for three consecutive years, with its gross margin increasing from 28% to 38%. Core local services revenue maintained a YoY growth rate exceeding 20%, and new business income continued to accelerate. Although Meituan Flash Sale had not yet officially launched, it was repeatedly highlighted in annual financial reports over the past 5 years as a key growth engine for the platform.

    III. JD.com’s Surprise PR Offensive: Rapid Expansion into Meituan’s Core Territory

    In early April, JD.com CEO Xu Ran stated in an interview with 36Kr that the food delivery business could help JD.com increase both user base and purchase frequency, extending its service scenarios.

    On April 15, a leaked 7-minute internal meeting audio recording of Liu Qiangdong revealed his views on the domestic food delivery industry: Food delivery platform commissions can reach as high as 25% (sometimes over 30%), which he attributed to monopolistic practices that force small and medium-sized merchants to cut food quality, negatively impacting the consumer experience. He also proposed differentiated insurance policies for full-time and part-time couriers to better safeguard their rights.

    As early as 2022, Meituan’s financial report showed that its food delivery business had reached a peak of over 60 million orders per day. Although there is still a significant gap in order volume between the two platforms, JD Food Delivery achieved over 10 million in a single day on April 22, reflecting rapid growth.

    Comparing the daily new user growth for merchant and courier platforms since the start of 2025, JD Instant Delivery Merchant Edition and DADA Instant Delivery Courier Edition apps saw a UV surge. According to MoonFox Data, JD Instant Delivery Merchant Edition app peaked in daily new user numbers on April 24. Both platform initiatives and market responses clearly indicate that JD is making a bold incursion into Meituan’s food delivery “stronghold”.

    Table 4: New Daily User Growth on Merchant & Courier Platforms (2025)

    Average Daily New Users Meituan Food Delivery Merchant Edition App Meituan Courier Edition App Meituan Crowdsourcing DADA Instant Delivery Courier Edition App JD Instant Delivery Merchant Edition App
    January 13,236 18,069 18,624 12,345 2,671
    February 14,186 26,081 33,413 69,820 45,454
    March 16,606 23,781 34,178 47,042 50,499
    April 17,256 21,021 31,207 181,658 64,538

    Data Source: MoonFox iApp, Data Cycle: January 1, 2025 – April 27, 2025

    For users, switching between food delivery apps has low friction. With a clear intent to order, pricing and delivery time are often the only decisive factors. Last summer, Ele.me attracted UV via its “Answer to Win Free Meal” campaign, which relied on extremely low discounts and simple, engaging interactions. While Meituan launched “Meal Group Buying”, significantly lowering average order value to retain users through volume sales, though at the cost of some dining experience. In addition, Ele.me also tied its premium membership to Taobao’s 88VIP, leveraging high member stickiness from Taobao to boost Ele.me order frequency.

    For platforms, the fast migration of users and high usage frequency makes food delivery the best UV lever for JD.com to grow its instant retail business. But before that, onboarding a large number of restaurant merchants and recruiting a sufficient courier fleet are essential. Since launching JD Food Delivery on February 11, the platform has used a range of PR tactics to become a major industry topic, quickly moving beyond its cold start into a phase of explosive growth.

    • Late February: JD took the lead in advocating reform in the food delivery sector, focusing on courier welfare. This proactive stance gave JD the upper hand in the initial “war of words”. With value-driven messaging and concrete policy support, JD.com gained public recognition and courier endorsement.
    • In April, JD.com and Meituan entered a second round of confrontation. JD.com issued an open letter condemning Meituan’s various “misdeeds” and simultaneously rolled out new support policies and promotional benefits, once again pushing “JD Food Delivery” into the spotlight across the internet. The following day, “Liu Qiangdong Takes on Food Delivery” showcased JD’s strong commitment to developing its food delivery business. With a light-hearted and humorous public image, Liu won over netizens, who jokingly dubbed his delivery persona “GG Bond”. This, coupled with the platform’s swift marketing response, sparked a new wave of viral attention.

    During this second “war of words” wave, although Meituan responded swiftly with rebuttals, and some couriers questioned the accuracy of JD’s claims on social media, the incentives offered by JD helped counterbalance earlier criticism. However, overall, the various incentives released by the platform are helping to offset the negative public opinion caused by early-stage issues. JD has still managed to earn the trust of most merchants and couriers.

    Table 5: Platform-level New User Scale Growth

    Average Daily New Users Meituan App JD App
    January 2,031,496 862,633
    February 1,168,203 807,748
    March 1,265,657 889,403
    April 1,331,168 1,484,954

    Data Source: MoonFox iApp, Data Cycle: January 1, 2025 – April 27, 2025

    Table 6: Key Events in the 2025 “Food Delivery Battle”

    Key Date JD.com Actions Meituan Responses
    February 24 JD Food Delivery announced “Three Key Policies”: no commission all year, full social insurance for full-time couriers, and mandatory dine-in capability for merchants Meituan launched the “City Defense Plan”, lowering core merchant commissions from 23% to 6% – 8%.
    April 14 JD launched “Self-operated Instant Delivery” Meituan Flash Sale launched.
    April 21 JD issued an open letter: accusing Meituan of forcing couriers to choose one platform and announced plans to recruit 100,000 full-time couriers and offer a “late delivery, free meal” policy. Meituan denied the accusations and ramped up subsidies.
    April 22 JD Food Delivery surpassed 10 million daily orders; “Liu Qiangdong Takes on Food Delivery” trended online.

    IV. The “Food Delivery Battle” Ushers in a New Era of Instant Retail Competition

    In April, amid the intense “Food Delivery Battle” between JD.com and Meituan, both Meituan “Flash Sale” and JD’s “Self-operated Instant Delivery” services were launched simultaneously.

    Just ahead of the Labor Day holiday, “Taobao Flash Sale” went live in 50 cities, followed by a nationwide rollout on May 2. To drive up order frequency during the holiday, Taobao partnered with Ele.me to issue substantial consumer subsidies such as free-order card and treat-voucher card.

    According to MoonFox Data, since April 2025, JD.com’s daily new user volume has continuously increased, and has surpassed Meituan’s since April 16. Since the launch of its food delivery service, JD.com has also seen a steady rise in average user online time. As of April 23, average daily online time reached 14.27 minutes per user, increased by 54% compared with the same period last year.

    Table 7: Changes in JD.com’s Active User Online Time

    Month Average Usage Time (mins/month)

    MoM Changes
    2024-4 276.31 -4.3 %
    2024-5 300.10 8.6 %
    2024-6 310.27 3.4 %
    2024-7 292.11 -5.9 %
    2024-8 291.60 -0.2 %
    2024-9 309.98 6.3 %
    2024-10 337.85 9.0 %
    2024-11 332.55 -1.6 %
    2024-12 319.87 -3.8 %
    2025-1 329.24 2.9 %
    2025-2 310.20 -5.8 %
    2025-3 343.47 10.7 %
    2025-4 384.93 12.1 %

    Data Source: MoonFox iApp, Data Cycle: April 28, 2024 – April 23, 2025

    Despite reports of issues such as “inefficient processes” and “system bugs” with JD Food Delivery, there are still many shortcomings in the courier operation procedures that need to be addressed. However, driven by benefits related to commission rates and employee protection, a large number of couriers are switching platforms, while food delivery merchants and offline stores are also accelerating their entry into “JD Instant Delivery”. With intensified investment in business development models, infrastructure construction, and supporting policies, both JD and Meituan are stepping up efforts to seize market share.

    Table 8: Platform Characteristics Comparison

    Infrastructure JD Instant Delivery Meituan Flash Sale
    Warehouse Mode Centralized Warehouses (self-operated) + Branded Stores (as front warehouses) Flash Warehouse + Offline Retail Stores
    Delivery Service DADA Instant Delivery(contracted couriers) + JD Logistics Third-party Service Provider Contracted Couriers
    Introduction Stage

    Policy Advantages

    		 0% commission for select premium merchants

    “Billion-RMB Subsidy” campaign for JD Food Delivery users

    Job & insurance support for couriers

    		 0% commission for Flash Warehouse franchising (initial investment > RMB 300K)

    Exclusive UV privilege, “Climbing Plan” course and customized support for new merchants
    Digital Platform JD Instant Delivery Open Platform Meituan Morning Glory System
    Coverage Area As of May 2024, JD Instant Delivery has covered 2,300 counties/cities, with 500K+ partner stores As of October 2024, Meituan has had over 30K flash warehouses
    UV Entrance JD App (homepage + search bar) Meituan Homepage + Meituan Food Delivery

    Data Source: Public information, compiled by MoonFox Research Institute

    Meituan’s instant retail business is an extension of its food delivery capabilities, relying on third-party franchises and offline retail store partnerships for warehousing, and service-provider-based courier models. This asset-light strategy plays to Meituan’s platform operation strengths, enabling rapid territorial expansion across cities.

    JD’s instant retail business places greater emphasis on its “self-operated” model, leveraging its early investments in e-commerce warehousing as a key foundation. It expands operations based on regional fulfillment centers while strengthening partnerships with offline stores, particularly branded chain stores, to enhance delivery efficiency and ensure product quality, a strategy that aligns with users’ existing perception of JD’s authenticity and logistics capabilities in e-commerce. The supply of local couriers primarily relies on contracted riders from DADA Instant Delivery. In recent years, JD Group’s increasing equity stake in DADA has further strengthened its influence over last-mile delivery in the instant retail sector.

    The attention generated by the “Food Delivery Battle” and the boom of instant retail has created invisible pressure for traditional e-commerce giants like Taobao. Taobao, backed by Alibaba’s vast ecosystem, including Tmall Supermarket, Amap, Ele.me, Freshippo, and Alipay, has promising opportunities in the local life service sector. However, the coordination between different business units and the logistics efficiency within the last 3 to 5 kilometers remain key challenges that the platform must overcome to scale its instant retail business.

    At present, Taobao Flash Sale appears to be a combination of Ele.me’s original food delivery services and Taobao’s previous “hourly delivery” feature, swiftly entering the competition to drive UV and user engagement. During the Labor Day holiday, topics such as #Taobao Flash Sale Crashed# even trended on social media platforms.

    For Meituan, instant retail represents a new growth engine; For JD.com, it is a strategic lever to drive growth across its entire e-commerce ecosystem. Compared with the overt and covert competition between the two giants, the rapid launch of Taobao Flash Sale is more of a defensive move. Its long-term prospects remain to be seen. For now, all major platforms are still focused on strengthening infrastructure and optimizing operational efficiency, with instant retail shaping up to be a long-term battle.

    About MoonFox Data

    As a sub-brand of Aurora Mobile, MoonFox Data is a leading expert in data insights and analysis services across all scenarios. With a comprehensive, stable, secure and compliant mobile big data foundation, as well as professional and precise data analysis technology and AI algorithms, MoonFox Data has launched iAPP, iBrand, iMarketing, Alternative Data and professional research and consulting services of MoonFox Research, aiming to help companies gain insights into market growth and make accurate business decisions.

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  • MIL-OSI Australia: Vale Nick Trandos

    Source: South Australia Police

    The Cities of Joondalup and Wanneroo offer their sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Nick Trandos OAM JP, who has passed away, aged 90.

    Nick leaves a legacy of leadership and service to Wanneroo and Joondalup, highlighted by his prominent roles in the development of Hillarys Boat Harbour and the Mitchell Freeway extension to Ocean Reef Road in 1988.

    His fundraising and lobbying played a large part in securing two major projects that would transform the district.

    Born in Kefalari, Greece in 1934, Nick came to rural Wanneroo in 1949 with his family, where he finished his schooling before working in the family vegetable garden.

    He started in local government in 1960 on the Wanneroo Road Board and served 24 years as an elected member in Wanneroo between 1960 – 1966 and again from 1970 to 1988.

    The last President of the Shire of Wanneroo and the first Mayor of the City of Wanneroo, Nick represented the Council on the Joondalup Development Corporation, which was established in 1976 to oversee the development of Joondalup City Centre.

    Nick was a staunch advocate of the Joondalup City Centre concept and closely involved in Wanneroo Council decisions that would impact the future direction of Joondalup.

    Active outside of local government, he founded Olympic Kingsway Sports Club and was twice club President and served as President of the WA Market Gardeners’ Association for 25 years and National President of the Australian Vegetable Growers’ Federation (1983-85).

    An Honorary Freeman of both Joondalup and Wanneroo, Nick was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for community service in 1988.

    Remembered as a man with great vision and community spirit, Nick’s first and deepest love was always his family.  He will be sorely missed.

    Vale Nick Trandos. Thank you for all you have done for our region. May you rest in peace.  

    Linda Aitken, Wanneroo Mayor

    Albert Jacob, Joondalup Mayor

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  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: UK international risk status for BSE downgraded in huge boost to farm sector

    Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments

    Press release

    UK international risk status for BSE downgraded in huge boost to farm sector

    World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) downgrades UK’s BSE risk rating to negligible

    The UK’s risk rating status for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been downgraded to negligible by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

    In a major boost for the food and farm sector, more avenues will now be open for trade with other countries as our improved risk status for beef and bovine products is recognised.  

    The abattoir and meat processing industry will be able to take advantage of changes to control measures, which will reduce operational burden and release financial savings for the abattoir and meat processing industry.

    The UK’s improved risk status is a reflection of the UK’s global reputation for having some of the highest standards in the world for biosecurity . 

    BSE, occasionally known as mad cow disease,  was a considerable public health concern in the 1980s leading to long-standing bans on British beef exports. The downgrading risk status marks a major step forward, reflecting decades of rigorous controls and opening the door to expanded trade and renewed confidence in UK beef.

    Farming Minister Zeichner said:

    Today’s announcement is a major step forward and will deliver a real boost to our hard-working cattle farmers, who will now have more avenues open for trading our excellent beef products.

    It is also a huge vote of confidence in this government’s commitment to rigorous animal health standards and biosecurity.

    UK Chief Veterinary Officer, Christine Middlemiss said: 

    WOAH’s recognition of the UK as negligible risk for BSE is a significant milestone and is a testament to the UK’s strong biosecurity measures and the hard work and vigilance of farmers and livestock keepers across the country who have all played their part in managing the spread of this disease.  

    This is the latest example of the UK’s global reputation as a world leader in biosecurity and our new status will improve UK trade for beef and bovine products and reduce the operational burden and create financial savings for the abattoir and meat processing industry.

    Natasha Smith, Deputy Director of Food Policy at the Food Standards Agency said:     

    This good news reflects that our strict controls in place to protect consumers such as controls on animal feed, and removal of the parts of cattle most likely to carry BSE infectivity,  have helped make sure there is no food safety risk.    

    Although the meat industry will be now able to use more of the carcass, consumers can be reassured that strict food safety controls remain in place.  Food Standards Agency Official Veterinarians and Meat Hygiene Inspectors working in all abattoirs in England and Wales will continue to ensure that the safety of consumers remains the top priority. 

    Nan Jones, British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) Technical Policy Manager said:

    This milestone is of significant value to the industry. To illustrate, the ability to recover mesenteric fat alone could generate value of approximately £10 million per year. Given the substantial benefits this change brings to our members, we hope that the improving UK–EU relationship offers an opportunity to seek earlier EU recognition of our status.

    Jonathan Eckley, Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) International Trade Development Director, said:

    This is welcome news for the UK beef sector. It highlights the strength of our animal health and food safety systems, reinforces the UK’s reputation for high-quality beef, and supports ongoing efforts to grow our export markets.

    Farmers and livestock owners are still urged to remain vigilant for BSE disease. BSE is a notifiable animal disease. If you suspect it, you must report it immediately by calling the Defra Rural Services Helpline on 03000 200 301. In Wales, contact 0300 303 8268. In Scotland, contact your local Field Services Office. Failure to do so is an offence. This applies to pet and small holder animals as well as commercial cattle.

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    Published 2 June 2025

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  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Fruit and veg import checks scrapped ahead of UK-EU deal

    Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments 2

    Press release

    Fruit and veg import checks scrapped ahead of UK-EU deal

    In advance of a new SPS agreement with EU, fruit and veg imports will require no fees or border checks – saving businesses time and money

    The government will scrap border checks on fruit and veg imported from the European Union in an early move to ease trade ahead of its new SPS (sanitary and phytosanitary) deal with the EU.

    The agreement will establish a UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary zone, slashing costs, easing pressure on food prices and eliminating routine SPS border checks for food exports and imports.

    This means that checks on medium-risk fruit and vegetables (including tomatoes, grapes, plums, cherries, peaches, peppers, and more) imported from the EU will not be required – and will therefore not be brought into force this summer.

    In the short term, businesses can continue importing medium-risk fruit and vegetables from the EU without the products being subject to import checks or being charged associated fees.

    The SPS agreement will make food trade with the UK’s biggest market cheaper and easier. Cutting excessive red tape and fees for traders exporting to and importing from the EU will strengthen supply chains and reduce prices for businesses and consumers.

    Biosecurity Minister Baroness Hayman said:

    This government’s EU deal will make food cheaper, slash bureaucracy and remove cumbersome border controls for businesses.

    A strengthened, forward-looking partnership with the European Union will deliver for working people as part of our Plan for Change.

    The easement of import checks on medium-risk fruit and vegetables from the EU was introduced as a temporary measure to provide businesses time to prepare for their implementation, and ensure a smooth flow of essential goods across the UK border.

    The easement of checks has now been extended from 1 July 2025 to 31 January 2027 as a contingency measure, following the government’s announcement that it will agree a new SPS deal with the EU.

    The details of the SPS agreement are now to be negotiated; traders must continue to comply with the UK’s Border Target Operating Model (BTOM).

    Protecting UK biosecurity remains a key government priority, and risk-based surveillance will continue to manage the biosecurity risks of these products.

    Defra will continue to work with the Animal and Plant Health Agency and Border Control Post operators to maintain UK biosecurity while minimising disruption to the flow of goods.

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Rep. Neguse Introduces Legislation to Reinstate All Parks and Forest Staff Fired by DOGE Cuts

    Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Joe Neguse (D-Co 2)

    Washington, D.C. — As the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) brace for impact, with public reporting warning additional layoffs are imminent, Congressman Joe Neguse introduced landmark legislation that pushes back against further cuts to the federal workforce and moves to restore adequate staffing levels ahead of the agencies’ busy summer months. The bills, the Protect our Parks Act and Save Our Forests Act, direct administration officials to rehire individuals wrongfully terminated as part of Trump’s DOGE initiative.  

    Neguse, who serves as Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands, represents some of Colorado’s world-renowned parks and forests, including Rocky Mountain National Park and the Arapaho and Roosevelt and White River National Forests. Since the start of the year, he’s been a vocal opponent of the administration’s full-scale attack on the federal workforce, and his latest effort highlights the dramatic impact of cuts on parks and forests—leaving these shared spaces understaffed and vulnerable, with weakened wildfire prevention, search-and-rescue operations, and maintenance of campgrounds, trails, and restrooms. 

    “Coloradans are sounding the alarm: the Trump Administration’s federal funding and purging of the workforce have made our national parks and forests less safe and more prone to disaster. This is simply unacceptable,” said Congressman Neguse. “With the summer months fast approaching, we must act to reinstate terminated employees at our land management agencies to protect communities across the West.” 

    Both the Protect our Parks Act and Save Our Forests Act are co-led by Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (CA-02) and Vice Ranking Member Sarah Elfreth (MD-03), as well as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture, Andrea Salinas (OR-06). They are championed by Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) in the United States Senate. 

    “The Trump Administration’s relentless and deeply damaging attacks on our federal workforce, especially the dedicated public servants at the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service, demand accountability,” said Ranking Member Jared Huffman. “From abrupt relocations to politically motivated firings, the career professionals who steward our public lands have been treated as expendable. With another wave of forced reductions reportedly imminent, Congress must act. The Protect Our Parks Act and the Save Our Forests Act will ensure these agencies are fully staffed, reinstate wrongfully terminated employees, and keep critical federal projects on track—from climate resilience and wildfire prevention to trail maintenance and infrastructure upgrades. We owe it to these workers, and to the American people who depend on them, to set this right.”

    “With summer fast approaching, we should be hiring more workers who can keep visitors safe at our national parks and protect our communities from wildfires. Instead, the Trump Administration is recklessly firing workers at both the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service – putting even more strain on these agencies at a time when they are already short-staffed,” said Congresswoman Salinas. “These job cuts are unacceptable, which is why I’m proud to introduce two bills that would restore staffing levels and rehire Park Rangers and Forest Service workers who were wrongfully terminated. America’s public servants deserve respect and appreciation for their hard work, and our legislation does just that.”

    “The National Park Service and National Forest Service are crucial to land conservation, historic preservation, and protecting our natural resources. Due to the illegal actions of this Administration, these agencies are operating on a skeleton crew and shoestring budget to carry out the work the law requires. I am proud to co-lead the Protect Our Parks Act and Save Our Forests Act with Assistant Leader Neguse, Ranking Member Huffman, and Rep. Salinas to reinstate staff and restore funding at the NPS and NFS,” said Congresswoman Elfreth.  

    Find additional details on the bills below:

    • The Protect our Parks Act directs the Secretary of Interior to ensure adequate staffing within the National Park System for the overall safety and wellbeing of visitor safety and natural and cultural resource protection. It also orders the reinstatement of any individuals terminated as part of the Trump Administration’s reckless mass firings (beginning on January 20, 2025).
    • The Save Our Forests Act directs the Secretary of Agriculture to ensure adequate staffing within the National Forest System, as well as proper resources for maintaining the health, diversity, and productivity of these lands. It also orders the reinstatement of any individuals terminated as part of the Trump Administration’s reckless mass firings (beginning on January 20, 2025). 

    Both bills also help keep critical federal projects moving forward, including those funded by widely supported and enacted laws such as the Great American Outdoors Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act. 

    They are endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters, The Wilderness Society, Environment America, National Federation of Federal Employees, and The Trust for Public Land; and the Protect our Parks Act has additional backing from the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA).  

    See what they’re saying below:  

    “With mass firings of land management staff, the Trump administration has put our public lands and our ability to enjoy and benefit from them at risk,” said LCV Conservation Program Director, America Fitzpatrick.“Legislation like the bills introduced today by Representatives Neguse, Huffman, Elfreth, and Salinas will serve to curb the fallout from the Trump administration’s dangerous policies that seek to decimate our parks and public lands. LCV thanks the bill sponsors for standing up for public servants who steward our parks and public lands, fight wildfire, educate the public, and share our nation’s history, and for continuing to fight back against this administration’s dangerous and indiscriminate firings.“ 

    “Our national parks are facing a crisis. Since January, roughly 13% of park staff have been pushed out due to pressured buyouts, retirements and resignations,” said President and CEO of National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Theresa Pierno. “These workers are the backbone of our parks, maintaining trails, managing wildlife, guiding visitors, and protecting our natural and cultural heritage. Parks can’t thrive without the staff who protect them, which is why this bill is so critical right now. This bill would bring back essential staffing as parks face record-breaking crowds. NPCA commends Representatives Neguse, Huffman, Elfreth and Salinas for supporting the dedicated staff who care for America’s most cherished places every day.”

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Dmitry Chernyshenko: 10 world-class scientific centers have been selected for grants

    Translation. Region: Russian Federal

    Source: Government of the Russian Federation – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.

    Dmitry Chernyshenko held another meeting of the Presidium of the Commission for Scientific and Technological Development of Russia

    May 31, 2025

    Dmitry Chernyshenko held another meeting of the Presidium of the Commission for Scientific and Technological Development of Russia

    May 31, 2025

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    Dmitry Chernyshenko held another meeting of the Presidium of the Commission for Scientific and Technological Development of Russia

    Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko held a regular meeting of the Presidium of the Commission for Scientific and Technological Development of Russia, at which confirmed the winners competitive selection for the provision of grants to world-class research centers (WRC).

    The meeting was attended by the Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov, the First Deputy Minister of Economic Development Maxim Kolesnikov, the Deputy Minister of Finance Pavel Kadochnikov, and representatives of scientific and educational organizations.

    “Based on the results of the competition, 10 NCMUs were selected. Their activities will be aimed at developing and introducing into the economy the most important science-intensive technologies defined by the decree of President Vladimir Putin. The size of the subsidy for each of the selected world-class scientific centers will be up to 320 million rubles annually,” Dmitry Chernyshenko emphasized.

    The Deputy Prime Minister also noted that the commission’s scientific and technical council provided expertise for all applications received, and thanked its head Gennady Krasnikov for the work he had done.

    The head of the Ministry of Education and Science, Valery Falkov, reported that applications were received for the competitive selection in all seven priority areas of scientific and technological development approved by the head of state.

    “In the future, it is planned to assign selected scientific centers to industry federal executive bodies. This will ensure the closest possible interaction between the parties,” the minister noted.

    “Last year, in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 18, 2024, seven priority areas of scientific and technological development of our country were approved. In this regard, when considering applications, the scientific and technical council of the commission and the Russian Academy of Sciences proceeded from the fact that each priority area should correspond to at least one world-class scientific center. In total, we considered 46 applications,” said RAS President Gennady Krasnikov.

    Grants in the form of subsidies from the federal budget for the creation of the NCMU will be provided to 10 winning centers:

    — World-class scientific center IT SB RAS “Thermophysics and Power Engineering” (S.S. Kutateladze Institute of Thermal Physics SB RAS),

    — World-class scientific center “New materials for special purposes” (Tomsk State University),

    — Center for Cybernetic Medicine and Neuroprosthetics (Federal Center for Brain and Neurotechnology FMBA),

    — Center for Modern Breeding of Agricultural Plants (Federal Scientific Center for Vegetable Growing),

    — World-class scientific center “Agroengineering of the Future” (Stavropol State Agrarian University),

    — Center for Advanced Microelectronics (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology),

    — “Electronic and quantum technologies based on synthetic diamond” (NRNU MEPhI),

    — “Intelligent unmanned aircraft systems” (Samara National Research University named after academician S.P. Korolev),

    — Center for Rational Use of Rare Metal Raw Materials (A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences),

    — World-class scientific center “High-tech bioeconomics” (National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”).

    The size of the grants is determined by the development program of each center, which is formed for a period of at least six years.

    Let us recall that the first world-class scientific centers were created in 2020 as part of the national project “Science and Universities”, the implementation of which was completed last year. On the instructions of President Vladimir Putin, a new stage of development of the centers will be implemented as part of the state program “Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation”.

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Rep. Panetta Reintroduces Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Spur Plant Biostimulant Research and Development

    Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif)

    Monterey, CA – United States Representatives Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and Jim Baird (IN-04) reintroduced the Plant Biostimulant Act.  This legislation would create a uniform federal definition for plant biostimulants, establish a consistent regulatory pathway to market, and promote additional research into the benefits of biostimulant products on soil health and crop production.  Currently, there is no clear or consistent federal framework to govern the use and approval of plant biostimulants, which creates uncertainty for producers and limits the adoption of these innovative tools.  The updated legislation would address this gap through federal guidance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).  Companion legislation was introduced in the Senate by Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Roger Marshall (R-KS).

    Plant biostimulants are substances or microorganisms applied to plants or soils to enhance natural processes, improve nutrient uptake, increase tolerance to environmental stress, and boost overall plant health and crop yield.  These products also show promise for improving sustainability through practices like carbon sequestration and water quality improvement.

    “The lack of a standard regulatory definition or pathway to market for plant biostimulants makes it harder for producers to access this sustainable and effective technology,” said Rep. Panetta.  “By reintroducing this bipartisan bill, we’re pushing for the clarity and federal coordination needed to encourage the adoption of biostimulants.  Increasing access to these products helps our farmers improve crop yields, protect our environment, and maintain U.S. leadership in sustainable agriculture.”

    “Our farmers and ranchers deserve a regulatory process that provides a clear path for their products to go to market, especially as new technologies become available for famers and producers to improve the efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of our agriculture industry,” said Rep. Baird.  “Biostimulants have the significant potential benefits for producers and their sustainability footprint.  Defining these products and creating a consistent process is an important step in giving farmers better access to plant biostimulants and other new technologies to ensure our agriculture sector can thrive.”

    “California’s agriculture industry is essential to our national economy and puts food on the table for families across the country,” said Senator Padilla.  “As we make our agriculture sector more sustainable, our evolving practices must be properly implemented to ensure their efficacy and safety.  Oversight and regulatory standards for plant biostimulants, which could replace or reduce the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, are critical to maintain California’s leadership at the forefront of this bio-based agricultural technology.”

    “Innovation is the cornerstone of American agriculture. By creating pathways to approve new agronomic tools like plant biostimulants, our nation’s farmers are able to produce more food with less crop protection tools and fertilizers,” said Senator Marshall.  “I am proud to lead this bipartisan effort with Senator Padilla and Representatives Baird and Panetta to help make the world cleaner, safer, and healthier than we found it.” 

    The Plant Biostimulant Act would:

    • Amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to define plant biostimulants;
    • Direct the EPA to revise the Code of Federal Regulations to reflect the new definition;
    • Require the USDA to study the contributions of plant biostimulants to soil health and sustainability.

    The Plant Biostimulant Act is endorsed by; Agriculture Retailers Association (ARA), American Seed Trade Association (ASTA), Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA), Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), Council of Producers and Distributors of Agrotechnology (CPDA), CropLife America (CLA), The Fertilizer Institute Biostimulant Council, Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA), Humic Products Trade Association (HPTA), International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment), Southern Crop Production Association (SCPA), and Western Growers.

    “Reintroducing the Plant Biostimulant Act is a vital step forward, and we applaud Representatives Jimmy Panetta and Jim Baird for their leadership,” said Keith Jones, Executive Director of the Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA).  “This bipartisan bill is critically important to the future of the biostimulant industry, as it will codify a federal definition for plant biostimulants and clarify the path to market for these innovative products.  By establishing a clear regulatory framework, the legislation will drive investment in U.S.-led agricultural innovation and enhance American competitiveness in the global biological marketplace.  BPIA looks forward to working with Congress to see this bill signed into law.”

    “The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) strongly supports the reintroduction of the Plant Biostimulants Act, and we thank Reps. Panetta and Baird for their continued bipartisan leadership on this important issue.  This crucial legislation will provide a clear regulatory pathway for innovative agricultural technologies, enhancing efficiency and productivity in American agriculture and ensuring food security for our nation.  By promoting plant biostimulants, we can improve soil health, water quality, and crop resilience, while also reducing farmers’ reliance on costly pesticides and fertilizers.  BIO is committed to advancing cutting-edge bio-based solutions for our farmers and plant producers, securing a productive yet sustainable future for our agricultural community and our planet,” said Sylvia Wulf, Interim Head of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) Ag & Environment Center of Excellence

    “The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) thanks Reps. Panetta and Baird for reintroducing this important legislation. This bill provides a critical definition for plant biostimulants which will help states establish a clear path to market for these important products and technologies, critical to a variety of growers,” said Corey Rosenbusch, President and CEO of the Fertilizer Institute.

    “CropLife America (CLA) appreciates Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) and Jim Baird (R-IN) for reintroducing the Plant Biostimulant Act.  By establishing a federal definition for plant biostimulants and clarifying their pathway to market, this legislation will facilitate farmers’ access to these innovative products and drive further research and development. CLA looks forward to working with Congress on this important legislation,” said Alexandra Dunn, President and CEO of CLA.  

    “I’d like to thank Congressmen Panetta and Baird for reintroducing the “Plant Biostimulant Act,” said Megan Provost, President of RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment). “Plant biostimulants help homeowners, landscape professionals and golf course superintendents provide healthy greenspaces that benefit us all. This legislation will help to clarify how they are defined and ensure access to these valuable products.”

    “The Humic Products Trade Association sincerely thanks Representatives Panetta and Baird for reintroducing the Plant Biostimulant Act,” said Russell Taylor, President, Humic Products Trade Association.  “This legislation updates FIFRA to match today’s reality: farmers need crop inputs that help build soil resilience, optimize nutrient use, and safeguard water. By defining plant biostimulants outside the pesticide framework, Congress will give states—and innovators—the regulatory clarity needed to foster this growing product category. HPTA supports this bill because it equips growers with modern, science-backed tools, which ultimately help deliver safe, sustainable food to consumers.”

    “I’d like to thank Congressmen Panetta and Baird for reintroducing the “Plant Biostimulant Act,” said Rhett Evans, CEO of the Golf Courses Superintendents Association of America.  “Plant biostimulants help golf course superintendents provide healthy greenspaces that benefit everyone.  This legislation will help ensure golf’s access to this valuable product.”

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Padilla, Marshall Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Spur Plant Biostimulant Research and Development

    US Senate News:

    Source: United States Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.)

    Padilla, Marshall Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Spur Plant Biostimulant Research and Development

    LOS ANGELES, CA — U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) introduced the Plant Biostimulant Act to create a uniform federal definition for plant biostimulants, establish a consistent regulatory pathway to market, and promote additional research into the benefits of biostimulant products on soil health and crop production. Plant biostimulants are substances or microorganisms applied to plants or soils to enhance natural processes, improve nutrient uptake, increase tolerance to environmental stress, and boost overall plant health and crop yield. These products also show promise for improving sustainability through practices like carbon sequestration and water quality improvement.
    Currently, there is no clear or consistent federal framework to govern the use and approval of plant biostimulants, which creates uncertainty for producers and limits the adoption of these innovative tools. The Plant Biostimulant Act would address this gap through federal guidance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.-19) and Jim Baird (R-Ind.-04) introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
    “California’s agriculture industry is essential to our national economy and puts food on the table for families across the country,” said Senator Padilla. “As we leverage innovation to make our agriculture sector more sustainable, our evolving practices must be properly implemented to ensure their efficacy and safety. Oversight and regulatory standards for plant biostimulants, which could replace or reduce the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, are critical to maintain California’s leadership at the forefront of this bio-based agricultural technology.”
    “Innovation is the cornerstone of American agriculture. By creating pathways to approve new agronomic tools like plant biostimulants, our nation’s farmers are able to produce more food with less crop protection tools and fertilizers,” said Senator Marshall. “I am proud to lead this bipartisan effort with Senator Padilla and Representatives Baird and Panetta to help make the world cleaner, safer, and healthier than we found it.” 
    “The lack of a standard regulatory definition or pathway to market for plant biostimulants makes it harder for producers to access this sustainable and effective technology,” said Representative Panetta. “By reintroducing this bipartisan bill, we’re pushing for the clarity and federal coordination needed to encourage the adoption of biostimulants. Increasing access to these products helps our farmers improve crop yields, protect our environment, and maintain U.S. leadership in sustainable agriculture.”
    “Our farmers and ranchers deserve a regulatory process that provides a clear path for their products to go to market, especially as new technologies become available for famers and producers to improve the efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of our agriculture industry,” said Representative Baird. “Biostimulants have the significant potential benefits for producers and their sustainability footprint. Defining these products and creating a consistent process is an important step in giving farmers better access to plant biostimulants and other new technologies to ensure our agriculture sector can thrive.”
    “The reintroduction of the Plant Biostimulant Act in the Senate is a pivotal step forward, and we commend Senators Roger Marshall and Alex Padilla for their leadership,” said Keith Jones, Executive Director of the Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA). “This bipartisan legislation provides much-needed regulatory clarity for plant biostimulants—ensuring a consistent federal definition and a predictable path to market for these innovative tools. By enabling greater investment in U.S. agricultural innovation, it strengthens our global competitiveness and supports long-term sustainability. BPIA stands ready to work with Congress, growers, and partners across the agricultural community to get this bill passed and deliver the solutions our farmers deserve.”
    Specifically, the Plant Biostimulant Act would:
    Amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to define plant biostimulants;
    Direct EPA to revise the Code of Federal Regulations to reflect the new definition;
    Require USDA to study the contributions of plant biostimulants to soil health and sustainability.
    Plant biostimulants are similar to probiotics or vitamins for plants which stimulate a plant’s natural processes to increase growth and optimize plant health, thereby reducing abiotic stress such as heat, salinity, floods, and drought. Plant biostimulants can provide environmental benefits by improving soil health, enhancing fertilizer efficiency, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The California Department of Food and Agriculture is a leader in the development of guidelines used to register plant biostimulant products, and the University of California, Davis has pioneered research on the efficacy of plant biostimulants for increasing drought resiliency in tomatoes, among other areas.
    The Plant Biostimulant Act is endorsed by the following groups: Agriculture Retailers Association (ARA), American Seed Trade Association (ASTA), Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA), Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), Council of Producers and Distributors of Agrotechnology (CPDA), CropLife America (CLA), The Fertilizer Institute Biostimulant Council, Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA), Humic Products Trade Association (HPTA), International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment), Southern Crop Production Association (SCPA), and Western Growers.
    Full text of the bill is available here.

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Senators Marshall and Padilla Introduce Bipartisan Plant Biostimulant Act to Advance Agricultural Innovation

    US Senate News:

    Source: United States Senator for Kansas Roger Marshall
    Washington – U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) joined U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-California) to introduce the Plant Biostimulant Act to establish a standardized process for approving the commercial use of plant biostimulants as alternatives to synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Plant biostimulants have demonstrated potential in advancing sustainable practices, including carbon sequestration and water quality enhancement. The legislation would also support research into the benefits of these technologies for soil health.
    “Innovation is the cornerstone of American agriculture, and creating pathways for new agronomic tools like plant biostimulants to be approved for use allows our nation’s farmers to produce more food with fewer crop protection tools and fertilizers,” said Senator Marshall. “I am proud to lead this bipartisan legislation alongside Senator Padilla as we work together to improve soil health.”
    “California’s agriculture industry is essential to our national economy and puts food on the table for families across the country,” said Senator Padilla. “As we make our agriculture sector more sustainable, our evolving practices must be properly implemented to ensure their efficacy and safety.  Oversight and regulatory standards for plant biostimulants, which could replace or reduce the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, are critical to maintain California’s leadership at the forefront of this bio-based agricultural technology.”
    Representatives Jim Baird (R-Indiana-4) and Jimmy Panetta (D-California-20) introduced the House companion bill.
    “Our farmers and ranchers deserve a regulatory process that provides a clear path for their products to go to market, especially as new technologies become available for farmers and producers to improve the efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of our agriculture industry,” said Representative Baird. “Biostimulants have significant potential benefits for producers and their sustainability footprint. Defining these products and creating a consistent process is an important step in giving farmers better access to plant biostimulants and other new technologies to ensure our agriculture sector can thrive.”
    “The lack of a standard regulatory definition or pathway to market for plant biostimulants makes it harder for producers to access this sustainable and effective technology,” said Representative Panetta.” By reintroducing this bipartisan bill, we’re pushing for the clarity and federal coordination needed to encourage the adoption of biostimulants. Increasing access to these products helps our farmers improve crop yields, protect our environment, and maintain U.S. leadership in sustainable agriculture.”
    The Plant Biostimulant Act is endorsed by Agriculture Retailers Association (ARA), American Seed Trade Association (ASTA), Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA), Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), Council of Producers and Distributors of Agrotechnology (CPDA), CropLife America (CLA), The Fertilizer Institute Biostimulant Council, Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA), Humic Products Trade Association (HPTA), International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment), Southern Crop Production Association (SCPA), and Western Growers.
    “We thank Senators Marshall and Padilla for championing the Plant Biostimulant Act,” said Russell Taylor, President, Humic Products Trade Association. “This essential bill provides a clear regulatory path for innovative products, including humic substances, that build soil resilience and optimize nutrient use. It delivers the certainty needed to advance science-backed tools for a more sustainable American food supply.
    “I’d like to thank Senators Marshall and Padilla for reintroducing the Plant Biostimulant Act,” said Megan Provost, President of Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment. “Plant biostimulants help homeowners, landscape professionals, and golf course superintendents provide healthy greenspaces that benefit us all. This legislation will help to clarify how they are defined and ensure access to these valuable products. We are excited to see bipartisan, bicameral legislation now gaining traction and hope for its inclusion in the upcoming Farm Bill.”
    “I’d like to thank Senators Marshall and Padilla for reintroducing the Plant Biostimulant Act,” said Rhett Evans, CEO of the Golf Courses Superintendents Association of America. ”Plant biostimulants help golf course superintendents provide healthy green spaces that benefit everyone.  This legislation will help ensure golf’s access to this valuable product.”
    “The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) thanks Senators Marshall and Padilla for reintroducing this important legislation. This bill provides a critical definition for plant biostimulants, which will help states establish a clear path to market for these important products and technologies, critical to a variety of growers,” said Corey Rosenbusch, President and CEO of the Fertilizer Institute.
    “The reintroduction of the Plant Biostimulant Act in the Senate is a pivotal step forward, and we commend Senators Roger Marshall and Alex Padilla for their leadership,” said Keith Jones, Executive Director of the Biological Products Industry Alliance. “This bipartisan legislation provides much-needed regulatory clarity for plant biostimulants – ensuring a consistent federal definition and a predictable path to market for these innovative tools. By enabling greater investment in U.S. agricultural innovation, it strengthens our global competitiveness and supports long-term sustainability. BPIA stands ready to work with Congress, growers, and partners across the agricultural community to get this bill passed and deliver the solutions our farmers deserve.”
    The full text of the legislation can be found HERE.

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  • MIL-OSI: Artel Launches Innovative SDI-Host SFP Module: an SDI-to-IP/Ethernet Gateway using SMPTE ST2110 or ST2022-6

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    Patton… Let’s Connect!

    HUDSON, Mass. and GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Artel Video—a brand of Patton and maker of Media Transport Products—announces the launch of the FL-ST2110-SFP, a Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) module designed for SDI media conversion and/or transport to IP using ST2110 or ST2022-6.

    Direct Plug-in. Artel’s new FiberLink SDI Video-to-ST2110/ST2022-6 Gateway SFP Module plugs directly into SDI-Host SFP slots. 

    IP Encapsulation. The module directly encapsulates and de-encapsulates SDI to Ethernet/SMPTE ST2110 for IP integration and media transport.

    Compact Design. The FL-ST2110-SFP features a compact design that allows seamless integration into existing infrastructures, facilitating the transition to IP-based workflows.

    Key features of the FL-ST2110-SFP include:

    • SFP plugs directly into SDI SFP Hosts for flexible deployment.
    • Compliance with SMPTE ST 2110 and ST2022-6 standards for professional media over managed IP networks.
    • Support for uncompressed video, audio, and ancillary data.
      Ultra-low latency for real-time applications.
    • “Clean Switch” feature facilitates switching between video sources without artifacts.
    • A “Frame Synch” feature enables PTP frame synchronization at the source or at the point of encapsulation.
    • High reliability and performance for mission-critical environments.


    First Move.     “The FL-ST2110-SFP is Patton’s ‘first-move’ since acquiring Artel and it represents a step towards Patton’s vision of an All-IP Media Broadcast network,” said Paul Seiden, Patton’s Sales Director for Media Transport Products. 

    “Patton seeks to help broadcasters modernize their infrastructure without compromising performance,” said Burton Patton, Patton Chief Revenue Officer. “This little SFP is one such help. There is much more to come.”

    The FL-ST2110-SFP is now available through Patton’s global network of distributors and resellers.

    For more information, visit https://www.patton.com/artel/fl-st2110-sfp/.

    In related news, Patton recently announced the new Tone Commander TC7910 secure SIP Phone that offers three switched gigabit Ethernet ports.

    About Patton

    Patton is a world-renowned manufacturer of networking and communications technology, offering a wide range of solutions including VoIP, Ethernet extension, wireless, and fiber optic products

    Let’s Connect!

    Media Contact: Glendon Flowers | +1 301 975 1000 | press@patton.com

    A video accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/4c54a74f-f3a5-4edf-9e6f-8d21b293297f

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Huizenga Leads 100+ Members of Congress in Bipartisan Effort to Save Family Farms, Enact H-2A Wage Freeze

    Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02)

    Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-MI) announced he was joined by over 100 of his colleagues on a letter recently sent to House Appropriations leaders requesting an H-2A visa guestworker wage freeze in upcoming appropriations legislation. This simple policy fix would lower input costs for the agricultural community and save family farms across the nation. The level of support for freezing the H-2A wage rate is significant because it is bipartisan and represents the majority of the House Republican Conference (111). Last Congress, Huizenga led the charge to help family farms and achieved a policy win in legislation that passed the House Appropriations Committee.

    The “Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR),” or the required wage that farm employers must pay H-2A workers, more than doubled since 2005, making agricultural labor and its products more unaffordable. With the nation’s average AEWR reaching $18.12/hr in 2025 (more than a 3% increase year over year) on top of other input costs including fuel, housing, and fertilizer also rising, many farms are in danger of going out of business. In Michigan, the AEWR is a steep $18.15/hr, while our Canadian neighbors pay their agricultural workers closer to $12/hr, or just a few dollars in Mexico. A temporary wage freeze is a reasonable way to alleviate this skyrocketing financial burden and give our farmers a chance to compete, stay in business, and put food on the table for millions of Americans and the world.

    A signed copy of the letter is available here.

    “In Michigan and across our nation, family farms are struggling due in part to soaring H2A labor costs,” said Congressman Bill Huizenga. “Washington should be working to help American farmers lower costs, not crushing them with outdated mandates that balloon their expenses and make it more difficult for these multigenerational farms to keep the lights on. I am proud to lead this bipartisan effort, which includes the majority of House Republicans, to provide the most immediate, practical, and agreed-upon way to enact relief and stop farms here in Michigan and around the country from shutting down their operations.”

    “I have met with fifth and sixth-generation Michigan farmers who are worried they will be the last in their families to farm unless the Labor Department ends the policies making it harder for them to do business. An AEWR freeze, like the one in my Supporting Farm Operations Act, is a common-sense solution widely supported by the agriculture community. Thank you to Congressman Huizenga for leading this letter with dozens of members supporting our efforts. As our state’s only member of the House Appropriations Committee, I will continue to fight for much-needed relief for farmers,” said Congressman John Moolenaar.

    “Michigan farmers are beginning another season filled with the hope of delivering safe, plentiful, and affordable crops for consumers. Nonetheless, the farm families and agricultural guest workers crucial for cultivating these crops find themselves in uncertainty due to unsustainable adverse effect wage rates. It is essential for farmers and workers to have a dependable and sensible method for calculating this mandated wage. The Michigan Farm Bureau commends Congressman Huizenga and Congresswoman Scholten for spearheading this effort, alongside many of their colleagues, to instigate necessary changes that will offer relief to America’s farm families,” said Matt Smego, Director of Public Policy & Commodity Division, Michigan Farm Bureau.

    “Representative Bill Huizenga refuses to turn his back on Michigan and US vegetable and fruit growers.  The AEWR must be paused to continue domestic vegetable and fruit production.  The H-2A guest worker program functions pretty well, but the mandated AEWR no longer functions as envisioned.  There is not enough of a domestic workforce left for the AEWR to prevent guest workers taking employment opportunities from the domestic workforce,” said Greg Bird, Executive Director of Michigan’s Vegetable Council.

    “The bipartisan effort to freeze H-2A wages for farmworkers is encouraging to the Michigan Apple industry, with lawmakers from both parties showing an understanding of the unsustainable increases in costs to growers, as well as support for producers of food here in our state and across the country,” said Diane Smith of the Michigan Apple Association. “With labor costs accounting for approximately 56 percent of total production expenses for Michigan Apple growers, the Adverse Effect Wage Rate increases over the last 10 years threaten to put growers out of business.  Most apple growers are losing money at this point – more than $1,800 per acre, as production costs continue to rise. We are so grateful for the continued support of the Michigan congress members, Representative Huizenga and Representative Scholten, who co-lead the effort, as well as other Michigan congress members from both sides of the aisle who have supported agriculture.”

    “Michigan asparagus growers are facing a breaking point under the weight of the skyrocketing Adverse Effect Wage Rate,” said Jamie Clover Adams, CEO of the Michigan Asparagus Association. “Labor already accounts for nearly 60% of our growers’ total costs, and wage hikes—disconnected from market realities—are putting multi-generational family farms and rural economies at risk. We deeply appreciate Congressman Huizenga’s leadership in rallying bipartisan support for an H-2A wage freeze and urge Congress to act swiftly to support farms that grow hand-harvested fruits and vegetables.”

    “An H-2A wage freeze provides cost predictability for our farmers, allowing them to budget and manage labor resources while ensuring they can continue to employ the necessary labor force for crop planting and harvest while a more permanent solution is investigated,” said Kelly Turner, Ed.D, CAE. Manager, Potato Growers of Michigan.

    “Input costs, including labor, continue to rise as farm families struggle in this troubling farm economy. Without immediate action, these conditions threaten the livelihoods of farmers and their employees. Thankfully, members of Congress are willing to support critical relief until durable reforms are achieved. We are grateful for the consistent leadership of Rep. Huizenga and this bipartisan group of legislators who are standing against the status quo.” John Walt Boatright, American Farm Bureau Federation Director of Government Affairs

    “AmericanHort commends Reps. Bill Huizenga (R-MI-04), for leading this bipartisan letter with over 100 Members of Congress requesting to freeze the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR),” said Ken Fisher, President and CEO, AmericanHort. “As labor and affiliated costs continue to put pressure on our growers and the horticulture industry, placing a freeze on the AEWR will ease the high cost of labor and aid growers in planning for the future.”

    “International Fresh Produce Association members need Congress to rise to the occasion to prevent crippling cost increases that will put farms out of business and Congressman Bill Huizenga is leading the charge to do just that. By addressing the single biggest complaint from H-2A program users – uncontrollable wage labor costs – Congressman Huizenga’s bipartisan appropriations language will provide the relief we need today, while we work together to seek broader program reforms.” Rebeckah Adcock, Vice President, US Government Relations, International Fresh Produce Association

    “Congress’ failure to modernize the H-2A visa program has led to unsustainable, perpetual annual wage increases that are driving American farmers out of business,” said Kasey Cronquist, president of the North American Blueberry Council. “Congressman Huizenga’s bipartisan effort to pause the Adverse Effect Wage Rate is more critical than ever. On behalf of the many blueberry growers across the country who rely on the H-2A program to harvest their crops, we thank every member of Congress who is standing up for American farmers by supporting this appropriations request,” said Kasey Cronquist, President of The North American Blueberry Council (NABC).

    “We greatly appreciate Rep. Huizenga for leading this bipartisan effort to address the single biggest challenge facing apple growers nationwide. The unsustainable cost of the H-2A program is forcing multi-generational family farms to question whether they can keep going, let alone pass their operations on to the next generation. We urge Congress to enact this freeze and pursue common-sense H-2A reforms so we can continue supplying the world with America’s favorite fruit.” Jim Bair, President & CEO, U.S. Apple Association

    “Out of control AEWR increases have made it nearly impossible for custom harvesters to afford the labor necessary to meet the harvest needs of our farmer customers across the country.  Congress needs to act to provide H-2A wage relief as soon as possible,” said Paul Paplow, President U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc.

    “Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) thanks Congressman Bill Huizenga for working in a bipartisan fashion to raise concerns on the skyrocketing Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) and its impacts on hardworking farm and ranch families,” said TFB President Russell Boening. “While TFB readily recognizes the need for comprehensive long-term H-2A labor reform, a freeze on the AEWR will provide critical short-term relief. If action is not taken, many farmers and ranchers will be forced out of business, putting our national food security at severe risk. We thank all the members of Congress who signed the letter and recognize the direness of the situation. TFB looks forward to our continued work with Congress on agricultural labor reform.”

    Joining Congressman Huizenga on the letter are Representatives: Hillary Scholten (D-MI)[Co-Lead], Rick Crawford (R-AR)[Co-Lead], Patrick Ryan (D-NY)[Co-Lead], Rick Allen (R-GA), Don Bacon (R-NE), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Andy Barr (R-KY), Tom Barrett (R-MI), Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), Cliff Bentz (R-OR), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Sheri Biggs (R-SC), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mike Bost (R-IL), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Earl Carter (R-GA), Michael Cloud (R-TX), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Mike Collins (R-GA), James Comer (R-KY), Monica De La Cruz (R-TX), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Gabe Evans (R-CO), Mike Ezell (R-MS), Pat Fallon (R-TX), Julie Fedorchak (R-ND), Randy Feenstra (R-IA), Brad Finstad (R-MN), Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), Russell Fry (R-SC), Russ Fulcher (R-ID), Craig Goldman (R-TX), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), Pat Harrigan (R-NC), Mark Harris (R-MD), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Kevin Hern (R-OK), Clay Higgins (R-LA), J. Hill (R-AR), Erin Houchin (R-IN), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Jeff Hurd (R-CO), Brian Jack (R-KY), Ronny Jackson (R-TX), John James (R-MI), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), John Joyce (R-PA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Trent Kelly (R-MS), Mike Kennedy (R-UT), Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA), Brad Knott (R-NC), David Kustoff (R-TN), Darin LaHood (R-IL), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), Robert Latta (R-OH), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Laurel Lee (R-FL), Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Frank Lucas (R-OK), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Nancy Mace (R-SC), John Mannion (D-NY), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Addison McDowell (R-NC), John McGuire (R-VA), Mark Messmer (R-IN), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Mary Miller (R-IL), Max Miller (R-OH), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Cory Mills (R-FL), Barry Moore (R-AL), Blake Moore (R-UT), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), Gregory Murphy (R-NC), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Zachary Nunn (R-IA), Gary Palmer (R-AL), August Pfluger (R-TX), Josh Riley (D-NY), Mike Rogers (R-AL), John Rose (R-TN), David Rouzer (R-NC), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Austin Scott (R-GA), Keith Self (R-TX), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Jefferson Shreve (R-IN), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), W. Steube (R-FL), Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), William Timmons (R-SC), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Randy Weber (R-TX), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Roger Williams (R-TX), Joe Wilson (R-SC), and Rudy Yakym (R-IN).

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Isabelle’s Kitchen Inc. Recalls Refrigerated Deli Salads Containing Fresh Cucumbers Because of Possible Health Risk

    Source: US Department of Health and Human Services – 3

    Summary

    Company Announcement Date:
    May 28, 2025
    FDA Publish Date:
    May 29, 2025
    Product Type:
    Food & BeveragesFoodborne Illness
    Reason for Announcement:

    Recall Reason Description
    Potential to be contaminated with Salmonella

    Company Name:
    Isabelle’s Kitchen, Inc.
    Brand Name:

    Brand Name(s)
    Kings, Isabelle’s Kitchen Inc., Maple Avenue Foods

    Product Description:

    Product Description
    Salads containing fresh cucumbers.

    Company Announcement
    Isabelle’s Kitchen, Inc., Harleysville, PA, is recalling 946 cases of refrigerated deli salads containing fresh cucumbers recalled by Bedner Grower’s, Inc. because they have potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis, and arthritis.
    The recalled refrigerated deli salads were sold to foodservice distributors in the following states: New Hampshire, Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia and local supermarkets. Any repacked items sold at the supermarket level may not carry the same sell by date as identified on the original package, but would not exceed the original manufacture sell by date.
    The product is packed in a white plastic container inside a white or brown corrugated box under the brand names “Isabelle’s Kitchen,” “Maple Avenue Foods,” or “Kings.” Recalled product is identified by the Item Number located on the top right of the white product label, and by the Julian code date located on the right side of the “Use-By” sticker.
    Example of a Use By sticker: (See Image Below)
    The following table identifies the item name, manufacture date and use by date:

    Item #4605 Kings

    Kings Greek Pasta Salad

    Mfg date Julian code 134

    Use by: June 1, 2025

    Item #5002B

    IKI Greek Pasta Salad

    Mfg date Julian code 134

    Use by: June 1, 2025

    Item #5002B

    IKI Greek Pasta Salad

    Mfg date Julian code 135

    Use by: June 2, 2025

    Item #5007B

    MAF Mediterranean Pasta Salad

    Mfg date Julian code 134

    Use by: May 30, 2025

    Item #5007B

    MAF Mediterranean Pasta Salad

    Mfg date Julian code 134

    Use by: May 31, 2025

    Item #8015B

    MAF Crunchy Wheatberry Salad

    Mfg date Julian code 134

    Use by: June 1, 2025

    Item #8031

    MAF Quinoa Tabouli

    Mfg date Julian code 134

    Use by: May 30, 2025

    Item #8031

    MAF Quinoa Tabouli

    Mfg date Julian code 135

    Use by: May 31, 2025

    Item #8103KT

    Powerhouse Wheatberry Salad Kit

    Mfg date Julian code 134

    Use by: May 27, 2025

    Item #8103KT

    Powerhouse Wheatberry Salad Kit

    Mfg date Julian code 135

    Use by: May 28, 2025

    Item #8103KT

    Powerhouse Wheatberry Salad Kit

    Mfg date Julian code 136

    Use by: May 29, 2025

    Only products listed above with the indicated Julian codes dates are being recalled. No other items manufactured by Isabelle’s Kitchen, Inc. are impacted by this recall.
    No known illnesses have been associated with the recalled products to date. All raw cucumbers are washed & treated as a processing step.
    Our firm was notified by our produce supplier that seven (7) cases of raw whole cucumbers received by Isabelle’s Kitchen are being recalled by Bedner Growers, Inc. (https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/bedner-growers-inc-recalls-cucumbers-because-possible-health-risk) and have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. These recalled cucumbers were processed and used in production on May 14 and May 15, 2025.
    All distributors and customers have been notified of the recall. They have been instructed to cease sale/distribution of the recalled products, to remove recalled products from store shelves and/or warehouse locations, to destroy recalled products, and to notify consumers that were sold/may have been sold these recalled products.
    Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume the products and to immediately discard any uneaten recalled product or return to the store for a refund. Consumers who have purchased the recalled products may obtain additional information by contacting Isabelle’s Kitchen, Inc. at 800-355-7252 (8AM to 5PM EST). Consumers with health concerns should consult directly with their health care providers.
    Isabelle’s Kitchen, Inc. is conducting this recall in coordination with the FDA.
    Link to FDA Outbreak Advisory

    Company Contact Information

    Consumers:
    Isabelle’s Kitchen, Inc.
    800-355-7252

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    Content current as of:
    05/29/2025

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  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Over £7.4 million put back in working people’s pockets by employers

    Source: United Kingdom – Government Statements

    Press release

    Over £7.4 million put back in working people’s pockets by employers

    Employers who have left workers over £7.4 million out of pocket by failing to pay the National Living and National Minimum Wage named.

    • More money put into the pockets of hardworking people, as government delivers the biggest upgrade to worker’s rights in a generation, as part of the Plan for Change
    • Workers will be paid over £7.4 million by employers after nearly 60,000 workers have been left out of pocket.
    • Action builds on recent uplift to the National Living and National Minimum Wage which puts £1,400 into the pockets of workers and families across the UK

    Nearly 60,000 workers who have been left out of pocket will be repaid over £7.4 million the Government has announced today [Thursday 29th May] in its latest move to Make Work Pay.

    This follows a significant uplift to the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage – putting £1,400 into the pockets of full-time workers on NLW and supporting millions of families across the country – as well as the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation under the Employment Rights Bill.

    As part of the Plan for Change, this Government’s priority is to grow the economy and raise living standards. A strong economy can only be built when people have financial security whilst in work and robust enforcement action will be taken against employers who do not pay their staff correctly.

    The 518 employers and businesses named today have since paid back what they owe to their staff and faced financial penalties of up to 200% of their underpayment. The investigations by His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) concluded between 2015-2022.

    Minister for Employment Rights, Justin Madders said:

    There is no excuse for employers to undercut their workers, and we will continue to name companies who break the law and don’t pay their employees what they are owed.

    Ensuring workers have the support they need and making sure they receive a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work is a key commitment in our Plan for Change. This will put more money in working people’s pockets, helping to boost productivity and ending low pay.

    Baroness Philippa Stroud, Chair of the Low Pay Commission, said:

    We welcome today’s publication. Underpayment leaves workers out of pocket and disadvantages the majority of employers who do abide by the rules.

    These naming rounds play an important part in ensuring that all workers receive their full wages and that they are aware there is support for them to ensure that they do.

    Putting more money into the pockets of the lowest paid increases workers’ financial security, offers stability to help increase staff retention and lowers recruitment costs for businesses in the long run.  Whilst not all minimum wage underpayments are intentional, the Government is clear that enforcement action will be taken against employers who do not pay their staff correctly.

    Ahead of permanently lowering tax rates for high street retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) from 2026/27, we have prevented the current RHL relief from ending this April, extending it for one year to ensure that over 250,000 RHL properties see a full 40 per cent reduction on their liability, and we have frozen the small business multiplier. 

    Notes to Editors:

    • If workers suspect they are being underpaid, they can visit gov.uk/checkyourpay to find out more about what they can do.
    • Workers can also call the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100 or visit their website for free, impartial and confidential advice or complain to HMRC at Pay and work rights helpline and complaints
    • The minimum wage law applies to all parts of the UK.
    • Employers should always carry out the necessary checks – see the guidance: Calculating the Minimum Wage
    • HMRC consider all complaints from workers, so workers are being reminded to check their pay with advice available through the Check your pay website
    • National Living Wage and National Minimum wage rates:
    2024 rate 2025 rate
    National Living Wage (21 and over) £11.44 £12.21
    18 to 20 £8.60 £10.00
    Under 18 £6.40 £7.55
    Apprentice £6.40 £7.55
    1. Capita Business Services Ltd, City of London, EC2V, failed to pay £1,154,461.97 to 5,543 workers.
    2. Pizzaexpress (Restaurants) Limited, Croydon, CR0, failed to pay £760,701.61 to 8,470 workers.        
    3. Virtual Marketing Services (Gibraltar) Ltd, Birmingham, B3, failed to pay £478,282.71 to 41 workers.        
    4. L. Rowland & Company (Retail) Limited , Runcorn, WA7, failed to pay £307,342.87 to 2,293 workers.        
    5. Templar Corporation Limited, Lewisham, SE16, failed to pay £298,143.12 to 26 workers.        
    6. Lidl Great Britain Limited, Merton, SW19, failed to pay £286,437.18 to 3,423 workers.        
    7. British Airways PLC, Harmondsworth, UB7, failed to pay £231,276.10 to 2,165 workers.        
    8. Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Limited, Newbridge, EH28, failed to pay £186,883.56 to 1,795 workers.        
    9. Interserve (Facilities Management) Ltd, Lambeth, SE1, failed to pay £177,268.08 to 2,297 workers.        
    10. Prezzo Limited, Woodford Green, IG8, failed to pay £163,702.67 to 2,550 workers.        
    11. Halfords Ltd, Redditch, B98, failed to pay £140,829.79 to 4,341 workers.        
    12. The Southern Co-Operative Limited , Portsmouth, PO6, failed to pay £126,739.33 to 2,300 workers.        
    13. TUI UK Retail Limited, Luton, LU2, failed to pay £107,611.04 to 2,044 workers.        
    14. Heart Of England Co-Operative Society Limited, Coventry, CV6, failed to pay £90,870.95 to 1,017 workers.        
    15. CDS (Superstores International) Limited, Plymouth, PL6, failed to pay £89,158.47 to 1,648 workers.        
    16. Day Lewis PLC, Croydon, CR0, failed to pay £82,819.47 to 604 workers.        
    17. Petrogas Group UK Limited, Ampthill, MK45, failed to pay £63,026.69 to 602 workers.        
    18. Mr Guiseppe Caruso , London, W2, failed to pay £59,780.03 to 2 workers.        
    19. William Strike Limited, Carlisle, CA6, failed to pay £56,657.01 to 798 workers.        
    20. Property Management Services (NI) Limited, Belfast, BT3, failed to pay £54,852.44 to 414 workers.        
    21. Coghlan Lodges Limited, Uxbridge, UB8, failed to pay £52,062.45 to 45 workers.        
    22. Ant Marketing Limited, Sheffield, S2, failed to pay £46,260.65 to 340 workers.        
    23. Maclean Services (L) Limited, London, W2, failed to pay £43,583.26 to 781 workers.        
    24. ABM Aviation UK Limited, Hounslow, TW6, failed to pay £40,243.10 to 880 workers.        
    25. Malvern Tyres (Wholesale) Limited, Gloucester, GL1, failed to pay £39,012.15 to 158 workers.        
    26. Halfords Autocentres Limited, Redditch, B98, failed to pay £38,470.94 to 760 workers.        
    27. J M McGill Ltd, Doncaster, DN4, failed to pay £38,178.62 to 364 workers.        
    28. R.T. Stuart Limited, Methil, KY8, failed to pay £37,384.89 to 310 workers.        
    29. Deluxe Beds Ltd, Huddersfield, HD2, failed to pay £27,233.68 to 64 workers.        
    30. Freedom Hotels West Limited, Nr Fort William, PH49, failed to pay £26,814.06 to 37 workers.        
    31. Mytime Active, Orpington, BR6, failed to pay £26,414.51 to 414 workers.        
    32. Parkdean Resorts UK Limited, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12, failed to pay £26,360.91 to 291 workers.        
    33. Whitakers Chocolates Limited, Skipton, BD23, failed to pay £26,183.83 to 141 workers.        
    34. Suttons Tankers Limited, Widnes, WA8, failed to pay £25,631.33 to 35 workers.        
    35. Health Care Resourcing Group Limited, Prescot, L34, failed to pay £25,344.45 to 86 workers.        
    36. Veecare Ltd, Loughton, IG10, failed to pay £23,567.49 to 168 workers.        
    37. Meridian Marlow Ltd, Marlow, SL7, failed to pay £22,993.97 to 66 workers.        
    38. Managing Care Limited, Croydon, CR9, failed to pay £21,834.52 to 83 workers.        
    39. Mr Sri Krishna Ratnasinkam and Mrs Saraswathy Ratnasinkam , Ringmer, BN8, failed to pay £20,504.98 to 1 worker.        
    40. M Buckingham & Company Limited        
    , Maulden, MK45, failed to pay £20,361.01 to 3 workers.        
    41. Regency Hotel (Northern Ireland) Limited, Belfast, BT3, failed to pay £19,952.21 to 201 workers.        
    42. Baxters Food Group Limited, Fochabers, IV32, failed to pay £19,765.00 to 62 workers.        
    43. Thrive Childcare and Education Limited, Musselburgh, EH21, failed to pay £19,420.47 to 24 workers.        
    44. Hillgate Investments Limited, Rotherhithe , SE16, failed to pay £19,358.74 to 40 workers.        
    45. Hilton UK Hotels Limited, Watford, WD24, failed to pay £18,924.07 to 20 workers.        
    46. Oscar Mayer Limited, Chard, TA20, failed to pay £18,830.92 to 172 workers.        
    47. BA Cityflyer Limited, West Drayton, UB7, failed to pay £17,988.39 to 102 workers.        
    48. Crystal Property Cleaning Ltd, Twickenham, TW2, failed to pay £17,767.18 to 1 worker.        
    49. Key Care And Support Ltd, Manchester, M34, failed to pay £17,649.66 to 189 workers.        
    50. Sean Elliott, Ballymena, BT42, failed to pay £17,518.00 to 1 worker.        
    51. YTC Limited, Driffield, YO25, failed to pay £17,194.32 to 226 workers.        
    52. Virtual Marketing Services (Gibraltar) Ltd, Gibraltar, GX11, failed to pay £17,155.36 to 1 worker.        
    53. Wargrave Auto Centre Limited , Hounslow, TW5, failed to pay £17,114.70 to 37 workers.        
    54. Lawrence Davis Design Limited, Stoke On Trent, ST1, failed to pay £16,936.97 to 2 workers.        
    55. BJ Bright Day Nurseries Limited, Doncaster, DN5, failed to pay £16,759.85 to 19 workers.        
    56. Thorntons Limited, Alfreton, DE55, failed to pay £16,449.00 to 444 workers.        
    57. 24/7 Security and Events Ltd, Driffield, YO25, failed to pay £15,962.00 to 74 workers.        
    58. Winemark The Winemerchants Limited, Belfast, BT3, failed to pay £15,738.33 to 186 workers.        
    59. Anochrome Limited, Walsall, WS2, failed to pay £15,600.86 to 49 workers.        
    60. Allen Day Associates Limited, Bidwell, LU5, failed to pay £15,525.26 to 387 workers.        
    61. Equitas Solicitors Limited, Preston, PR2, failed to pay £15,412.15 to 72 workers.        
    62. Kingwood Limited, Wokingham, RG40, failed to pay £15,090.99 to 1 worker.        
    63. The Eastbury (Sherbourne) Limited, Sherborne, DT9, failed to pay £14,813.03 to 7 workers.        
    64. Elmoreton Limited, Belfast, BT7, failed to pay £14,782.81 to 391 workers.        
    65. Elliott Baxter & Company Limited , Farnborough, GU12, failed to pay £14,411.44 to 43 workers.        
    66. MA Bureau Limited, Croydon, CR0, failed to pay £13,226.91 to 6 workers.        
    67. Moto Hospitality Limited, Toddington, LU5, failed to pay £13,164.96 to 734 workers.        
    68. Slo Drinks Limited, Stockport, SK3, failed to pay £12,716.05 to 1 worker.        
    69. The Crown Hotel (Colne) Limited, Colne, BB8, failed to pay £12,642.18 to 2 workers.        
    70. EA Coaching Ltd, Birmingham, B34, failed to pay £12,378.25 to 18 workers.        
    71. Hydes’ Brewery Limited, Salford, M50, failed to pay £12,281.18 to 176 workers.        
    72. Elior UK PLC, Macclesfield, SK11, failed to pay £12,198.61 to 496 workers.        
    73. Savoy Tyres Limited, Kingston Upon Hull, HU8, failed to pay £11,921.60 to 6 workers.        
    74. PK Sales & Lettings Ltd, Greenwich, SE18, failed to pay £11,885.46 to 5 workers.        
    75. Quokka Solutions Ltd, Sunderland , SR5, failed to pay £11,605.84 to 15 workers.        
    76. Elix-Irr Consulting Services Limited, London, EC2V, failed to pay £11,101.13 to 21 workers.        
    77. Go To The Venue Limited, Oswestry, SY11, failed to pay £10,974.19 to 21 workers.        
    78. JWDW Limited, Doncaster, DN4, failed to pay £10,699.64 to 21 workers.        
    79. Mr Stuart Benson, Heywood, OL10, failed to pay £10,600.34 to 1 worker.        
    80. Philip Russell Limited, Belfast, BT6, failed to pay £10,507.58 to 111 workers.        
    81. Energy Kidz Ltd, Wokingham , RG41, failed to pay £10,479.36 to 199 workers.        
    82. ABC Pre-School Limited, Culcheth, WA3, failed to pay £10,393.39 to 16 workers.        
    83. YAM 110 Limited, Bradford, BD8, failed to pay £10,021.48 to 22 workers.        
    84. Lord Charles P Courtenay, Kenton, EX6, failed to pay £9,930.78 to 1 worker.        
    85. React Homecare Ltd, Mansfield, NG21, failed to pay £9,907.42 to 127 workers.        
    86. Lutonestateandlettings Ltd, Luton, LU3, failed to pay £9,887.66 to 4 workers.        
    87. Jill Birt, Bolton, BL5, failed to pay £9,819.79 to 3 workers.        
    88. The House That Jack Built (Day Nursery) Limited, Marlow, SL7, failed to pay £9,810.00 to 8 workers.        
    89. IWE Services Limited, Staxton, YO12, failed to pay £9,803.34 to 3 workers.        
    90. At Home – Specialists in Care Ltd, Pocklington, YO42, failed to pay £9,737.27 to 26 workers.        
    91. Mr Albert Cepa, Chesterfield, S40, failed to pay £9,677.33 to 4 workers.        
    92. Top Gas Heating & Plumbing Limited, Bristol, BS15, failed to pay £9,675.90 to 4 workers.        
    93. Brookfield Retail Ltd, Dewsbury, WF12, failed to pay £9,544.19 to 52 workers.        
    94. Clock House Farm Limited, Maidstone, ME17, failed to pay £9,384.53 to 69 workers.        
    95. Panic Deliveries Limited, Oldbury , B69, failed to pay £9,362.96 to 29 workers.        
    96. Steve Kane Painting & Decorating Limited, Doncaster, DN3, failed to pay £9,317.13 to 11 workers.        
    97. Wine Inns Limited, Belfast, BT3, failed to pay £9,295.35 to 103 workers.        
    98. SOS Homecare Ltd, Stretford, M32, failed to pay £9,186.36 to 293 workers.        
    99. Parkway Derby Limited, Derby, DE24, failed to pay £9,083.64 to 11 workers.        
    100. Lashes Nails and Brows Ltd, Thornton Heath, CR7, failed to pay £9,074.84 to 3 workers.        
    101. Mrs Carol Olsen , Bedlington, NE22, failed to pay £8,988.13 to 25 workers.        
    102. Teddy Bear Nursery Limited, Rochdale, OL16, failed to pay £8,982.22 to 32 workers.        
    103. R.H. Wilson (Chemists) Limited, Blackburn, BB1, failed to pay £8,925.53 to 11 workers.        
    104. Mr James Westcott, Newport, PO30, failed to pay £8,587.49 to 33 workers.        
    105. Mr Orhan Esen, Dumfries, DG1, failed to pay £8,513.17 to 5 workers.        
    106. Waterloo and Taunton Conservative Club, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL7, failed to pay £8,468.51 to 3 workers.        
    107. Aramark Limited, Leeds, LS16, failed to pay £8,407.77 to 154 workers.        
    108. Mr Mario Wood, Stalybridge, SK15, failed to pay £8,040.26 to 3 workers.        
    109. Mr Paul S Clerehugh T/A , Henley-On-Thames, RG9, failed to pay £8,029.07 to 20 workers.        
    110. Waggon & Horses (Matley) Ltd, Stalybridge, SK15, failed to pay £8,016.08 to 57 workers.        
    111. Rice Solutions Limited, Southport, PR8, failed to pay £7,921.26 to 2 workers.        
    112. UK Hairdressers 2019 Limited, Birmingham, B16, failed to pay £7,870.93 to 13 workers.        
    113. LIBERTY MUSIC PR LTD, Brighton, BN1, failed to pay £7,663.84 to 3 workers.        
    114. Turkuaz Limited, Cheadle, SK8, failed to pay £7,655.93 to 3 workers.        
    115. Belgravia Mews Hotel Limited, South Kensington, SW5, failed to pay £7,646.84 to 14 workers.        
    116. Start Afresh Cleaning Limited, Ipswich, IP1, failed to pay £7,630.05 to 15 workers.        
    117. Mr Atul Patel & Mr Bhikhubhai Patel, Northampton, NN5, failed to pay £7,386.13 to 1 worker.        
    118. K J Curson Growers Limited, Wisbech, PE14, failed to pay £7,311.72 to 11 workers.        
    119. Artico Limited, Monmouth, NP25, failed to pay £7,306.40 to 1 worker.        
    120. Tristan HCW Ltd, Bedford, MK41, failed to pay £7,227.75 to 7 workers.        
    121. Mainstage Festivals Limited, Southwark, SE1, failed to pay £7,089.61 to 4 workers.        
    122. Talash Limited, CV32, failed to pay £7,053.17 to 53 workers.        
    123. J D Wetherspoon Plc, Watford , WD24, failed to pay £7,000.00 to 282 workers.        
    124. Aroma Expresso Bar Limited, London, NW4, failed to pay £6,967.02 to 2 workers.        
    125. Lymedale Motors Limited, Newcastle Under Lyme, ST5, failed to pay £6,859.90 to 3 workers.        
    126. Golders Green Hairdressing Limited, Finchley, NW11, failed to pay £6,846.53 to 10 workers.        
    127. Head Office Hair and Beauty (Scotland) Ltd., Glasgow, G61, failed to pay £6,803.01 to 2 workers.        
    128. The Stair Arms Hotel Ltd, Pathhead, EH37, failed to pay £6,787.54 to 1 worker.        
    129. Springfields Supported Services Limited, Barking, IG11, failed to pay £6,693.35 to 19 workers.        
    130. Network Tyre & Auto Limited, Dartford, DA1, failed to pay £6,529.19 to 7 workers.        
    131. Specialist Computer Centres Plc, Birmingham, B11, failed to pay £6,491.66 to 28 workers.        
    132. Treetops Childrens Nursery Ltd, Blackpool, FY2, failed to pay £6,450.52 to 45 workers.        
    133. McDonald & Munro Limited, Elgin, IV30, failed to pay £6,436.10 to 2 workers.        
    134. Suez Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd, Maidenhead, SL6, failed to pay £6,387.96 to 47 workers.        
    135. Woodhall Capital Limited, London, EC4N, failed to pay £6,294.25 to 1 worker.        
    136. Mr Steven Prested, Meadowfield, DH7, failed to pay £6,207.12 to 1 worker.        
    137. Best Social Enterprise Ltd, London, SE1, failed to pay £6,171.64 to 10 workers.        
    138. The Buck House Limited, Wrexham, LL13, failed to pay £6,101.67 to 1 worker.        
    139. Mahmoud Shaduman Ali , Derby , DE23, failed to pay £6,091.90 to 6 workers.        
    140. Get Your Mobi Limited, Lancaster, LA1, failed to pay £6,069.51 to 8 workers.        
    141. Robertson Facilities Management Limited, Elgin, IV30, failed to pay £5,864.37 to 51 workers.        
    142. Orion Group London Limited, Wandsworth, SW18, failed to pay £5,818.69 to 1 worker.        
    143. Dee Kay Knitwear Ltd, Leicester, LE4, failed to pay £5,801.65 to 38 workers.        
    144. Miss J J Smart, Southampton, SO31, failed to pay £5,778.65 to 1 worker.        
    145. Zhanna Horn, Torquay, TQ2, failed to pay £5,749.66 to 2 workers.        
    146. The Fernlea Hotel Limited, Lytham St Annes, FY8, failed to pay £5,698.56 to 4 workers.        
    147. Gogo and Fried Chicken Limited, Coventry, CV1, failed to pay £5,665.58 to 9 workers.        
    148. Chess People Limited, Alderley Edge, SK9, failed to pay £5,629.12 to 1 worker.        
    149. Building Blocks Day Nursery (NI) Ltd, Toome, BT41, failed to pay £5,576.45 to 45 workers.        
    150. Mr Christopher Owston, North Shields, NE29, failed to pay £5,571.27 to 1 worker.        
    151. LJ Care Homes Ltd, Lincoln, LN4, failed to pay £5,568.84 to 56 workers.        
    152. Crossgates Stop N Shop Ltd, Leeds, LS15, failed to pay £5,545.63 to 4 workers.        
    153. BLFL Services Ltd, Burnham on Crouch, CM0, failed to pay £5,496.06 to 3 workers.        
    154. Mr Nigel Ian Fisher, Romsey, SO51, failed to pay £5,442.49 to 1 worker.        
    155. Mr Mathew James Hicks, Whitchurch, RG28, failed to pay £5,439.43 to 3 workers.        
    156. Old Town Car Wash Ltd, Hastings, TN35, failed to pay £5,422.92 to 5 workers.        
    157. London Street Brasserie Limited, Reading, RG1, failed to pay £5,343.77 to 13 workers.        
    158. Coton Care Limited, Wolverhampton, WV4, failed to pay £5,342.58 to 47 workers.        
    159. Epilepsy Society, Chalfont St Peter, SL9, failed to pay £5,293.99 to 1 worker.        
    160. Premier Work Support Limited, Chatham, ME4, failed to pay £5,272.92 to 428 workers.        
    161. Power Leisure Bookmakers Limited, Hammersmith, W6, failed to pay £5,245.57 to 257 workers.        
    162. Star Lite Jobs Limited, Ilford, IG1, failed to pay £5,237.44 to 67 workers.        
    163. Vivienne Westwood Limited, Wandsworth, SW11, failed to pay £5,232.00 to 1 worker.        
    164. A.P.C. Panels Ltd, Barry, CF63, failed to pay £5,220.60 to 7 workers.        
    165. Ghani Systems Ltd, Glasgow, G42, failed to pay £5,209.68 to 15 workers.        
    166. Taylor Dental Laboratory Limited, Leicester, LE5, failed to pay £5,189.75 to 1 worker.        
    167. MEDS2U Limited, Barnsley, S73, failed to pay £5,057.78 to 8 workers.        
    168. Total Cleaning South Limited, Manston, CT12, failed to pay £5,054.94 to 218 workers.        
    169. Decorative Panels Furniture Limited , Elland, HX5, failed to pay £5,045.43 to 62 workers.        
    170. Supercar Italia Ltd, Westerham, TN16, failed to pay £4,997.94 to 1 worker.        
    171. Miss Gemma Tattersall, Horsham, RH13, failed to pay £4,886.88 to 3 workers.        
    172. Mr Muhammed Afzal Jabarkhail , Clydebank, G81, failed to pay £4,873.12 to 1 worker.        
    173. Mr Shamim Ahmed, Braunton, EX33, failed to pay £4,867.46 to 1 worker.        
    174. Canei International Limited, Nottingham, NG10, failed to pay £4,752.20 to 1 worker.        
    175. Kitty Café Leeds Limited, Leeds, LS1, failed to pay £4,745.99 to 10 workers.        
    176. DES Healthcare Limited, Lincoln, LN5, failed to pay £4,634.94 to 36 workers.        
    177. Lakeside Day Nursery Limited , Swansea, SA6, failed to pay £4,631.93 to 3 workers.        
    178. Zayani Limited, West Drayton, UB7, failed to pay £4,593.39 to 2 workers.        
    179. Eaton Electrical Systems Limited, Doncaster, DN2, failed to pay £4,576.09 to 24 workers.        
    180. Mr Fadhil Omar Ibrahim , Ripley, DE5, failed to pay £4,482.40 to 5 workers.        
    181. Central Garage (Chesham) Ltd, Hyde Heath, HP6, failed to pay £4,416.25 to 1 worker.        
    182. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, SW7, failed to pay £4,372.16 to 1 worker.        
    183. Penrhyn Inns Limited, Oldham, OL4, failed to pay £4,324.94 to 33 workers.        
    184. Everest Hotels Limited, Powys, NP8, failed to pay £4,274.77 to 4 workers.        
    185. Coastal Heating Ltd, Sheringham, NR26, failed to pay £4,267.76 to 1 worker.        
    186. UK Solutions Limited, Chelmsford, CM1, failed to pay £4,267.22 to 28 workers.        
    187. NEO Property Solutions Limited, Leeds, LS9, failed to pay £4,263.52 to 16 workers.        
    188. Mountford House Nursery Limited, Nottingham, NG5, failed to pay £4,195.32 to 1 worker.        
    189. Major Cleaning Services Limited, Potters Bar, EN6, failed to pay £4,194.74 to 25 workers.        
    190. Witham Valeting Ltd, Witham , CM8, failed to pay £4,166.48 to 8 workers.        
    191. Parsons Bakery Limited, Bristol, BS3, failed to pay £4,134.64 to 44 workers.        
    192. Mr Amir Rasool, Langholm, DG13, failed to pay £4,083.79 to 1 worker.        
    193. Grosvenor Concierge Limited  (previously GCS Facility Services Limited), Skegness, PE25, failed to pay £4,056.99 to 120 workers.        
    194. Industrial Cleaning Services (UK) Ltd, Camden, WC1N, failed to pay £4,048.91 to 41 workers.        
    195. Spring Cleaning Services Limited, Cheltenham, GL51, failed to pay £3,989.71 to 16 workers.        
    196. Sunlit Ltd, Lewisham, SE6, failed to pay £3,973.49 to 4 workers.        
    197. Blink Productions Limited, Holloway, N7, failed to pay £3,910.06 to 4 workers.        
    198. DSM Joinery Contractors Limited, Dunfermline, KY11, failed to pay £3,905.50 to 2 workers.        
    199. Fashion Fabric Transprinters Limited, Leicester, LE4, failed to pay £3,779.70 to 2 workers.        
    200. Mrs Imogen Katherine Wyvill, Mr Marmaduke D’Arcy William Wyvill and Mr Marmaduke Charles Astey Wyvill, Leyburn, DL8, failed to pay £3,724.37 to 16 workers.        
    201. Mrs Nalani Carr, Haverhill, CB9, failed to pay £3,702.83 to 1 worker.        
    202. Temple Farm Limited, Ramsgate, CT11, failed to pay £3,696.54 to 57 workers.        
    203. Walker Outboard Services Limited, Reading, RG4, failed to pay £3,647.76 to 1 worker.        
    204. Shah Foods Ltd, Newham, E16, failed to pay £3,638.69 to 2 workers.        
    205. City Office (NI) Ltd, Belfast, BT12, failed to pay £3,622.46 to 2 workers.        
    206. Ms Stacey Baker, Doune, FK16, failed to pay £3,582.87 to 1 worker.        
    207. Joarr Hot Food Emporium Limited, Southport, PR9, failed to pay £3,564.00 to 1 worker.        
    208. St John’s Road Garage Limited, Dartford, DA2, failed to pay £3,525.63 to 1 worker.        
    209. Alanya Catering Ltd, Nottingham, NG1, failed to pay £3,489.42 to 7 workers.        
    210. Care Direct Group Limited, Eastbourne, BN21, failed to pay £3,484.98 to 35 workers.        
    211. Baudelaire Limited, Alresford , SO24, failed to pay £3,454.06 to 1 worker.        
    212. House Of Glamour Limited, East Dulwich, SE22, failed to pay £3,433.06 to 1 worker.        
    213. Oshibori Scotland Ltd, Dundee, DD1, failed to pay £3,328.44 to 5 workers.        
    214. Yatab Company Ltd, Rainham, RM13, failed to pay £3,292.77 to 7 workers.        
    215. Cheeky Monkey Day Nurseries Limited, Birmingham, B15, failed to pay £3,272.93 to 22 workers.        
    216. S & W Developments Limited, Doncaster, DN5, failed to pay £3,253.46 to 1 worker.        
    217. The Lady Cleaner Ltd, Eastbourne, BN23, failed to pay £3,233.28 to 26 workers.        
    218. Mi Casa Care Ltd, Mansfield, NG19, failed to pay £3,221.07 to 23 workers.        
    219. SNC-LAVALIN RAIL & TRANSIT LIMITED, Epsom, KT18, failed to pay £3,212.78 to 11 workers.        
    220. Little Flowers Limited, Renfrew, PA4, failed to pay £3,162.05 to 1 worker.        
    221. Little Ducklings Day Nursery (Garstang) Limited, Preston, PR3, failed to pay £3,157.18 to 1 worker.        
    222. Fresh 75 Limited, Newport, PO30, failed to pay £3,132.90 to 1 worker.        
    223. Excel Parking Services Limited, Sheffield, S9, failed to pay £3,124.95 to 14 workers.        
    224. Mr Simon Foster and Mrs Jane Foster, Skipton, BD23, failed to pay £3,124.66 to 1 worker.        
    225. Mr Daniel Jenkinson , Preston, PR1, failed to pay £3,104.72 to 1 worker.        
    226. Spanners & Sparks (EK) Limited, Glasgow, G75, failed to pay £3,093.15 to 5 workers.        
    227. Central Electrical Contracts Limited, Wolverhampton, WV6, failed to pay £3,086.28 to 5 workers.        
    228. Branded Housewares Limited, Wolverhampton, WV2, failed to pay £3,066.72 to 4 workers.        
    229. Valerie Anne Sheen , Honiton, EX14, failed to pay £3,057.10 to 18 workers.        
    230. Rosebridge Private Day Nursery Limited, Wigan, WN1, failed to pay £3,056.94 to 19 workers.        
    231. Elite Motors Bodyshop Limited, Northampton, NN5, failed to pay £3,055.68 to 8 workers.        
    232. Roux Waterside Inn Limited, Bray, SL6, failed to pay £3,022.52 to 19 workers.        
    233. P.B Services (Wales) Limited, Mountain Ash, CF45, failed to pay £3,008.30 to 2 workers.        
    234. Lostock Hall Academy Trust, Preston, PR5, failed to pay £2,993.98 to 2 workers.        
    235. Taylor Shaw Limited, Macclesfield, SK11, failed to pay £2,958.43 to 2 workers.        
    236. Sage Hair Care (Salons) Limited, Cardiff, CF5, failed to pay £2,938.09 to 3 workers.        
    237. Mr Andrew Petrou, Walworth, SE17, failed to pay £2,907.33 to 1 worker.        
    238. Crystal Car Wash and Valeting Ltd, Loughborough, LE11, failed to pay £2,852.00 to 1 worker.        
    239. KEYSIGNS LIMITED, Bellshill, ML4, failed to pay £2,851.78 to 4 workers.        
    240. Centerplate UK Limited, Camden, WC1B, failed to pay £2,829.64 to 167 workers.        
    241. MN Support Services Limited, Queens Park, W10, failed to pay £2,829.17 to 294 workers.        
    242. Kirklees Active Leisure , Huddersfield, HD1, failed to pay £2,821.46 to 18 workers.        
    243. Marsden Healthcare Limited, Nelson, BB9, failed to pay £2,811.05 to 22 workers.        
    244. Mrs Michelle S Chandler, Birmingham, B44, failed to pay £2,806.72 to 2 workers.        
    245. Jamie Stevens (Kensington) Ltd, Kensington, W8, failed to pay £2,779.88 to 2 workers.        
    246. Filco Supermarkets Limited, Llantwit Major, CF61, failed to pay £2,772.41 to 118 workers.        
    247. AFH Ltd, Cardiff, CF24, failed to pay £2,771.99 to 4 workers.        
    248. Ms Philippa Funnell, Dorking, RH5, failed to pay £2,746.65 to 2 workers.        
    249. Kids at Heart (Harrogate) Limited, Knaresborough, HG5, failed to pay £2,746.08 to 3 workers.        
    250. Sparkle Cleaning Co. (London) Limited, Croydon, CR5, failed to pay £2,732.94 to 25 workers.        
    251. Lexington Catering Limited, Camden, EC4N, failed to pay £2,714.52 to 64 workers.        
    252. What A Hoot Day Nursery Limited, Blyth, NE24, failed to pay £2,712.53 to 4 workers.        
    253. Mr Andy B Fitzsimmons, Mr Ford B Fitzsimmons and Mrs Theresa G Fitzsimmons, Kilwinning, KA13, failed to pay £2,694.78 to 15 workers.        
    254. QSO Ltd, Leeds, LS4, failed to pay £2,675.41 to 10 workers.        
    255. Parkers Pets Limited, Southsea, PO5, failed to pay £2,665.49 to 2 workers.        
    256. Kazoku Restaurant Group Ltd, Sevenoaks, TN13, failed to pay £2,665.15 to 1 worker.        
    257. Madames Hair & Beauty Limited, Swindon, SN3, failed to pay £2,656.41 to 1 worker.        
    258. Acerta Group Limited , Warwick, CV34, failed to pay £2,629.00 to 13 workers.        
    259. London Auto Parts Limited, Wembley, HA0, failed to pay £2,622.17 to 2 workers.        
    260. Killan Structural Limited, Oldham, OL3, failed to pay £2,620.45 to 2 workers.        
    261. Sandersons (N.W.) Ltd, Blackpool, FY4, failed to pay £2,603.82 to 3 workers.        
    262. A & K Home Care Services Ltd, Napton, CV47, failed to pay £2,603.14 to 78 workers.        
    263. Chaplins Hotel Limited, Blackpool, FY1, failed to pay £2,586.56 to 2 workers.        
    264. Calmac Developments Limited, Dumfries, DG2, failed to pay £2,583.77 to 17 workers.        
    265. La Reserve Aparthotel (Manchester) Limited, Manchester, M1, failed to pay £2,567.66 to 13 workers.        
    266. Ultimate Stores Limited, London, NW1, failed to pay £2,560.34 to 4 workers.        
    267. Drayton Manor Resort Limited, Tamworth, B78, failed to pay £2,559.58 to 25 workers.        
    268. Community Foundation, Birmingham, B19, failed to pay £2,500.24 to 2 workers.        
    269. D and G Pub Company Limited, Darlington, DL3, failed to pay £2,498.17 to 35 workers.        
    270. Poplars Blossoms Nursery School Limited, Nottingham, NG5, failed to pay £2,494.39 to 1 worker.        
    271. Vonsung Limited, Islington, EC1Y, failed to pay £2,485.20 to 1 worker.        
    272. Cornish Premier Pasties Limited, Newquay, TR9, failed to pay £2,467.45 to 53 workers.        
    273. The Clansmans Rest Ltd, Glasgow, G40, failed to pay £2,417.22 to 3 workers.        
    274. Natural Care 53 Limited, Manchester, M12, failed to pay £2,412.03 to 1 worker.        
    275. TKE Landscaping Ltd, Wendens Ambo, CB11, failed to pay £2,403.16 to 3 workers.        
    276. Mockingbird Lane Ltd, Glasgow, G11, failed to pay £2,387.07 to 1 worker.        
    277. Mr Patrick G Neilan, Glasgow, G43, failed to pay £2,383.29 to 2 workers.        
    278. Brean Leisure Park Ltd, Berrow, Burnham-on-Sea, TA8, failed to pay £2,371.57 to 12 workers.        
    279. Davidsons Plumbing & Heating Limited , Bristol, BS5, failed to pay £2,349.54 to 4 workers.        
    280. Motor Body Centre Limited, Birmingham, B18, failed to pay £2,346.49 to 1 worker.        
    281. S & S Care (UK) Limited, Caergwrle, LL12, failed to pay £2,340.72 to 49 workers.        
    282. Kelton Nursery, Liverpool, L18, failed to pay £2,334.79 to 10 workers.        
    283. Asset India Limited, Harrow, HA1, failed to pay £2,334.54 to 2 workers.        
    284. Safegas UK Ltd, Swinton, M27, failed to pay £2,277.54 to 1 worker.        
    285. Mert GB 2 Limited, East Ham, E6, failed to pay £2,261.38 to 1 worker.        
    286. Hallwell Projects Ltd, Plymouth, PL1, failed to pay £2,211.32 to 3 workers.        
    287. Mr Andrew Roy Milward, Pembroke Dock, SA72, failed to pay £2,205.31 to 1 worker.        
    288. R & R Retail UK Limited, Luton, LU4, failed to pay £2,201.05 to 16 workers.        
    289. Salon IPS Ltd, Ipswich, IP4, failed to pay £2,189.12 to 1 worker.        
    290. Mr Narinder Kumar Nar, Birmingham, B18, failed to pay £2,173.86 to 2 workers.        
    291. Old Mill Holiday Park Limited, St Helens, PO33, failed to pay £2,172.06 to 1 worker.        
    292. Ms Caroline Wright, Birmingham, B43, failed to pay £2,170.63 to 1 worker.        
    293. Dolphin Care (IOW) Limited, Wroxall Ventnor, PO38, failed to pay £2,155.09 to 6 workers.        
    294. Whistledown Inn Limited, Newry, BT34, failed to pay £2,154.29 to 46 workers.        
    295. Renegade Hair Studio Limited, Leeds, LS2, failed to pay £2,148.74 to 1 worker.        
    296. Lethendy Cheltenham Limited, Cheltenham, GL53, failed to pay £2,144.90 to 44 workers.        
    297. Heminstone Estates Limited, Colchester, CO2, failed to pay £2,137.35 to 10 workers.        
    298. S Leicester Ltd, Leicester, LE5, failed to pay £2,127.17 to 38 workers.        
    299. GB Vape Limited, Heckmondwike, WF16, failed to pay £2,119.82 to 7 workers.        
    300. P McCarthy Limited, Brandon, IP27, failed to pay £2,108.75 to 9 workers.        
    301. K. Foley Limited, Great Blakenham, NR2, failed to pay £2,104.81 to 94 workers.        
    302. AGL Attractions Limited , Burnham-On-Sea, TA8, failed to pay £2,090.06 to 24 workers.        
    303. Techlogico Limited, Knottingley, WF11, failed to pay £2,056.43 to 6 workers.        
    304. Mr Iain Stewart Matheson, Paisley, PA1, failed to pay £2,036.50 to 6 workers.        
    305. GLASGOW WATERLOO LIMITED, Glasgow, G2, failed to pay £2,020.36 to 41 workers.        
    306. R J Ferguson Company Limited, Stewartstown, BT71, failed to pay £2,014.04 to 3 workers.        
    307. Ms Susan Meheux, Southampton, SO31, failed to pay £2,008.66 to 12 workers.        
    308. Mr David Odudu, Sheffield, S9, failed to pay £1,992.53 to 1 worker.        
    309. Mr Hazar Ibrahim Hamid, Doncaster, DN5, failed to pay £1,961.64 to 5 workers.        
    310. M&C Jones Building Contractors Limited, Rhyl, LL18, failed to pay £1,954.46 to 2 workers.        
    311. Hi-Spec Facilities Services Ltd, Dartford, DA2, failed to pay £1,938.75 to 96 workers.        
    312. Calibre Building & Decorating Services Limited, Lichfield, WS13, failed to pay £1,937.89 to 1 worker.        
    313. CPM Electrical Ltd, Omagh, BT79, failed to pay £1,937.71 to 4 workers.        
    314. Ashbrook Roofing & Supplies Limited, Nr Matlock, DE4, failed to pay £1,912.65 to 5 workers.        
    315. Mr Thomas Hutchison, Prestonpans, EH32, failed to pay £1,901.44 to 1 worker.        
    316. Mr Khalid Javid, Chester, CH2, failed to pay £1,891.42 to 1 worker.        
    317. South Golden Mountain Limited, Eastbourne, BN21, failed to pay £1,888.52 to 1 worker.        
    318. Oldbury Grange Nursing Home Ltd, Nuneaton, CV10, failed to pay £1,878.02 to 65 workers.        
    319. OC Electric Limited, Benton, NE12, failed to pay £1,869.32 to 1 worker.        
    320. Seagrave Decorations Limited, Kettering, NN16, failed to pay £1,847.76 to 4 workers.        
    321. Little Angels Fun Club and Nursery Limited, Bedlington, NE22, failed to pay £1,832.96 to 92 workers.        
    322. GAPJ Ivinghoe Ltd, Leighton Buzzard, LU7, failed to pay £1,828.25 to 5 workers.        
    323. Vapour C Co Ltd, Gillingham, ME7, failed to pay £1,822.57 to 2 workers.        
    324. Wide Range Services Limited, Hull, HU12, failed to pay £1,816.72 to 1 worker.        
    325. Hughes (Family Bakers) Holdings Limited, Bradford, BD18, failed to pay £1,811.57 to 26 workers.        
    326. A W Pettitt Limited, Windermere, LA23, failed to pay £1,810.90 to 5 workers.        
    327. Smartway Holding Limited, Holloway, N7, failed to pay £1,800.00 to 1 worker.        
    328. Beaux Health and Wellbeing Ltd, Taunton, TA1, failed to pay £1,791.96 to 1 worker.        
    329. Saggiomo Luxury Foods Limited, Croydon, CR0, failed to pay £1,787.60 to 1 worker.        
    330. John Clark (Holdings) Limited , Aberdeen, AB12, failed to pay £1,785.63 to 5 workers.        
    331. Swiftclean (UK) Limited, Southend-on-Sea, SS2, failed to pay £1,761.48 to 5 workers.        
    332. Reachout Healthcare Limited, Stockport, SK5, failed to pay £1,757.42 to 31 workers.        
    333. Mr Ian T Henderson, Accrington, BB5, failed to pay £1,740.90 to 2 workers.        
    334. Clarke Group Construction Limited, Wyberton, PE21, failed to pay £1,736.49 to 1 worker.        
    335. MRB Cleaning Limited, Swansea, SA1, failed to pay £1,733.88 to 1 worker.        
    336. Mr John Fulton Allen & Mr John Gary King,  Strabane, BT82, failed to pay £1,725.59 to 1 worker.        
    337. Belmont Hotel (Leicester) Limited, Leicester, LE1, failed to pay £1,710.28 to 36 workers.        
    338. Mini Me Private Day Nursery Limited, Newport, NP19, failed to pay £1,708.33 to 15 workers.        
    339. Glow Trade Ltd, Leicester, LE5, failed to pay £1,706.46 to 20 workers.        
    340. Mr Jason Hearn, Taunton, TA1, failed to pay £1,706.12 to 2 workers.        
    341. Country Park Leisure Limited, Hessle, HU13, failed to pay £1,705.13 to 13 workers.        
    342. C & C Precision Engineering Services Limited, Rowley Regis, B65, failed to pay £1,704.30 to 1 worker.        
    343. Karen Jeffrey , Wishaw, ML2, failed to pay £1,683.58 to 4 workers.        
    344. DNA Cleaning Solutions Limited, Twickenham, TW2, failed to pay £1,670.29 to 25 workers.        
    345. Assured Care (Stockport) Ltd., Stockport, SK1, failed to pay £1,666.57 to 79 workers.        
    346. Graylaw International Freight Group Ltd, Skelmersdale, WN8, failed to pay £1,663.46 to 7 workers.        
    347. SPI Trading Limited, Lisburn , BT28, failed to pay £1,656.74 to 3 workers.        
    348. Executive Hire Ltd., Glasgow, G74, failed to pay £1,650.54 to 3 workers.        
    349. Accelerate Cleaning Solutions Ltd, Ipswich, IP7, failed to pay £1,650.38 to 106 workers.        
    350. LGH Plumbing & Heating Services Limited, Leigh, WN7, failed to pay £1,624.77 to 1 worker.        
    351. Samuel Eales Silverware Limited, Sheffield, S3, failed to pay £1,619.79 to 1 worker.        
    352. High Grove Beds Limited, Liversedge, WF15, failed to pay £1,610.43 to 8 workers.        
    353. Shakes n Cakes Aberdeen Ltd, Aberdeen, AB24, failed to pay £1,597.98 to 1 worker.        
    354. Bespoke Cuisine Ltd, Bethnal Green, EC1V, failed to pay £1,587.04 to 1 worker.        
    355. Mascallkelly Limited, Cleveland, TS12, failed to pay £1,576.59 to 19 workers.        
    356. Sher Gill Enterprises Limited, Dunoon, PA23, failed to pay £1,557.58 to 1 worker.        
    357. Ms Hiromi Sato, London, SW4, failed to pay £1,551.71 to 2 workers.        
    358. R.Loughlin Electrical Services Ltd, Castlederg, BT81, failed to pay £1,542.58 to 3 workers.        
    359. Papermoon Nurseries (Boultham Park) Limited, Lincoln, LN6, failed to pay £1,535.25 to 11 workers.        
    360. SB Rom Food Center Ltd, Hounslow, TW3, failed to pay £1,533.80 to 9 workers.        
    361. Mr Robert Pontefract, Stamford, PE9, failed to pay £1,531.55 to 1 worker.        
    362. Grant Leisure Group Limited, Blackpool, FY3, failed to pay £1,495.62 to 15 workers.        
    363. Everbright Lodge Ltd, Llangollen, LL20, failed to pay £1,475.07 to 25 workers.        
    364. Biscuit Clothing Ltd, Edinburgh, EH10, failed to pay £1,469.89 to 1 worker.        
    365. Brockencote Hall Hotel Limited, Leamington Spa, CV33, failed to pay £1,468.25 to 19 workers.        
    366. Mr Francis Joseph McParland and Mr Peter Liam McParland , Armagh, BT61, failed to pay £1,466.04 to 4 workers.        
    367. Colemans Garden Centre Ltd, Templepatrick, BT39, failed to pay £1,450.11 to 35 workers.        
    368. Southcoast Homecare Ltd, Chichester, PO19, failed to pay £1,438.93 to 9 workers.        
    369. Booth & Stirland Limited, Ripley, DE5, failed to pay £1,434.97 to 3 workers.        
    370. Grieve Decor Limited, Berwick Upon Tweed, TD15, failed to pay £1,415.11 to 2 workers.        
    371. Barry Tyre Centre Limited, Barry, CF63, failed to pay £1,408.88 to 1 worker.        
    372. Piddle Brewery Limited, Dorchester, DT2, failed to pay £1,407.79 to 1 worker.        
    373. Forseti Law Ltd, Bolton, BL1, failed to pay £1,403.87 to 1 worker.        
    374. Wash Me Clean Ltd, Bracknell, RG12, failed to pay £1,400.27 to 1 worker.        
    375. Colonnade (Operator) Limited, Little Venice, W9, failed to pay £1,385.11 to 1 worker.        
    376. Mario Gianni Limited, Stockport, SK7, failed to pay £1,378.94 to 3 workers.        
    377. Moyo’s Brothers Limited, Brighton, BN1, failed to pay £1,373.14 to 2 workers.        
    378. Atticus Cleaning Services Limited, Altrincham, WA14, failed to pay £1,364.89 to 1 worker.        
    379. Mrs Jane Boome and Miss Verity Jane Boome, Peterborough, PE7, failed to pay £1,360.84 to 13 workers.        
    380. Get Grip Auto Ltd, Cheltenham, GL53, failed to pay £1,348.25 to 2 workers.        
    381. Downs Holdings Limited, Yarm, TS15, failed to pay £1,339.48 to 8 workers.        
    382. Direct Cleaning Services (Oxford) Limited, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22, failed to pay £1,323.74 to 1 worker.        
    383. Viv Designs Ltd, Gravesend, DA12, failed to pay £1,317.95 to 1 worker.        
    384. Sycamore Farm Park Limited, Skegness, PE24, failed to pay £1,311.54 to 2 workers.        
    385. SMK Building & Joinery Contractors Ltd, Todmorden, OL14, failed to pay £1,297.16 to 1 worker.        
    386. Richard Tate Limited, Leeds, LS10, failed to pay £1,294.02 to 1 worker.        
    387. JDP Hotels Ltd, Wakefield, WF2, failed to pay £1,289.98 to 34 workers.        
    388. Miss Abby Fox, Widnes, WA8, failed to pay £1,270.35 to 10 workers.        
    389. Polish Village Bakery Ltd, Manchester , M17, failed to pay £1,267.37 to 43 workers.        
    390. ENERGY DUNDEE 4 U LTD , Dundee, DD4, failed to pay £1,263.65 to 15 workers.        
    391. Synvestment Ltd, High Wycombe, HP12, failed to pay £1,262.39 to 2 workers.        
    392. Peony Culture Communication Limited, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1, failed to pay £1,247.02 to 1 worker.        
    393. Easy Clean Contractors Limited, Peterborough, PE7, failed to pay £1,246.92 to 125 workers.        
    394. R Binks Construction Limited, Bolton, BL2, failed to pay £1,244.33 to 3 workers.        
    395. Mrs Julie Shaw, Knaresborough, HG5, failed to pay £1,231.68 to 20 workers.        
    396. Mrs Karaimjit Gill, Barry, CF63, failed to pay £1,230.73 to 1 worker.        
    397. Mcaleer & McGarrity Ltd, Cookstown, BT80, failed to pay £1,207.77 to 2 workers.        
    398. M.P.M Consumer Products Limited, Manchester, M11, failed to pay £1,205.73 to 32 workers.        
    399. K.L.N. Limited , Brent, NW6, failed to pay £1,203.83 to 2 workers.        
    400. GMD SERVICES LIMITED, Kingston Upon Hull, HU3, failed to pay £1,193.24 to 2 workers.        
    401. C.V.East Ltd, Colchester , CO1, failed to pay £1,185.68 to 7 workers.        
    402. Mr Jonathan Hope and Mr Charlie Hope, Slough, SL3, failed to pay £1,183.12 to 3 workers.        
    403. Belshaw Bookkeeping Services Limited, Bacup, OL13, failed to pay £1,179.76 to 1 worker.        
    404. D Allen Transport Limited, St Helens, WA9, failed to pay £1,178.73 to 4 workers.        
    405. Mrs S & Mr G Clough, Bradford, BD12, failed to pay £1,162.79 to 1 worker.        
    406. Golden Cue Snooker Club Limited, Bilston, WV14, failed to pay £1,147.43 to 1 worker.        
    407. South Wales Building and Construction Limited, Newport, NP11, failed to pay £1,135.47 to 2 workers.        
    408. Form Communal Maintenance Limited, Hartford, CW8, failed to pay £1,131.97 to 1 worker.        
    409. SMS Bars Limited, Stockport, SK1, failed to pay £1,115.11 to 2 workers.        
    410. Grace Construction and Management Ltd, Derby, DE1, failed to pay £1,113.49 to 1 worker.        
    411. Alveston House Hotel Limited, Thornbury, BS35, failed to pay £1,109.12 to 1 worker.        
    412. Mrs Pearl Moore, Blackpool, FY4, failed to pay £1,094.75 to 3 workers.        
    413. Think Wraps Ltd, Poole, BH12, failed to pay £1,053.08 to 1 worker.        
    414. Telebizz Ltd, Plymouth, PL7, failed to pay £1,048.56 to 72 workers.        
    415. Hill Top Day Nursery Limited, Swadlincote, DE12, failed to pay £1,041.04 to 2 workers.        
    416. W. Corbett & Co. (Galvanizing) Limited, Telford, TF7, failed to pay £1,039.53 to 36 workers.        
    417. Autocare (Benfleet) Limited, Stanford-Le-Hope, SS17, failed to pay £1,032.23 to 2 workers.        
    418. Pork Farms Limited, Nottingham, NG2, failed to pay £1,029.77 to 9 workers.        
    419. Galdin Limited, Hackney, N1, failed to pay £1,024.50 to 5 workers.        
    420. Trinity Park Nursery Ltd, Craigavon, BT67, failed to pay £1,020.97 to 17 workers.        
    421. Mr Thanabalasingam Ketheeswarathas and Mrs Sivasuki Ketheeswarathas, Ipswich, IP2, failed to pay £1,006.83 to 2 workers.        
    422. G P H Carpentry Limited, Newquay, TR8, failed to pay £1,003.04 to 2 workers.        
    423. Euro Car Wash (South East) Limited, Greenwich, SE7, failed to pay £992.56 to 3 workers.        
    424. Mrs Melanie Elizabet Brown, Kirkcaldy, KY1, failed to pay £986.58 to 1 worker.        
    425. A O Hand Car Wash & Valeting Ltd, Peckham, SE15, failed to pay £982.62 to 3 workers.        
    426. Dash-Cae Limited, Oxford, OX14, failed to pay £976.19 to 1 worker.        
    427. Janette Allen Limited, Braintree, CM77, failed to pay £976.18 to 1 worker.        
    428. Ms Sarah Balfour, York, YO10, failed to pay £967.87 to 1 worker.        
    429. Allied Industrial Products Limited, Salford, M5, failed to pay £955.78 to 1 worker.        
    430. Cummins Ltd, Darlington, DL1, failed to pay £954.04 to 11 workers.        
    431. Ramsbottom Cricket Club, Bury, BL0, failed to pay £931.67 to 2 workers.        
    432. Soughton Shoot Limited, Northop, Mold,, CH7, failed to pay £927.24 to 1 worker.        
    433. Mrs Penni Durdy, Doncaster, DN9, failed to pay £924.04 to 1 worker.        
    434. Friends Care Agency Limited, Sandy, SG19, failed to pay £923.84 to 20 workers.        
    435. French Connection UK Limited, Camden, NW1, failed to pay £917.95 to 57 workers.        
    436. Precision Workwear Limited, Stamford, PE9, failed to pay £916.35 to 1 worker.        
    437. Joinex Joinery Express Limited, Brentford, TW8, failed to pay £882.61 to 12 workers.        
    438. Yorkcloud Limited, Ulverston, LA12, failed to pay £872.20 to 2 workers.        
    439. KR Scotland Ltd, Edinburgh, EH3, failed to pay £849.21 to 3 workers.        
    440. The KLE (Berwick) Group Ltd, Berwick Upon Tweed, TD15, failed to pay £838.48 to 2 workers.        
    441. Zig Zag Day Nursery Limited, Peterborough, PE1, failed to pay £827.98 to 21 workers.        
    442. Birdies Day Nursery Limited, Lisburn, BT28, failed to pay £821.32 to 8 workers.        
    443. Sooty Olive Ltd, Waterside, BT47, failed to pay £819.24 to 33 workers.        
    444. Bright Bees Nursery Ltd, Leicester, LE4, failed to pay £817.06 to 1 worker.        
    445. What The Fish Limited, Richmond upon Thames, SW14, failed to pay £801.08 to 1 worker.        
    446. SFC (Edmonton) Limited, Enfield, N9, failed to pay £798.22 to 2 workers.        
    447. Fairytales Day Nursery Limited, Dudley, DY2, failed to pay £793.38 to 7 workers.        
    448. R.G.R. Garages (Cranfield) Limited, Bedford, MK43, failed to pay £791.65 to 1 worker.        
    449. Mad Goose Catering Limited, Ellington, PE28, failed to pay £788.54 to 3 workers.        
    450. Mr Grzegorz Biezunski, Trowbridge, BA14, failed to pay £787.80 to 1 worker.        
    451. Futurerate Limited, Loughborough, LE12, failed to pay £787.20 to 1 worker.        
    452. Kids Korner Day Nurseries Ltd, Belfast, BT6, failed to pay £779.81 to 23 workers.        
    453. Inter County Cleaning Services Limited, Rushden, NN10, failed to pay £754.38 to 106 workers.        
    454. Spring Clean Commercial Ltd, Norwich, NR16, failed to pay £753.17 to 107 workers.        
    455. Clean Living Services Limited, Lambeth, SW8, failed to pay £749.48 to 16 workers.        
    456. Le Petit Francais Ltd, Edinburgh, EH6, failed to pay £744.52 to 10 workers.        
    457. Playworks Childcare Limited, Caerphilly, CF83, failed to pay £743.64 to 5 workers.        
    458. Wickhambrook Stores Limited, Newmarket, CB8, failed to pay £729.88 to 1 worker.        
    459. Rothco Independent Mortgages Ltd, Alnwick, NE66, failed to pay £729.83 to 1 worker.        
    460. James David Segal, Hull, HU1, failed to pay £729.22 to 6 workers.        
    461. Daniel Thwaites Public Limited Company, Blackburn, BB2, failed to pay £724.73 to 23 workers.        
    462. HRUK Group of Companies Ltd, Leeds, LS8, failed to pay £719.11 to 1 worker.        
    463. Historic Hotels & Properties Ltd, Scarborough, YO11, failed to pay £707.11 to 5 workers.        
    464. Penge Car Care ltd, Croydon, SE25, failed to pay £682.48 to 2 workers.        
    465. Craig Gordon Building Services Ltd, Edinburgh, EH11, failed to pay £680.17 to 1 worker.        
    466. Mountview Hotels Ltd, Callander, FK17, failed to pay £672.60 to 1 worker.        
    467. Paragon Quality Foods Ltd, Doncaster, DN3, failed to pay £670.56 to 21 workers.        
    468. Core Electrical Solutions Ltd, Beckenham, BR3, failed to pay £658.78 to 2 workers.        
    469. Snacks Van Ltd, Watford, WD25, failed to pay £658.20 to 1 worker.        
    470. MacDonald Hotels (Management) Limited, Bathgate, EH48, failed to pay £648.78 to 1 worker.        
    471. Kelly Teggin Hairdressing Ltd, Knaresborough, HG5, failed to pay £647.19 to 1 worker.        
    472. Safe Gas (N.I.) Limited, Newtonabbey, BT36, failed to pay £639.10 to 1 worker.        
    473. Harrison Wade Ltd, Manchester, M1, failed to pay £636.04 to 2 workers.        
    474. Spectrum Energy Guard Ltd, Bournemouth, BH1, failed to pay £621.72 to 1 worker.        
    475. Gastronomy Foods UK Limited, Shrewsbury, SY1, failed to pay £618.76 to 51 workers.        
    476. Jobseekrs Limited, Manchester, M15, failed to pay £613.88 to 1 worker.        
    477. Stepping-Stones-Services Limited, Rochdale, OL11, failed to pay £611.13 to 19 workers.        
    478. Tramp Hair Boutique Limited, Stockport, SK1, failed to pay £610.40 to 1 worker.        
    479. Emporio Fashion Ltd, Leicester, LE5, failed to pay £608.85 to 18 workers.        
    480. Halton Concrete Ltd, Widnes, WA8, failed to pay £607.43 to 2 workers.        
    481. Kanto Stranmillis Limited, Belfast, BT9, failed to pay £590.15 to 1 worker.        
    482. Complete Payroll and Accountancy Limited, Altrincham, M33, failed to pay £584.24 to 1 worker.        
    483. Flawless Cleaning Ltd, Smethwick, B66, failed to pay £582.02 to 1 worker.        
    484. Al Halal Supermarket Limited , Bradford, BD7, failed to pay £581.64 to 7 workers.        
    485. Max & Molly Limited, Wigan, WN3, failed to pay £579.96 to 1 worker.        
    486. Happy Children Day Nursery Limited, Ballynahinch, BT24, failed to pay £573.74 to 12 workers.        
    487. Jagard Valeting & Cleaning Services Ltd, Wellingborough, NN8, failed to pay £573.47 to 2 workers.        
    488. 247 Convenience Store (Bury) Ltd, Bury, BL8, failed to pay £571.63 to 1 worker.        
    489. The Race Horses Hotel Limited, Skipton, BD23, failed to pay £566.05 to 2 workers.        
    490. Strategic Facilities Management Ltd, Leeds, LS17, failed to pay £561.18 to 3 workers.        
    491. Mr C Saudin & Mrs P Saudin, Canterbury, CT1, failed to pay £560.48 to 2 workers.        
    492. Golden Car Limited , Perivale, UB6, failed to pay £551.80 to 1 worker.        
    493. Your Friendly Local Limited, Rotherham, S60, failed to pay £549.95 to 6 workers.        
    494. Steven Boom, East Hunsbury, NN4, failed to pay £547.20 to 2 workers.        
    495. M A Fashions Ltd, Leicester, LE5, failed to pay £545.60 to 17 workers.        
    496. Comserv Contracting & Commercial Limited, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3, failed to pay £544.19 to 1 worker.        
    497. Bonner Studs Limited, Walsall, WS2, failed to pay £537.45 to 1 worker.        
    498. M & C Retail Limited, Darlington, DL1, failed to pay £537.36 to 4 workers.        
    499. Legacy Resorts Limited, Newton Stewart, DG8, failed to pay £536.69 to 1 worker.        
    500. E.K.S Living Clean Ltd, Norwich, NR6, failed to pay £533.58 to 5 workers.        
    501. SC HCW Ltd, Belfast, BT5, failed to pay £533.54 to 7 workers.        
    502. David Alexander Forbes, Inverurie, AB51, failed to pay £531.64 to 2 workers.        
    503. Arunagiri UK LTD, Rickmansworth, WD3, failed to pay £530.92 to 2 workers.        
    504. Millfield Haulage Limited, York, YO26, failed to pay £530.91 to 2 workers.        
    505. Ardmore (Co. Derry) Pre-Cast Concrete Limited, Ardmore, BT47, failed to pay £525.69 to 1 worker.        
    506. W1 Soho Ltd., Soho, W1D, failed to pay £523.20 to 1 worker.        
    507. Shree Siddhi Limited, Glasgow, G66, failed to pay £515.76 to 7 workers.        
    508. 41 Cars Hull Ltd, Hull, HU9, failed to pay £515.72 to 2 workers.        
    509. Felix Inns Ltd, Solihull, B92, failed to pay £514.09 to 20 workers.        
    510. Eastchurch Holiday Centre Limited, Eastchurch, ME12, failed to pay £511.70 to 1 worker.        
    511. Surf N Turf Limited, Leicester, LE2, failed to pay £511.63 to 2 workers.        
    512. Red House Garage Limited, St Helens, WA11, failed to pay £511.43 to 1 worker.        
    513. Classic Decorators (UK) Limited, Barry, CF63, failed to pay £511.43 to 1 worker.        
    514. John Codona’s Pleasure Fairs Limited, Aberdeen, AB24, failed to pay £505.82 to 3 workers.        
    515. Timberquay Limited, Derry, BT48, failed to pay £503.98 to 14 workers.        
    516. Ace Support FM Ltd, Barnet, N14, failed to pay £501.60 to 1 worker.        
    517. Sleepwell (Cumbria) Limited, Barrow In Furness, LA14, failed to pay £500.95 to 1 worker.        
    518. Blank Brixton Ltd, Brixton, SW2, failed to pay £287.31 to 1 worker.        

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  • MIL-OSI New Zealand: Horticulture certificate at EIT helps two T&G leaders grow their careers

    Source: Eastern Institute of Technology

    2 minutes ago

    T&G Global employees Grace Rehu and Sam Carter are combining hands-on work with classroom learning as they grow their careers through study at EIT.

    Both are graduates of the New Zealand Certificate in Horticulture (Level 3) at the Hawke’s Bay campus in Taradale and credit the practical, industry-connected programme with helping them build confidence, expand their knowledge and step into leadership roles.

    Twenty-three-year-old Grace Rehu (Rangitāne and Taranaki Iwi) works as a block lead at T&G and has been in the industry for more than six years. She began working in horticulture on a strawberry farm as a teenager before joining T&G and eventually transitioning into horticulture full-time. While working at T&G, she also took part in vehicle and machinery training through EIT.

    “I enjoy being outdoors and working with the land,” she says. “Studying helped me understand the reasons behind the decisions we make in the field, not just what to do but why.”

    Grace was named the 2023 Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower of the Year, recognised for her passion for horticulture and her commitment to the kaupapa.

    Sam Carter, 29, is Assistant Manager at T&G’s Pakowhai sector. He began working in the industry in 2014 while studying a conjoint degree in law and geography at university. After moving into a full-time orchard role and joining T&G in 2023, he completed his Level 3 qualification through EIT last year and is now studying towards the Level 4 Certificate in Horticulture. This year, he has also been selected to compete in the 2025 Hawke’s Bay Young Fruit Grower of the Year competition.

    “Studying while working gives you both the theoretical and the practical sides,” he says. “You get to apply what you learn straight away, whether that is pruning, irrigation, pest and disease identification or supervision work. It really builds your confidence.”

    Both say the support from T&G has been instrumental to their success.

    Sam says EIT’s teaching team also plays a big part. “The tutors come out and check in. They talk with management and with us, so everyone is on the same page. The feedback is always really helpful.”

    Clare Buckner, program co-ordinator of the fruit production qualifications, is proud of how EIT can work with employers to support their training needs.

    “We have a solid relationship with industry built on a common interest to support our workforce – to not only learn skills in horticulture, but to grow in confidence and self-belief. It is a privilege to be involved with helping workers unlock their potential”.

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Supreme Service Solutions LLC Voluntarily Recalls Supreme Vegetable Products Because of Possible Health Risk

    Source: US Department of Health and Human Services – 3

    Summary

    Company Announcement Date:
    May 26, 2025
    FDA Publish Date:
    May 28, 2025
    Product Type:
    Food & BeveragesProduceFoodborne Illness
    Reason for Announcement:

    Recall Reason Description
    Due to possible contamination with Salmonella

    Company Name:
    Supreme Service Solutions, LLC.
    Brand Name:

    Brand Name(s)
    Supreme Produce

    Product Description:

    Product Description
    Fresh cucumbers and salad and vegetable trays containing fresh cucumbers.

    Company Announcement
    Summary of Recall: Supreme Service Solutions LLC. (dba Supreme Produce) is voluntarily recalling items purchased from Bedner Growers Inc. (purchased from Kroger and its affiliates ) due to possible contamination with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.
    The recalled cucumbers also were sold to a wholesale distributor, which has been directed to further contact its customers with recall instructions. The potential contamination was discovered by Bedner Browers, Inc., who initiated their recall after the US Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) notified Bedner Browers, Inc. that the cucumbers have been linked by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to a Salmonella outbreak that has resulted in 26 illnesses in AL, CA, CO, FL, IL, KS, KY, MI, NC, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, and VA.
    Recalled produce was distributed to Kroger and its affiliated retail stores located in IN, IL, OH, KY, TN, MS, MO, AR and, MI.
    Products are packaged in clear-plastic grab-n-go containers of various sizes with the appearance of cut produce.
    Retail packaged items and impacted code dates:

    Product 

    UPC 

    Purchase Dates

    Cucumber Bowl with Ranch Dip

    850054894519

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Cucumber Slices W/Tajin

    850053685699

    05/08/2021 to 05/21/2025

    Fruit and Veg Tray

    850065403748

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Cucumber Carrot Ranch Pack

    850065403557

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Large Vegetable Tray

    850054894571

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Vegetable Bowl $5

    850065403380

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Vegetable Bowl $10

    860010507131

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Vegetable Ranch Tray No Dip Small

    850054894335

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Chef Salad

    850065403328

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Family Cobb Salad

    850054894625

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Individual Garden Salad

    850054894618

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Individual Greek Salad

    850054894649

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Family Garden Salad

    850054894601

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Individual Cobb Salad

    850054894632

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Southwest Salad

    850065403069

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Cucumber w/Ranch Snack Cup

    850065403144

    05/08/2025 to 05/21/2025

    Labels Example*: see attached
    *Note: Address line will be specific to store of purchase.
    There have been no illnesses or consumer complaints reported to date for items purchased from Supreme Produce.
    What You Should Do:Consumers should not consume and discard the product. The product(s) involved is past its shelf life and should already be out of distribution, but if consumers have any product they question, do not consume it, but rather discard it. Consumers with questions or concerns about their health should contact their Physician.
    Asking Questions?Consumers who have purchased the recalled products may obtain additional information by contacting Bedner Growers, Inc. at 866-222-9180, M-F 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT.
    Link to FDA Outbreak Advisory

    Company Contact Information

    Consumers:
    Bedner Growers, Inc.
    866-222-9180

    Content current as of:
    05/28/2025

    Regulated Product(s)

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  • MIL-OSI Security: 18 Charged With Violent, Gun, Or Immigration Crimes As Part Of Operation Take Back America

    Source: Office of United States Attorneys

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. – U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed separate criminal charges against 18 defendants as part of Operation Take Back America, for violations that include straw purchasing of firearms, bank robbery, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, illegal reentry, and failure to notify a change of address.

    The 18 defendants charged last week and the alleged offenses include:

    Walter Adonai Rivera Chinchilla, 24, of Charlotte, and Fausto Odalis Reyes Guevara, 27, of Honduras, are charged via a superseding indictment of conspiracy to provide a false statement during the purchase of a firearm. Guevara is also charged with possession of a firearm by a person unlawfully in the United States. According to the superseding indictment, on October 12, 2024, Guevara messaged Chinchilla that Guevara needed a “17” and a white Beretta for a good price. Two days later, Chinchilla allegedly purchased a Beretta 92FS pistol from Guns Too, a licensed firearms dealer located in Caldwell County. When he purchased the firearm from Guns Too, Chinchilla allegedly lied on the forms, falsely attesting that he was the actual buyer of the firearm when he was in fact buying it for Guevara. The indictment further alleges that on the same day Chinchilla purchased a second firearm, a Glock 45 pistol, from Foothills Jewelry & Loan, a licensed firearms dealer in Catawba County. It is further alleged that Chinchilla lied again on the forms falsely attesting that he was the actual buyer of the firearm when he knew he was buying it for Guevara. Chinchilla is also facing additional charges including trafficking in firearms, making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm, and dealing in firearms without a license.

    Jose Francisco Meraz-Villatoro, 31, of Mexico, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by an alien and illegal reentry by an alien. It is alleged that Meraz-Villatoro unlawfully possessed two firearms: a Glock 43 9mm handgun and a Girsan Regard MC 9mm handgun. Meraz-Villatoro was previously deported from the United States three times: in September 2013, in July 2014, and again in November 2022.

    Carlos Sarmiento-Ochoa, 20, of Honduras, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by an alien and illegal reentry by an alien. It is alleged in the indictment that Sarmiento-Ochoa unlawfully possessed a Glock 23, 40 caliber handgun, and that he was previously deported from the United States in May 2018 and again in October 2019.

    Gial Obed Rodas-Hernandez, 20, of Honduras, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by an alien and illegal reentry by an alien. The indictment alleges that Rodas-Hernandez unlawfully possessed a Taurus PT709 handgun, 9mm, and that he was previously deported from the United States in February 2021.

    Jose Alberto Velazquez-Trejo, 41, of Mexico, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by an alien and illegal reentry by an alien. The indictment alleges that Velazquez-Trejo unlawfully possessed a Sig Sauer P226 handgun. Velazquez-Trejo was also previously deported from the United States in May 2008.

    Norman Enrique Lopez-Santamaria, 42, of Honduras, is charged with illegally reentering into the United States and failure to notify of a change of address. Lopez-Santamaria was previously deported from the United States four times: in October 2002, in July 2009, in August 2010, and again in May 2014.

    Rogelio Hernandez-Flores, 50, of Mexico, is charged with illegally reentering the United States and failure to notify of a change of address. Hernandez-Flores was previously deported from the United States three times: in August 1997, July 2003, and again in November 2007.

    Luis Zamora-Cruz, 47, of Mexico, is charged with illegally reentering the United States and failure to notify of a change of address. Zamora-Cruz was previously deported from the United States in July 2010 and again in May 2017.

    Christian Emanuel Valladares-Sierra, 25, of Honduras, is charged with illegally reentering the United States and failure to notify of a change of address. Valladares-Sierra was previously deported from the United States in September 2018.

    Josue Oveniel Martinez-Avalo, 31, of Honduras, is charged with illegally reentering into the United States and failure to notify of a change of address. Martinez-Avalo was previously deported from the United States in June 2014.

    Luis Alfredo Navarrete Pastrana, 32, of Mexico, is charged with illegal reentry into the United States. Pastrana was previously deported from the United States in October 2021.

    Bryan Flowers, 53, of Hickory, N.C., is charged with bank robbery. According to the indictment, on April 17, 2025, Flowers allegedly robbed the Peoples Bank located in Lincolnton, N.C., by force, violence, and intimidation.

    Dwayne Furlow Chaney, 40, of Charlotte, is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. Chaney allegedly illegally possessed a Smith & Wesson M&P, .40 caliber pistol, and did so knowing he was prohibited from possessing a firearm following a prior criminal conviction.

    Marshall Demetrius Rice, 45, of Charlotte, is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. The indictment alleges that Rice illegally possessed a Smith & Wesson, model SD9VE, 9mm pistol, and did so knowing he was prohibited from possessing a firearm following a prior criminal conviction.

    Damiyus Diamonte Fowler, 28, of Charlotte, is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. Fowler allegedly illegally possessed a Glock 19, Gen 5 9mm caliber pistol, and did so knowing he was prohibited from possessing a firearm following a prior criminal conviction.

    Aaron Deondre Conway, 41, of Charlotte, is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. The indictment alleges that Conway illegally possessed a Walther, Model PPK/S .380 caliber pistol, and did so knowing he was prohibited from possessing a firearm following a prior criminal conviction.

    Jamil Omire Ali, 31, of Charlotte, is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. Ali allegedly illegally possessed a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield, .40 caliber pistol, and did so knowing he was prohibited from possessing a firearm following a prior criminal conviction.

    Operation Take Back America is a nationwide initiative to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).

    The charges in the indictments are allegations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

    In making today’s announcement, U.S. Attorney Ferguson credited Homeland Security Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Removal Operations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for their investigations that led to the charges. U.S. Attorney Ferguson also commended the local law enforcement agencies that assisted in the investigation and apprehension of the defendants.

    Assistant U.S. Attorneys with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte are prosecuting the cases. 

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: The Summer in Moscow program was compiled taking into account the suggestions of city residents

    Translation. Region: Russian Federal

    Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

    Large-scale project program “Summer in Moscow” compiled taking into account the wishes of the capital’s residents. The events will begin on June 1 and will last until September 7. More than 400 sites in different areas of the city will be open for Muscovites and guests of the capital.

    As before told Sergei Sobyanin, events will be held daily and most of them will be free.

    This year, the poster was created by Muscovites themselves. They shared their ideas during the voting on the results of the last season in the project “Active Citizen”. Among the most popular requests were quizzes, competitions, master classes for families, as well as film screenings, concerts and open-air theatre performances. In addition, city residents supported literary meetings, gastronomic fairs, sports master classes, markets, fashion shows, events for pet owners and charity events.

    All wishes are included in the program of the new season. Sports activities, challenges and training will be held within the framework of the Festival of urban sports and projects “My Sports District” And“Sports Weekend”. Drama lovers will be treated to the International Open Festival “Theater Boulevard – 2025”, film fans will be able to attend open-air summer screenings, and those interested in history will be able to stroll around the sites of the festivals “Times and Epochs” and “Moscow Estates”. In addition, the IV International Moscow Jazz Festival, the Summer Park Symphony festival and the III Moscow Summer Music Festival in Zaryadye Park are planned in the capital. Events for children will be held in various parks throughout the summer.

    The program will also include gastronomic festivals “Moscow is on the wave. Fish week” and “Tastes of Russia”, the World Festival of Circus Arts “Idol-2025” and the festival of urban landscape design “Gardens and Flowers” with bright thematic zones and picturesque art objects. In addition, you can visit bright circus divertissements with the participation of the best artists of Russia in special circus tents on the territory of the Moskino cinema park, Izmailovsky Park and the Yuzhnoye Butovo landscape park. A detailed program of events is available on the project website “Summer in Moscow”.

    Project “Summer in Moscow”— the main event of the season, which will unite the most vibrant events of the capital from June 1. Charity, cultural and sports events will be held daily in all districts of the city. The project will be held for the second time, and this season will be more eventful: new, original and colorful festivals and events will be added to traditional ones.

    Project “Active Citizen” has been operating since 2014, during which time more than seven million people have joined it, and over seven thousand votes have been held. Every month, the city implements from 30 to 40 decisions made by Muscovites. The project is being developed by the State Institution “New Management Technologies” and the capital Department of Information Technology.

    The creation, development and operation of the e-government infrastructure, including the provision of mass socially significant services, as well as other services in electronic form, correspond to the objectives of the national project “Data Economy” and the regional project of the city of Moscow “Digital Public Administration”.

    Get the latest news quicklythe city’s official telegram channel Moscow.

    Please note: This information is raw content directly from the source of the information. It is exactly what the source states and does not reflect the position of MIL-OSI or its clients.

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  • MIL-OSI China: Beijing to hold over 1,700 activities for Dragon Boat Festival

    Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News

    Beijing will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, with over 1,700 events across the city.

    The planned activities including dragon boat racing, traditional cultural heritage events, and garden flower viewing. This year, the festival falls on Saturday, May 31.

    Districts across Beijing will offer interactive activities, such as a dragon boat tug-of-war at Gubei Water Town, Hanfu clothing experiences at Baihuashan Scenic Area, and dragon boat races at Yanqi Lake.

    More than 720 cultural activities will be held by cultural institutions at different levels of the city, including lectures, poetry readings, and exhibitions. 

    The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism has created seven themed tour routes focusing on nature, geology, and cultural sites. Ten exhibition-themed travel routes are also available, featuring popular exhibitions like “This is the Shang” and an animated film showcase at Shougang Park.

    City parks will host activities such as crafting scented sachets, braiding colorful ropes, and archery. Beihai Park will hold a traditional sports festival, and Yuanmingyuan Park will offer workshops on ancient Chinese crafts. Visitors to China National Botanical Garden, Taoranting Park, and Beijing Garden of World’s Flowers will have the opportunity to view Chinese roses and learn about their history in Chinese gardening.

    Family-friendly events will include a LEGO Children’s Festival at Chaoyang Park, where children can build large LEGO structures, and a nighttime forest exploration for teenagers at Fragrant Hills Park. 

    In addition, around 30 sports events are scheduled, including the 2025 Beijing Grand Canal Dragon Boat Carnival from May 31 to June 2. The carnival will feature 32 teams and over 500 athletes competing in dragon boat races, in addition to other events including paddle boarding, kayaking, tug-of-war, arm wrestling, and kite flying. Organizers expect around 100,000 visitors.

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  • MIL-OSI Video: What does it take to be the Army’s BEST combat engineer? | Behind the Scenes

    Source: US Army (video statements)

    This year the Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Best Sapper Competition was held at Fort Leonard Wood and the Army’s top combat engineers assembled to prove they have the expertise, stamina and fortitude to earn the title of Best Sapper.

    About the U.S. Army:
    The Army Mission – our purpose – remains constant: To deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars by providing ready, prompt & sustained land dominance by Army forces across the full spectrum of conflict as part of the joint force. Interested in joining the U.S. Army? Visit:
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  • MIL-OSI Global: 5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed

    Source: The Conversation – USA – By Danielle K. Brown, Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University

    Flowers, painted benches and handmade memorials surround a mural of George Floyd at George Floyd Square on May 18, 2025. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

    On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis.

    From the outset, the incident became a battle of narratives. The local police initially reported Floyd was experiencing “distress” and died from a medical incident. A day later, bystander Darnella Frazier uploaded a video that showed the graphic details, including the police’s excessive use of force leading up to Floyd’s death.

    Floyd’s murder, and Frazier’s documentation of it, spawned what by some measures was the largest protest movement in American history.

    And that, too, became a contest of narratives, this time in the media. A focus on the aftermath of the events in Minneapolis, and elsewhere, were quickly supplanted by stories of lawlessness and violence by protesters.

    For almost a decade, I’ve researched the media’s coverage of protests, focusing extensively on the reporting of modern-day uprisings against police brutality.

    Time and time again, colleagues and I have found that the bulk of news coverage of protests against police brutality tends to focus on protesters’ violence, disruption or sensational actions.

    Protesters hold up their illuminated phones as they block a road beneath a highway in Missouri in June 2020.
    AP Photo/Jeff Roberson

    Yet in reading some of the coverage ahead of the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s death, I have observed a different media trend. With the benefit of time, what was once a news media frenzy focusing on the violence after Floyd’s killing has yielded space for reflection and coverage that legitimizes those who took to the streets.

    In so doing, these narrative changes provide essential opportunities to understand the complexity of journalism and social movements seen from different moments in time.

    Following flames

    Quickly after Floyd’s murder in 2020, it became clear that subjects such as the role of state violence, the sophistication of demands for change and community grief were less likely to make headlines than things such as rioting and lawlessness.

    This pattern is part of what scholars call a “protest paradigm” that explores the relationship between protests, media and the public.

    The paradigm holds that journalism often works against protest movements hoping to change the status quo. The news media’s tendency to emphasize the frivolous, violent or annoying actions of protests rather than the depth of protesters’ demands, grievances and agendas negatively shapes public opinion and affects the public’s willingness to support the movements behind them.

    After Floyd’s death, those closely following the coverage of conservative media were more likely to be exposed to stories that depicted protests as “criminal mobs.”

    But it wasn’t just conservative media. On May 31, 2020, the local paper, the Star Tribune, described the governor’s “show of strength” – a term used to describe the massive deployment of the Minnesota National Guard to help quell the “days of lawless rampage.”

    Most coverage at the time fit a familiar pattern of delegitimizing the protest movement.

    With time and space, the pattern breaks

    Five years later, some delegitimizing news coverage continues to headline. The New York Post, for example, recently published a 13-minute documentary that suggests Minneapolis is still on fire.

    But a good portion of today’s news also presents a different framing. In one five-year anniversary piece, The New York Times described George Floyd Square, the murder-site-turned-place-of-reverance for many activists and local residents, as a “site of protest, art, grief and remembrance.” Another article in The Minnesota Star Tribune describes preservation efforts of street art and murals made by activists after the murder. Other coverage described the complicated process of demanding change and the path that remains ahead.

    A portrait of George Floyd painted on the pavement is at the center of a memorial surrounded by flowers, artwork and tributes outside a storefront at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 22, 2025.
    Photo by Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

    Of course, these are selective snapshots of the coverage. And some media may shy away from covering the anniversary at all.

    But from my standpoint as a media scholar, the coverage that does exist has gone from being dominated by an initial focus on the violent aspects of protest to, in the main, a more reflective look at the meaning — rather than the spectacle — of the unrest.

    That legitimizing trend over time isn’t an isolated phenomenon. My colleagues Rachel Mourão and George Sylvie and I found something similar in previous research looking at the protests that followed the killings of Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.

    In our analysis of the protests following Brown’s death, we observed that the first weeks of coverage focused more on protesters, delegitimizing frames and episodic news – that is, the disruption, destruction and arrests.

    But we saw a dramatic change by the third and fourth weeks of coverage. With the passing of time, more legitimizing frames emerged, describing the protest’s substance and demands, and more thematic and in-depth reporting became apparent.

    We observed a similar trend when we looked out even further from the triggering events. After the trial of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch leader charged and then acquitted over the deaths of Martin, and the grand jury verdict not to indict police officer Darren Wilson over the death of Brown, news coverage of protests was more contextual and thematic. The coverage provided more space and voice to “nonofficial” sources such as protesters and family members.

    A question of journalism

    The protest paradigm’s persistence may be a function of journalistic bias − the adage of “if it bleeds, it leads” talks to the immediate reporting imperative of prioritizing violence and spectacle over issues and meaning. But it can also be a consequence of how journalism operates to inform the public.

    George Floyd family attorney Ben Crump addresses media along with other attorneys and members of Floyd’s family outside the Hennepin County Government Center on March 29, 2021, in Minneapolis where the trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began.
    AP Photo/Jim Mone

    When uprisings against police brutality first begin, everything is new to the journalist and the public. The initial coverage tends to reflect this newsness and emphasizes breaking news and official narratives − which are often easier to obtain than the statements of protest groups. Police departments, for example, have well-established media relations departments with preexisting relationships with journalists.

    These initial reports also tend to feature information that would have the biggest impact on wider communities − such as blocked highways and potential property destruction − than just the aggrieved community.

    This translates to more coverage generally in the aftermath of a big event − and that reporting is more likely to delegitimize protests.

    These are the first drafts of history, and they are typically incomplete.

    But five years later in the case of George Floyd and protests of his death, coverage looks more complete and complex. That complexity brings more balance, from my perspective.

    What journalists write years later are no longer the first drafts of history reported with limited perspectives. In these subsequent drafts, journalists have a little more time to think, learn and breathe. Immediacy takes a back burner, and journalists have had more time to collect information.

    And it is in these collections of subsequent drafts that the protesters and social movements get a fairer shake.

    Danielle K. Brown receives funding from Lumina Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

    – ref. 5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed – https://theconversation.com/5-years-after-george-floyds-murder-how-the-media-narrative-has-changed-around-the-killing-and-the-protests-that-followed-257199

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  • MIL-OSI Security: CEO of East Bay-Based Internet Companies Sentenced to More Than Seven Years in Prison for Committing Wire Fraud

    Source: US FBI

    Alan Anderson Sentenced In Connection With Scheme To Raise Money By Creating False Impression of Profitability and Viability for Companies Marketing Child-Friendly Services

    SAN FRANCISCO – Alan Anderson was sentenced today to 88 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution for defrauding investors by lying to them about the profitability of his internet companies, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp. Anderson’s sentence was imposed by the Honorable Edward M. Chen, U.S. District Judge.

    Anderson, 61, of Walnut Creek, pleaded guilty on Jan. 4, 2024, to two counts of wire fraud.  In connection with pleading guilty, Anderson admitted that from Apr. 22, 2010, through May 2018, he was the majority shareholder and CEO of three companies: Imbee.com, a Delaware corporation based in Walnut Creek marketed as a child-friendly social media platform; Fanlala, a California corporation marketed as a service providing internet-based music streaming for children; and Fruit Punch, a California corporation marketed as providing music-streaming service for children.  Anderson further admitted that he falsely claimed that the companies were either being acquired or were expanding existing partnerships or contracts with large, well-established companies to induce individuals to invest in his businesses.  To further his falsehoods, and to create an appearance of legitimacy for his false claims, Anderson created false contracts, purchase orders, and other documentation that he sent to investors.  Anderson created and sent these false documents to investors with the intent to deceive or cheat them.

    At sentencing, Judge Chen found that Anderson began lying to investors in September 2011, that his long-running fraud spanned years, and that over the course of the scheme Anderson defrauded investors out of approximately $8.825 million.

    A federal grand jury indicted Anderson on October 13, 2021, charging him with four counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud.

    In addition to the prison term, Judge Chen also sentenced the defendant to a three-year period of supervised release and ordered that he pay restitution in an amount to be determined during a further hearing on October 10, 2024.  The defendant will begin serving the prison term on January 6, 2025.

    Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christiaan Highsmith and Sailaja Paidipaty are prosecuting the case with the assistance of Mark DiCenzo.  The prosecution is the result of a multi-year investigation by the FBI.
     

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