A Regina law firm has launched a lawsuit against a company that makes the coffee machines that were part of a massive recall earlier this year. Merchant Law Group, headed by Tony Merchant, has filed a statement of claim alleging that Bosch-brand Tassimo machines are unsafe and suffer from design defects. Merchant wants to have a judge declare the suit a class action. The claim contains allegations that have not been proven in court. Customers burned - In February, 900,000 of the single-cup coffee makers were recalled in Canada and another 835,000 were recalled in the United States. The U.S.-based Consumer Product Safety Commission says there have been 140 reports of problems with the Tassimo single-cup brewers spraying people with hot liquids or coffee grounds, including 37 cases involving second-degree burns. Dozens of those complaints have come from Canadians, according to Health Canada.
2012-04-11 05:59:36 UTC
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The world's largest coffee chain, Seattle-based Starbucks, is busy finalising locations across major malls in Mumbai and New Delhi for an India opening by this September. The $10.7-billion American group, in a joint venture with Tata Global Beverages, is completing deals for around 10 locations in the country at present, according to market intelligence. John Culver, president, Starbucks China and Asia Pacific, confirmed to Business Standard that the group would start its India journey with stores in Mumbai and New Delhi, and that the first outlet was expected by September. Starbucks had signed a deal with Tata Global Beverages more than a year ago, but announced the formal launch of the US chain's retail foray about two months ago. Then, Starbucks senior management had said 50 outlets would be opened by the year-end. But at this point, the company is quiet on the specific rollout plan for 2012. "While we cannot share specific plans, we are committed to investing in growing
2012-04-11 05:47:56 UTC
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Just how desperate have I become after surviving most of Lent without eating sweets? I'm huffing inhalable chocolate. It's the trendy product for people in a hurry, or anyone who thinks chewing and swallowing are so last year. After seeing it mentioned in our Food section a while back, I contacted the manufacturer and had them send me some samples for research and ridicule purposes. Soon a box came with a half dozen lipstick-sized tubes of Le Whif containing "whiffable chocolate powder." Also in there were eight AeroShot tubes, dispensers of caffeine in breathable form with a hint of lime. That whole inhalable, whiffable, breathable thing is a misnomer because you're actually puffing flavored powder into your mouth and swallowing it. You don't want this stuff in your lungs. This puts me in a moral quandary. If it's going into my stomach, does it count as a sweet or dessert, which I have sworn off for Lent? Then again, it's 0 calories, 0 fat and 0 carbs. Those are not the
2012-04-10 13:09:57 UTC
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Just how desperate have I become after surviving most of Lent without eating sweets? I'm huffing inhalable chocolate. It's the trendy product for people in a hurry, or anyone who thinks chewing and swallowing are so last year. After seeing it mentioned in our Food section a while back, I contacted the manufacturer and had them send me some samples for research and ridicule purposes. Soon a box came with a half dozen lipstick-sized tubes of Le Whif containing "whiffable chocolate powder." Also in there were eight AeroShot tubes, dispensers of caffeine in breathable form with a hint of lime. That whole inhalable, whiffable, breathable thing is a misnomer because you're actually puffing flavored powder into your mouth and swallowing it. You don't want this stuff in your lungs. This puts me in a moral quandary. If it's going into my stomach, does it count as a sweet or dessert, which I have sworn off for Lent? Then again, it's 0 calories, 0 fat and 0 carbs. Those are not the
2012-04-10 04:30:45 UTC
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Whether the extract of green (meaning unroasted) coffee beans is a possible breakthrough weapon in the fight against obesity or just another risky and momentary example of scientific jumping the gun remains to be seen, but right now the notion is generating plenty of interest and ink based on one extremely promising but extremely limited study. The basics: Sixteen overweight young adults were given a 1,050 milligram dose of green coffee bean extract for six weeks, then a two-week break, then a daily 700 milligram dose for six weeks, then another break, and then a placebo. For some of them, the order was different. The results bowled the researchers over. Without altering their calorie intake, over the full 22 weeks, the volunteers lost an average of 17.5 pounds, reducing their total body weight by 10.5 percent and their average body fat by 16 percent. And as the amount of extract
2012-04-09 23:28:57 UTC
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A Regina law firm has launched a lawsuit against a company that makes the coffee machines that were part of a massive recall earlier this year. Merchant Law Group, headed by Tony Merchant, has filed a statement of claim alleging that Bosch-brand Tassimo machines are unsafe and suffer from design defects. Merchant wants to have a judge declare the suit a class action. The claim contains allegations that have not been proven in court. Customers burned - In February, 900,000 of the single-cup coffee makers were recalled in Canada and another 835,000 were recalled in the United States. The U.S.-based Consumer Product Safety Commission says there have been 140 reports of problems with the Tassimo single-cup brewers spraying people with hot liquids or coffee grounds, including 37 cases involving second-degree burns. Dozens of those complaints have come from Canadians, according to Health Canada.
2012-04-09 20:52:01 UTC
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Just how desperate have I become after surviving most of Lent without eating sweets? I'm huffing inhalable chocolate. It's the trendy product for people in a hurry, or anyone who thinks chewing and swallowing are so last year. After seeing it mentioned in our Food section a while back, I contacted the manufacturer and had them send me some samples for research and ridicule purposes. Soon a box came with a half dozen lipstick-sized tubes of Le Whif containing "whiffable chocolate powder." Also in there were eight AeroShot tubes, dispensers of caffeine in breathable form with a hint of lime. That whole inhalable, whiffable, breathable thing is a misnomer because you're actually puffing flavored powder into your mouth and swallowing it. You don't want this stuff in your lungs. This puts me in a moral quandary. If it's going into my stomach, does it count as a sweet or dessert, which I have sworn off for Lent? Then again, it's 0 calories, 0 fat and 0 carbs. Those are not the
2012-04-09 08:35:34 UTC
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JAMAICA'S COFFEE industry has been stymied due to the lack of a sustained presence in the marketplace to buoy the already exceptional reputation of Blue Mountain coffee, if for no other reason, against eventualities. This worldwide revered product has languished in the international market, overworking its natural attributes in a stand-alone way which has now left it to be warding off competition from other coffees lurking in the wings. The question has been asked from whence will come a promotional budget with strong diaspora overtones to keep Blue Mountain and Brand Jamaica in the face of the most discriminating global market. Mavis Bank coffee has started to take serious initiatives in this respect and now boasts a whopping $37m profit in three months or longer. What is unfortunate is that this has happened at a time when the Jamaica Coffee Growers' Association (JCGA) is being called upon to answer for allegations of 56,000kg of coffee, transferred from
2012-04-09 05:59:03 UTC
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The purchase is the latest swoop by Japanese companies into commodities assets in Latin America and elsewhere, where profitability has been helped by relatively high prices for grains such as soy and corn, sugar and, in particular, coffee. Two months ago, Mitsubishi bought the same size stake in South American grains producer Ceagro CEGR.UL, which is controlled by Argentina's Los Grobo. Ipanema Coffees, a producer of specialty beans marketed to the upper end of the coffee market, was Mitsubishi's second agricultural investment this year in Brazil, a country it describes as strategic to its plans. Growers in Brazil, the world's top coffee producer, have profited as prices have risen due to tight supplies. Coffee prices doubled in 2010, and while prices have fallen in the last six months to about $1.85 a lb, they remain nearly 60 percent higher than the average for the past 10 years. Mitsubishi, Japan's largest trading house, said growing demand for coffee was a motive for
2012-04-08 22:19:44 UTC
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