Recently launched virtual marketplace www.meltedinside.com,  which helps artisan food and drink producers promote their produce, has seen over 100 makers from across the UK join so far.

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Around 30 of these makers' products have been named in this year's prestigious Great Taste Awards with a mix of 1, 2 and 3-star accolades. This year 12,777 products were entered and judged.

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Melted Inside founder Candy Bowles said: "We try to feature the best artisan products available and seeing so many achieve Great Taste Awards shows that we have teamed up with the best of the best."

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Great Taste is the world's largest and most trusted accreditation scheme for fine food and drink. Each product is fastidiously blind tasted by selected chefs, buyers, fine food retailers, restaurateurs, food critics and writers over 60 judging days.

Melted Inside makers who achieved at least one star include: La Tua Pasta; Artisan Raw; Palace Culture; Lakeland Mues; Noble and Stace; Nutcessity; Yare Valley Oils; The Ribble Valley Gin Company; Margot and Montanez; Hogg Norton; Raw and Wild Company; ChicP ; Cru 8

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Candy added: “Melted Inside helps shoppers discover amazing and delicious products while giving artisan food and drinks makers a platform to share their passion. We encourage our makers to take the front stage to tell their stories through videos, images, podcasts and even recipes and blogs.

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“We understand that many makers have limited resources and like to focus on creating amazing food. Melted Inside aims to make it enjoyable for shoppers to buy from these passionate producers and makes it easier for the artisan makers to engage with more customers and share their incredible stories. I strongly believe that we should all know where our food comes from, who makes it and how it is made. Provenance matters to people more than ever and passionately made, delicious food deserves to be discovered and appreciated wherever you are.”

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As well as tasting amazing, some of the produce allows shoppers to make a difference by helping others when they purchase. For instance, 5th Season Fruit supports charity Farm Africa and Harry Specters chocolate provides employment opportunities to people with autism - a condition that the owner cares a lot about for personal reasons.

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Candy launched Melted Inside during lockdown to offer people a greater choice of lovingly made products during a time of isolation and social distancing. She describes piloting a new marketplace during the lockdown as “a leap of faith, to put it mildly”.

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“Working with the artisan makers is proving a wonderful experience. Their passion and commitment to what they do is simply inspiring and humbling. This realisation helps me appreciate what they make even more and the stories of many of our makers are just fascinating,” she added.

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Melted Inside exists to share the love of what artisan makers do every day and the love they put into creating products for shoppers looking to buy real food from real people. If you are an artisan food maker and interested in joining Melted Inside please email a href="mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." data-content="Good Market community - a curated platform that makes it easier to find and connect with social enterprises, responsible businesses and changemakers who are creating a better world.

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For more information, interviews, images or if you would like to review one of Melted Inside’s products please contact Suzi Christie  a href="mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." data-content="This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." data-type="mail">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  07590 591140 

The European Union (EU) has recently published several amendments to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021, the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Recast Regulation.

These amendments include:

• Regulation (EU) 2020/1203 – revises the exemption requirements for perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS). Changes include the deletion of the third paragraph in point 4 and the replacing of the first paragraph with:

“If the quantity released into the environment is minimized, manufacturing and placing on the market shall be allowed until September 7, 2025 for use as mist suppressant for non-decorative hard chromium (VI) plating in closed loop systems. Provided that those Member States where PFOS is used report to the Commission by September 7, 2024 on progress made to eliminate PFOS and justify the continuing need for this use, the Commission shall review the need for a prolongation of the derogation for this use of PFOS for a maximum of five years by September 7, 2025.”

• Regulation (EU) 2020/1204 – adds dicofol (CAS No 115-32-2) to the Part A of Annex I

Both amendments were released on August 18, 2020 and came into force on the twentieth day following publication in the OJEU.

The EU has also issued draft amendments to the POPs Recast Regulation and held public consultations that closed on September 29, 2020. These include draft amendments relating to:

• PFOA and its salts and PFOA-related compounds – equal to or below 2 mg/kg (0.0002 % by weight) where they are present in medical devices other than invasive devices and implantable devices
• Pentachlorophenol (PCP) and its salts and esters – equal to or below 5 mg/kg (0.0005 % by weight) where they are present in substances, mixtures or articles

POPs are organic chemicals that persist in the environment, accumulate through the food chain, and have adverse effects on human health and the environment. They are highly toxic and can bio-accumulate and survive long-range transport. In 2001, several countries signed the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants to promote their elimination and reduction.

The EU recast the POPs Regulation on June 25, 2019, which took effect on July 15, 2019, thereby repealing the originals regulation, (EC) No. 850/2004.

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Palo Alto, California, October 1, 2020 – 4me, Inc., a leading enterprise service management (ESM) software vendor that enables seamless collaboration between internal and external service providers, is delighted to announce a partnership with VitalityHealth to provide IT Service Management and ESM through 4me in the cloud.

The implementation of 4me significantly reduces software costs, speeds up the transition to ESM and facilitates collaboration with external providers

VitalityHealth, a leading health insurer in the UK, is bringing in the technology to provide a better experience for employees, with greater flexibility and customisation of service delivery. The partnership ensures accountability and consistency of service management to employees looking for enhanced productivity.

The service also integrates with multiple IT suppliers and service providers within Vitality, and systems provided from their parent company, Discovery.

Service Integration and Management (SIAM) is a core function of 4me that enables Vitality to pass requests smoothly between their strategic partners, regardless of their chosen service management solution. With the ability to build consistent processes across providers, any request reassigned by Vitality now remains visible and is tracked to the affected service level agreement. For strategic partner, Tata Consulting Services (TCS), this meant integrating with ServiceNow, and at Discovery, 4me connects to CA Service Manager.

Charles Bresler, Chief Information Officer at Vitality said: “Partnering with 4me allows Vitality to bring together a number of key support services in one place, providing employees with a one-stop-shop for a range of service requests, improving their experience and improving results.”

Several support domains have been set up in 4me for IT and other support functions, such as Facilities Management and HR. 4me also allows secure trusts to be established so these internal service providers can also work together.

“Vitality made this change after looking at what its service management solution was trying to achieve and the improvements they wanted to make,” said Cor Winkler Prins, CEO and co-founder of 4me. “Having a solution that is faster, more user-friendly and easier to maintain frees up the time large enterprises need in order to focus on the quality of service they obtain from their internal and external providers.”

The implementation was undertaken by Revo 4me Services and delivered in 88 days. The consulting and training was provided remotely due to Covid-19, meaning the go-live date went as planned. Vitality switched to 4me with 450 support experts on the same day.

 About 4me

4me, Inc. is the provider of 4me, a SaaS service management solution that allows large enterprises to collaborate seamlessly with their managed service providers, while gaining real-time insight into the level of service they receive.

Founded in 2010, 4me is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Visit www.4me.com

About Vitality – positively different health insurance, life insurance and investments Vitality is part of Discovery Limited, a worldwide insurer and investment manager protecting more than eight million members in 18 countries worldwide, across Europe, the United States, Australia, South Africa, Canada and China. 

Vitality pioneered the ‘shared-value’ insurance model, a unique approach based on the scientifically proven principles of behavioural economics. Through this model, Vitality helps members take a more active role in managing their own wellness, encouraging them to develop healthy long-term habits that are good for them, good for the company and good for society. The effect is positive for all stakeholders – members benefit from better health, financial rewards and additional incentives; employers benefit from healthier, more productive, and more engaged employees; and Vitality benefits from a healthier membership base. 

About VitalityHealth

VitalityHealth is one of the UK’s leading private medical insurers. Through applications of the shared value model to health insurance, VitalityHealth incentivises members to get healthy, motivating better lifestyle choices and rewarding them for doing so. All VitalityHealth members receive Core Cover, giving them access to private GP video consultations within 48 hours and a Full Cover Promise (including full cover for eligible in-patient and day-patient consultant’s fees). For more information, visit www.vitalityhealth.co.uk 

October 7, 2020, Oshawa, ON -- Atrium Realty Group explains how they have managed to rule the real estate industry. The document they released also explained their secret to becoming the industry specialist in Ontario. Atrium Realty Group is a well-known name that serves Oshawa with high performing real estate services. This company has been in business for a few years now with more than 62 years of collective experience handy. This real estate company recently revealed its secret behind their success and happy clients around the Ontario areas.

The company recently released a document stating that the main area to look after being real estate agents in Oshawa is that they are best in the work they do. The main reason for their success is that they only perceive clients and handover their projects to different Oshawa realtors with specific experience. When asked further, the company’s spokesperson said that we pay much importance to the fact that the Oshawa real estate agents take a project in which they are well-aware of the neighborhood and have worked on similar projects before.

In addition to these basic requirements, the real estate company makes sure that all of its Oshawa realtors work full-time with 100 percent commitment. This helps the clients receive satisfactory results with faster turnarounds in selling as well as helping clients to buy or rent one. Their strategy to only hand over the projects to the agents that are well-known with the neighborhood has been helping their case until this date.

Atrium Realty Group has also released a document urging the people to look for certain features before hiring the real estate agents in Oshawa. Some of the most noteworthy were looking for their experience, credentials, past experience with similar cases, knowledge of the neighborhood, and testimonials from past clients. You can reach this company and look for one of the best Oshawa real estate agents with this company if you have property or interested in buying one in the nearby areas.

About the Company

Atrium Realty Group is a real estate agency that offers services to clients in Durham Region and Kawartha Lakes in Oshawa, Ontario. The company has a collective experience of 62 years being in the real estate industry and has donned more than 100 clients yearly. The company is well-known for its experienced realtors that offer high-quality services and well-researched problem-solving advice.

Contact

Jasmine LaCroix
Atrium Realty Group Inc., Brokerage
3-136 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON, Canada
9055560566
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