These are excerpts from editorials from around the world:

Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan,–on labelling scandals

Four months since the first in a series of scandals over false labels on food surfaced, police arrested the president of meat packing company Meat Hope Co. on Wednesday. The president was arrested on suspicion of shipping ground meat labelled as "100 percent pure beef," which, in fact, contained cheaper materials such as pork and chicken.

But the cheating did not stop there. He is also suspected of carrying on such deceptive practices as mixing livestock blood into meat to make it red and look like beef. He also allegedly falsified the production areas for beef. It is natural that he be held severely accountable for his actions. ...

As processed foods and sweets inundate the market, it has become increasingly difficult to keep an eye on them.

We think food makers are taking advantage of the situation and losing their ambition to properly make tasty products. The situation is serious. And it will not be easy for the food industry to recover consumer trust.

One good thing that came out of the series of scandals is that employees of food makers have started to openly object to dishonest practices.

Many of the scandals, including Meat Hope's, were brought to light as a result of whistle-blowing by insiders. ...

Postimees, Tartu, Estonia, on Airbus A380

The first commercial flight of Airbus 380, the world's largest passenger plane, from Singapore to Sydney may open a new page in aviation history.

The new plane, dubbed "Superjumbo", is truly big ... with a capability of carrying up to 850 passengers.

But while being an imposing structure, the plane makes you inevitably think about the possibilities of an accident (involving new technology). We should keep in mind that the history of the mankind has witnessed many catastrophes related to new technology.

These include the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, destruction of the airship Hindenburg in 1937, the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986 and the accident involving the supersonic plane Concorde in 2000.

However, all of this is not likely to matter for those passengers who were unable to get tickets for the first (A380) flight. Convenience and speed are the key issues that count.

The Independent, London,–on marketing American football

The effort to sell "soccer" to the American public has a long and undistinguished history. The US was awarded the World Cup in 1994. They have been bombarded by pre-season tours by the cream of the Premiership. This year they even got David Beckham. For some time, the traffic has been one-way. But recently we received a little payback. The Miami Dolphins played the New York Giants at Wembley stadium as part of a US drive to sell American football to the Brits.

This is not the first visit of the NFL to these shores. The old Wembley hosted an annual pre-season exhibition game between 1986 and 1993. But this made little impact. To the typical British sports fan, American football remains something impenetrable involving shoulder pads and helmets. Will things be different this time? The NFL has made more effort, for sure. Unlike in the past, top players were in attendance. Yesterday's game also counted. This was the first competitive NFL fixture to be played outside the Americas.

The match was a sell-out. But the 1994 World Cup final at the Pasadena Rose Bowl sold out too, and the tournament itself attracted more spectators than any before or since. But what good did it do in the long term? Soccer is still regarded stateside as a game for teenage girls, despite its vast popularity among Hispanic immigrants.

We should not underestimate the power of marketing. There is a huge amount of money to be made from broadening the appeal of football in the US and the American variety over here. But at the moment our two sporting cultures feel rather like Kipling's East and West: "Never the twain shall meet".