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BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE USA dominates the world’s soft-drinks markets with its Coca Cola, Pepsi and affiliated brands, so can the big players in the European bottled mineral water industry achieve a similar success with brands such as Evian, Volvic and Perrier?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT supporting research into new technologies for food distribution has been signed by the EU, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.…

Keith Nuthall
CENTRAL American coffee producers are to receive aid worth US$ millions from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, who have agreed to re-allocate money from rural development budgets worth US$500 million, at the request of local governments, to help coffee-producing areas.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA’S Environmental Protection Agency is looking to add certain waste materials, now classified as hazardous, to their programme promoting alternative fuels.

The EPA is trying to expand the country’s use of gasification, a process that puts materials under high temperatures to convert them into synthetic gas.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICA’S Washington and Oregon state-based Thrift Way supermarket chain is to introduce fingerprint scanning to authorise payments, speeding up checkout queues. The new biometric technology is also designed to prevent credit card fraud. Readers on credit-card machines at checkouts check customers’ fingerprints and send encrypted data to data centres operated by Indivos, the company providing the service.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A MINE operation in Kentucky that saw a major slurry spill in the autumn of 2000 failed to properly follow a plan that had been implemented after a disaster six years earlier, according to a recently released report.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AFTER pressure from the licensed beverage industry, America’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has admitted it overestimated its figures on underage drinkers. CASA had released a report stating that underage people drink 25 percent of the beverage alcohol consumed in the United States.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new proposals for a comprehensive policy on biotechnology wobble precariously on a political and economic tightrope. Launched in January this year with the aim of provoking serious discussion throughout 2002, this action plan faces the nutcracker pressure of a Europe about to expand rapidly to take on countries with agriculture in varying states, and an America that is striding ahead, gobbling up the world markets for genetically altered or developed crops.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Departments of Energy and the Interior are joining forces to use oil from federally leased land in the Gulf of Mexico for America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency crude oil stockpile. Equiva Trading Co. of Houston won the contract to supply additional oil, upping the reserve by 18.6 million barrels.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MITSUBISHI Motor Sales of Canada has announced it will move its operations into Canada in September, six months ahead of scheduled date. Greg O’Neill, executive vice president and general manager of Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America Inc.…