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BY KEITH NUTHALL
Delegates to the annual meeting of the Institution for Occupational Safety and Health in Manchester this week were told of “serious setbacks” in the struggle to make Britain’s workplaces less dangerous. “Not only has a plateau effect in national accident trends been noticed but in some sectors things have actually worsened,” said Mr David Eves, who was deputy director of the Health and Safety Executive between 1989 and 2002 and is now IOSH Hon vice president.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to order tests on all imports of shrimps from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, (Burma),and poultry from Thailand to ensure antibiotic residues do not exceed EU health limits, following concerns raised by spot-checks on cargoes from these countries.…

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 AND MONICA DOBIE
CONSIDERING the high value of many cargos shipped around the world, a rational observer might assume that pirates would ignore fishing boats in favour of vessels carrying spices, cigarettes, alcohol, metals or electrical goods. Not so.…

BY PHILIP FINE

YES, whole oat products and foods containing psyllium will lower cholesterol levels and reduce heart disease, says the American Council on Science and Health. In a new booklet that takes most of the health claims for functional foods to task, they also agree that soy foods and foods made with soy protein have shown the same health benefits.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN food manufacturers will in the long term see a fall in prices if a US$45.1 billion US farm bill becomes law next week, says the European Commission, but not before world markets are glutted with foods. The bill calls for an increase in crop and dairy subsidies to farmers and for mandatory country-of-origin labeling for meat, fruit, vegetables, fish and peanuts.…

Keith Nuthall
THE DRINKS industry is being asked by the European Commission whether it would like the EU rules governing the size of bottles for wines and spirits to be liberalised. At present, wines may only be sold in the EU in 25, 37.5, 50, 75 cl bottles and a few more units of one litre or more.…

BY PHILIP FINE

BOTOX can now be sold as a temporary wrinkle remover in America, after the popular injection received approval as a cosmetic by the US Food and Drug Administration. The product, which short-circuits electrical messages from the brain to facial nerve endings, is derived from a purified form of the toxin that causes botulism.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A STRING of cases have been launched by the European Commission against Member States of the European Union to try and force them to comply with EU water legislation; under existing rules, failure to abide by the court’s rulings can see national governments being hit with huge daily recurring fines of up to Euro 100,000.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has approved a US$5.6 million credit to fund a Pilot Fishery Development Project, to boost the development of fish farming in Albania, one of Europe’s poorest countries. The scheme also aims at improving the country’s wild fishery sector.…