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BY MONICA DOBIE
SMOKING bans can significantly improve the health of restaurant and bar workers according to research performed by the USA’s University of Kentucky. Researchers collected and analysed hair samples of service workers in Lexington, Kentucky, four months before a municipal public place smoke-free law took effect and then three months after the enactment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE THREE key international organisations fighting bird flu have agreed a global strategy preventing the disease spreading worldwide and jumping species to humans. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) – the animal health organisation – approved the plan at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.…

BY MARK ROWE
INSURERS have given a cautious welcome to a European Parliament directive intended to bolster port security across the continent, and which will see airport-style check-in procedures for ferry passengers and an expansion of the area around ports where security must be applied.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KEY international organisations fighting bird flu have agreed a global strategy preventing the disease spreading worldwide and jumping species to humans. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) – the animal health organisation – approved the plan at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THAT criminals abuse the insurance industry is nothing new for a sector routinely screening claims for hints of fraud. However, its managers have proved far less alert to the risk of it being exploited by money launderers and terrorist financers, a new detailed report has claimed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA launch of a new “safer” cigarette called Fact that sports a filter cutting out harmful chemicals has been delayed because of fears the marketing of the product could mislead consumers into thinking it was “safe”. The cigarette referred to as a PREP, (potentially reduced-exposure product), was to be manufactured by an independent tobacco company in North Carolina, US, called the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that it reverses a change of customs designation for frozen boneless chicken cut imports. The Brazilian government had protested about the reclassification of cuts with 1.2% or more salt content from salted to frozen meat, which attracts higher duty.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission official has told Accountancy Age that the ‘high level tax group’ set up to consider the implications of the Marks & Spencer tax case may be just “gesture politics”, given the difficulties of making reforms to the European Union’s (EU) court system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is an oft-quoted truism that where the money goes criminals follow, and, sadly, this is true of the insurance sector. The industry is not only growing in size, it is offering increasingly complex products and spreading its tentacles into further flung reaches of developing and emerging markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has blamed increased coal consumption for electricity generation as a key factor explaining the increase of 1.5% in greenhouse gas emissions within the European Union (EU) in 2003, compared with 2002. The 1.3% increase in the old 15-member EU equals an additional 53 million tonnes; 24 million tonnes came from a 2.1% emissions increase by energy companies, including “coal consumption…growth”.…