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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has reported USA claims of now being completely free of bird flu. The country’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service says the outbreak in Texas in April in a non-commercial flock and two live bird markets has been “completely eradicated”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AWARD to Cyprus of the key European Commission health and consumer affairs portfolio could signal a waning of Brussels’ enthusiasm for tougher food safety, environmental health and consumer protection rules. Cypriot Markos Kyprianou, 44, has been given the job in the new Commission that takes office in November.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT might be one of the world’s smallest countries but you could hardly ask for a more emphatic turnaround from villain to hero in the fight against money laundering than Liechtenstein has managed over the last five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has issued a technical report, advising businesses on safeguarding the trustworthiness of electronically-stored information, including policies, security measures, procedures, and audit trials. It describes procedures whereby an electronic copy may be demonstrated to be a true copy of a data file or a physical document.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COUNCIL of Europe’s committee of ministers has adopted the “first international text harmonising ethical and legal standards in biomedical research”. Once ratified, the protocol will cover the non-EU council’s 45 council member countries, including Russia. It sets standards concerning acceptable risks for research participants, and details information they should receive before giving their consent.…

BY KEITN NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released two standards helping clothing manufacturers check the effectiveness of protective garments and the materials used to make them. They lay down laboratory tests measuring the penetration resistance of clothing materials to blood, body fluids and other potentially infectious materials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) International Ship and Port Facility Security Code came into force (on July 1) with only 71% of tankers under the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (INTERTANKO) certified in compliance. Insurers fear non-compliant ships could be barred from some ports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF has proposed creating an EU FraudNet system, allowing other national and international law enforcement teams to exchange information about financial crime in international aid programmes. This would resemble the USA General Accounting Office’s FraudNET, where whistle-blowers report allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement of federal government funds by e-mail, fax or post.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*Bulky and long-necked, it has a 140cm wingspan, brown above and white below, with a black stripe down the sides of its neck.

*Three sub-species, in the Canary Islands, North Africa, and the Sinai Peninsula to Arabia, into Central Asia.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WE don’t need reminding that industry is generally harmful to the environment but less understood is the potentially quite damaging ecological effect of rising agricultural production throughout the world. This theme came through pretty loud and clear at the Consumers, Farmers and Food conference held at the Royal Institute of International Affairs last week (5-6/July), in London.…