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PINK SALMON DYE
BY PHILIP FINE
THREE potentially expensive class-action lawsuits have been filed against large US grocery chains, Kroger, Safeway and Albertsons over the colour of their salmon. The lawsuits, filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle, Washington state, on behalf of shoppers seeks a court order requiring the chains to inform shoppers that the farmed salmon they sell has been dyed pink.…
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CORP
BY PHILIP FINE
TEXAS-BASED Rocky Mountain Energy Corp has been placed in receivership after the USA Securities and Exchange Commission accused the small company of pumping up its stock price by issuing numerous press releases about deals to buy valuable oil and gas properties.…
FUEL CELL POWER
BY PHILIP FINE
TO improve air quality, the City of Los Angeles has unveiled a new power plant that runs on fuel-cell technology. It is estimated that the plant, built by FuelCell Energy, Inc and which sends electricity to the City’s power grid, will reduce annual LA carbon dioxide emissions by 1.2 million pounds.…
BOLIVIA MINE AID
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AREA of northern Bolivia is to be the focus of an innovative Canadian aid mission designed to offer advice on preventing landslides in communities pock-marked with small mines, notably those for gold prospecting.
Canada will fund a team of scientists to help the community of Chima, a remote gold-mining village that was hit by a deadly landslide last month; the specialists want to ensure that they do not suffer from a repeat the tragedy and to help such communities better deal with such disasters, if they do occur.…
ORGANIC FOOD
BY PHILIP FINE
A CONTROVERSIAL regulation that had angered the American organic meat lobby has been axed. US President George W Bush has repealed Section 771 of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which would have allowed organic livestock producers to feed animals less than 100 per cent organic feed and still market the resulting meat, dairy and poultry products as organic.…
TYSON FOODS
BY PHILIP FINE
US poultry companies, including Tyson Foods, Cobb-Vantress, Peterson Farms, Simmons Foods, Cargill, and George’s, have ordered their chicken suppliers in Arkansas to stop spreading chicken litter on fields, following a water-pollution case. The waste allegedly helped foul water in the state’s northwest region.…
KFC WELFARE
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN chicken chain KFC has adopted eight humane guidelines for its suppliers that address breeding, hatching and raising of poultry, including adequate growth space and routine inspections of facilities. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) group claims the new promised standards would still involve much "pain" for chickens.…
TAPEWORMS STUDIES
BY PHILIP FINE
RESEARCHERS from the USA’s University of Wisconsin-Madison have isolated a chemical signal from tapeworms that may help prolong the time it takes for medicines to move through the small intestine. Known as cyclic GMP, the signal helps the tapeworm slow down the muscle activity of the fast-sweeping intestine.…
KRAFT FOODS
BY PHILIP FINE
KRAFT Foods wants the US government to make sure GM crops being grown to make pharmaceuticals steer clear from the food supply. The food industry giant said if the American federal government refuses to outlaw pharmaceutical crops, it wants there to be "every regulation possible" to avoid commingling of species.…
US PROTECTIONISM
BY PHILIP FINE
THE AMERICAN Bar Association is pushing US state governments to pass laws protecting the position of lawyers to handle legal work in their jurisdictions, forcing competing professions to drop paralegal services. On Friday (March 28), an ABA task force released a proposed definition on the practice of law that should only be carried out by certified lawyers, which it would like codified and incorporated into states’ regulations.…