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EXXON
BY PHILIP FINE
US petrol station giant Exxon Mobil is attempting to curb underage smoking. It will now require sales assistants to check the identification of anyone who appears younger than 27 years old, so as to not sell cigarettes to those under 18.…
SLAVES CASE
BY PHILIP FINE
CIGARETTE companies are bracing themselves for a legal assault from the distant past, by American descendants of black slaves. They filed lawsuits in New York and California on September 3, demanding that 12 corporations pay back profits reaped from the work of their enslaved ancestors.…
AIRLINE QUESTIONS
BY PHILIP FINE
THOSE droned airline check-in counter questions are to become history in the USA. "Has anyone unknown to you asked you to carry an item on this flight?" and "Have any of the items you are traveling with been out of your immediate control since the time you packed them?"…
LUGGAGE EXPLOSIVES
BY PHILIP FINE
Directors of 133 U.S. airports have urged American senators to
delay a requirement that all passenger luggage be screened for explosives by Dec.
31st. The airport managers signed a letter on Aug. 19th saying the federal
agency responsible for the mammoth security overhaul will not be able to
meet the cutoff date without creating major air traffic problems.”The…
PLYWOOD SALE
BY PHILIP FINE
US building supplier Louisiana-Pacific Corporation is selling its plywood operations. It has announced it will transfer ownership of its Texas and Louisiana plywood mills to Georgia-Pacific for a GP strand board mill, in Woodland, Maine, and some "additional consideration."…
AVIATION SECURITY FEATURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND PHILIP FINE
IN the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, the shocking images of two planes slamming into two of the most famous buildings in the world fuelled a strong desire tighten up security systems around the world, especially in civil aviation.…
CEMENT DUST
BY PHILIP FINE
THE UNITED States Environmental Protection Agency is expected to soon reclassify the fine powder that cement companies collect in their manufacturing process as a non-hazardous waste. It says it will temporarily suspend listing cement kiln dust (CKD) as a hazardous waste under federal environmental regulations, and will wait and see if state government regulatory programmes evolve over the next three to five years as a result.…
LIVESTOCK
BY PHILIP FINE
An American company that normally supplies its breeding services to
livestock producers has been developing a sideline serving the
pharmaceutical industry. Its leap into biotech could offer a
glimpse of how the meat and livestock trade might discover some future
crossover
business.…
US CHICKEN CASE
BY PHILIP FINE
ONE of the United States’ largest chicken processors has settled a class-action lawsuit and will now compensate its workers for time spent, unpaid, preparing and cleaning up for their work-shifts. In a case likely to be watched by British trades unions and law firms, Perdue Farms Inc.…
FDA
BY PHILIP FINE
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating
inspection rules for pharmaceutical products in an effort to improve the
safety and efficiency of production and restore consumer and manufacturer
confidence in the agency.
The planned revision of the current "good manufacturing practice
Program" comes in the wake of several recent incidents that have shaken
confidence in
drugs manufacture in the US.…