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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has launched its eighth decision-making session at its headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, a meeting which will see discussions on harvesting minerals from the deep sea. A technical workshop meeting is expected to propose specific international research projects on how mineral extraction might harm the deep ocean environment.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN dyers and finishers are celebrating after the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act was amended by US House of Representatives to clarify the definition of US fabric bought by Caribbean clothing manufacturers wishing to take advantage of the law’s preferential trade terms.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau is warning ships captains to avoid the Somalia coast because of the risk of attacks by pirates and kidnappers. The piracy-fighting arm of the International Chamber of Commerce has warned: “Ships unlucky enough to develop engine trouble after straying too close to the shores of Somalia are virtually certain to fall victim to armed gangs who will extort a stiff ransom from the owners.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN INTERNATIONAL campaign group Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has recently published a report claiming that in tests, 52 out of 72 name brand beauty products contained industrial chemicals known as phthalates; HCWH claims these can cause birth defects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s industry committee has approved a European Commission proposal that the European Union and Euratom should sign up to the International Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved in principle the passage of a directive on “occurrence reporting in civil aviation,” which will provide for the circulation of information about near misses amongst Member States.

This law will now be passed to the European Parliament, for its first reading; it would tell governments to draw up mandatory and confidential reports on incidents, defects and malfunctions which may constitute a hazard for civil aviation.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN clothing manufacturers are lamenting amendments passed to the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act by US House of Representatives to clarify the definition of US fabric bought by Caribbean clothing manufacturers wishing to take advantage of the law’s preferential trade terms.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of rounds of public consultation has been launched by the European Commission on detailed guidelines for clinical trials on medicinal products. These include rules on good clinical practice, ethics committee procedures, authorisation requests, making amendments to applications and guidance on the collection, verification and presentation of adverse reaction reports arising from clinical trials on medicinal products for human use.…