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BY PHILIP FINE

HEAVYWEIGHT cargo specialists, Emery Worldwide Airlines, has been sentenced for violating America’s Hazardous Material Transportation Act. The company admitted that on 12 occasions it failed to provide proper notice to its pilots that they were transporting dangerous goods, including nuclear material.…

BY PHILIP FINE

MANY key players in the US drinks industry have been trying to crash the low-carb party currently making aspects of the country’s food industry giddy with sales. The drinks producers have seen the statistics: 15 per cent of Americans (32 million people) are now following high-protein reduced-carbohydrate plans such as the Atkins Diet; sales of high protein items like meat, cheese and eggs are up and high carb products like potatoes and pasta are down or stagnant; and over 800 new products that make low-carb claims have been introduced in the last three years.…

BY PHILIP FINE

PATRICK Graham has been elected chairman of the 2004 Board of Directors of Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA). Graham, who will oversee a 22-member board, is executive director of the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.

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BY PHILIP FINE

OBESITY is costing America US$75 billion (GBPounds 41.4 billion) a year in medical treatments, a recent study has found. According to researchers at RTI International and the US Centers for Disease Control, the estimated percentage of annual health expenditures in each state attributable to obesity ranges from four per cent in Arizona to 6.7 percent in Alaska.…

BY PHILIP FINE

GAP Inc has joined a group of American corporations that have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The clothing retailer, which also owns the Banana Republic and Old Navy brands, last month signed on to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders’, a group that now numbers 54.…

BY RICHARD HURST
Nigeria is widely regarded as the country as the hub of money-laundering activities in the region, despite having a reasonably comprehensive set of anti-money laundering laws in place. Press and non-governmental organisation reports have highlighted cases where Nigerian banks have been hit by money launderers trying to conceal illicit earnings from corruption, the arms trade, narcotics and the e-mail frauds.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of the obesity drug Xenical for adolescents, the first time a weight loss drug has been allowed to treat children in America, of whom 15 per cent are obese.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA realises it has a collective weight problem. And given that 64 per cent of the US population is overweight or obese and the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children, the confectionary industry is most certainly in the firing line.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SEIZURES of counterfeit pharmaceuticals by customs officers of the 15 EU countries rose “significantly” in 2002 and the trend has continued so far this year, the European Commission has reported. Pharmaceuticals are not identified separately in statistics on pirated goods, but form the largest part of the “other goods” category where seizures have risen from 42 million in 2001 to 59 million in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL disasters cost the world US$60 billion in 2003, up from around US$55 billion the previous year, a Munich Re assessment for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed. The bulk of this year’s losses were caused by weather-related catastrophes, said UNEP, which is linking them with global warming.…