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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST BSE discovery in Canada has inspired the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF)/United Stockgrowers of America organisation to sue the US Agriculture Department to prevent imports of Canadian cattle and beef products.

R-CALF says Canadian imports pose health risks to people and cows, costing American producers up to US$3 billion in lost demand.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A LINKED system that treats, filters and conserves fresh water in networks of fish farming tanks has been developed by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the United States. It is designed to support multiple rearing tanks connected to a centralised water filtration and treatment system, maintaining water quality while recirculating up to about 90% of tank water.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SEPTEMBER 11 attacks sparked a tightening of security restrictions around the world and the shipping industry has been a key focus. The latest initiative is the creation of a global system of biometric identifiers for seafarers. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL alliance of environmental and conservation organisations, led by the United Nations Environment Programme, is developing maps pinpointing lakes, marshes and other wetlands, where wild birds potentially infected with bird flu are likely to fly, helping health authorities prevent and plan for outbreaks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL tea production in 2003 reached a record high of 3.15 million tonnes, 75,000 tonnes more than in 2002, and although traded tea fell by 2.6% to 1.4 million tonnes, prices remained stable, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is sending legal and accounting specialists to Nigeria and Kenya, to help them trace and recover money stolen by previous corrupt governments. The Vienna-based agency says it will “conduct in-depth assessments of the institutional and legal frameworks” in these countries, making detailed proposals to “overcome obstacles to asset recovery”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has advised aid agencies to prioritise energy projects, because they can save rural people time to concentrate on generating wealth. “Rural women spend hours gathering fuel-wood, (and) inefficiently processing food”, said a UNDP official.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AGREEMENT struck between the European Commission and the United States over the transfer of passenger data to American law enforcement authorities is expected to be approved, having been accepted by an EU data protection committee – the ‘Article 31 Group’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has demanded at the World Trade Organisation that the European Union (EU) hands over an unpublished political agreement between its member government to impose quotas on imports of natural and enriched uranium. Washington claims that this 1994 ‘Corfu Declaration’ effectively blocks imports for 80% of the European enriched uranium market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) appellate body has dismissed an appeal brought by the United States claiming that a WTO disputes erred when it ruled against Washington’s renewal of anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG).…