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BY MONICA DOBIE
AN ONLINE database of information on how pathogenic bacteria respond to different environmental conditions in food has been established by Britain’s Institute of Food Research and the Eastern Regional Research Centre’s Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, in the United States.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) sub-committee on fish trade has ordered the promotion of cost-effective and global standards to trace a fish’s progress through the commercial chain, from harvesting to consumption. At a meeting in Bremen, Germany, many national representatives expressed concerns about health and safety issues affecting the international fish trade, including consumer perceptions over problems such as antibiotic residues in farmed fish.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Australia have struck a free trade deal that will ease access into the US market for Australian wool exporters. A note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “For our wool industry, an industry priority of zero tariff for greasy wool, a premier Australian export industry, will be achieved within four years, and for other wool items within 10 years.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIA and the United States have agreed to mutually remove tariffs on textile and clothing traded between them, with duties on products meeting set rules of origin standards being phased out within 15 years. This, said a US Trade Representative Office note on a new American-Australian free trade deal, would “promote new opportunities for US and Australian fibre, yarn, fabric and apparel manufacturing.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN spirit producers are toning their marketing muscles these days because of the broader scope for advertising they have enjoyed since the end of a prohibition-hangover induced 50-year self-imposed ban on electronic media advertising.

It has only been since 1996 – when this Seagram defied this moratorium – that distillers have been able to realise this advertising potential.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US government has been urged to further tighten safeguards on meat and animal feed by an independent international panel, made up of five scientists from Europe, New Zealand and the United States. It has recommended that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) test all high-risk cattle, such as those that die on farms or are too ill to walk, and also do random sampling of healthy cattle more than 30 months old.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRALIAN aluminium industry will be a key beneficiary of a new free trade deal between its government and the USA that removes all tariffs on metals traded between the two countries, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce is fighting a legal decision it fears could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with a negligible impact on the USA. It has filed an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a DC Court of Appeals ruling allowing non-US plaintiffs to bring foreign anti-trust claims to American courts.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ABUSE of drugs and alcohol in the workplace may be a growing concern in European Union (EU) countries but there seems little evidence that the relevant authorities are unduly alarmed by it. An informal survey by Occupational Health of organisations and government departments suggests that little attempt has been made so far to assess the scale of the problem, still less to devise legislation aimed at workers, as distinct from society in general.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT will be several years before Canada’s trading partners admit Canadian live cattle, according to a report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The document – written after BSE was detected Alberta, but before its discovery in the United States – suggests that effective diplomacy will be needed to convince countries, rather than more scientific measures.…