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BY MONICA DOBIE
A SHIPMENT of green onions from Mexico has recently killed three people and sickened more than 600 in the United States. The onions – served up at Mexican restaurant chain Chi Chi’s – carried the Hepatitis A virus.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States will become the largest wine market in the world by the end of the decade, according to the California-based Wine Institute. Currently, only France and Italy have more demand for wine and last year, whilst wine consumption dropped to 370 million cases in France, American consumers drank 14 million more cases, rising to 250 million cases.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States government has integrated information on all its consumer product recalls onto one central website, offering a convenient service to retailers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has launched the English and Spanish-language site (www.recalls.gov) in collaboration with five other federal agencies.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has tightened its meat import quotas for 2004 as part of a policy to cut food imports and encourage domestic livestock breeding. The Russian Meat Union said the approach had helped its poultry sector in 2003 and was being now being extended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ETHIOPIA is to receive US$1.2 million’s worth of medicines from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to fight high rates of malaria infections in the country’s Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and ‘Southern Nations, Nationalities and People Regional’ states. This worst outbreak since 1998 is being compounded by serious malnutrition following a drought.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada are resisting European Union (EU) calls to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) assessment of whether new laws restricting the sale of beef containing hormones has brought the EU into compliance with a WTO ruling on the issue.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a guide for the US pharmaceutical industry, named “Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions.” The document was created to help drug companies comply with a new FDA recommendation that requires firms to submit results of genomic tests when seeking approval for new drugs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROTRACTED talks between the United States and the European Union (EU) over allowable oenological practices are continuing to drag on, with the European Commission proposing that US exporters should be allowed to sell wine made in ways banned in the EU for another year (until December 2004).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CEO of the Coca-Cola Company Douglas N. Daft has been appointed as co-chairman of a United States-European Union joint-body charged with making suggestions on removing barriers hindering trade. Mr Daft will co-chair the Transatlantic Business Dialogue for 2004-5 with Unilever chairman Niall FitzGerald.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been negotiated between the European Commission and the United States that should create common pre-shipment clearance shipments for goods shipped between the European Union (EU) and the US. If EU ministers agree, it would tell European and American exporters to provide sufficient information about goods to allow “sophisticated targeting” of security checks, prior to shipping.…