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BY MARK ROWE
THAI canneries are looking to invest in re-exporting north American wild salmon as a means of boosting revenue. Companies are planning to promote exports of wild salmon, which have been processed in Thailand in favour of farmed salmon, usually supplied from Norway, Chile and Scotland.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US state of Maine recently passed a landmark bill that for the first

time forces automotive manufacturers to pay for the removal of mercury from

vehicles. Auto makers will now be responsible for removing and disposing of

mercury-added components, such as switches in boot and bonnet lights, before vehicles are crushed or shredded for recycling

Despite 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each

year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws

concerning car recycling.…

BY PHILIP FINE

DESPITE 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws concerning car recycling. There have, however, been new binding rules emerging at state level.…

BY MICHAEL FOX
DIPLOMATS at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York say that the troubled Iraq Oil for Food Programme is in danger of running into serious problems once again unless alleged ambiguities and contradictions in the current system are sorted out.…

BY MARK ROWE
MUSEUMS and research institutions are being warned that they risk losing vast amounts of digital information unless new techniques are developed to conserve the material.

Until recently all that was needed to archive information recorded in traditional forms such as the printed page, analogue tape or film was the physical storage place to house the material.…

BTY MARK ROWE
THIS summer saw a watershed for BAT that may prove to be one of the most significant in the company’s 100-year history. It produced a Social Report, all 156 pages of it, outlining the company’s views on the sensitive issues that surround the business of producing tobacco.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SHIPPING safety stands to be improved due to the recent launch of the United Nations Atlas of the Oceans. The atlas is an Internet based encyclopaedic resource that will enable seafarers to access information in real time, to find out about weather, dangerous routes, sea collisions, the state of ocean resources, maps, emergencies and threats to human health from deteriorating marine environment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration has told three online pharmacies – Ashland Drugs, Mississippi, Bird’s Hill Pharmacy, Massachusetts, and the Compounding Pharmacy, Illinois – to stop selling nicotine impregnated lollipops via the Internet. The FDA said it acted because the nicotine sweets are dispensed without a doctor’s prescription, contain a non-approved form of nicotine called salicylate, and because the products could be accidentally used by children.…

MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA is calling for a review of plans to cut tariffs across south-east Asia, claiming that lower tariffs will affect its car production, particular the Proton series. The south-east Asian country has been given until 2005 to bring tariffs on imported cars down to between zero and five per cent, two years later than other key members of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), of the United Nations, is promoting the use of so-called International Chemical Safety Cards, which are designed to reduce the risk of industrial accidents in companies using chemicals. Each card summarises essential health and safety information on chemicals for their use at work.*More…