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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and food industry international organisations have been asked to comment on draft guidelines on using antibiotic resistance marker genes in food production, drawn up by global food standards body Codex Alimentarius. This additional consultation follows pressure from the European Commission for more studies into whether these genes are safe for consumers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH commercial crime becoming ever more international, it makes sense for companies and public organisations to fight its attacks in similar ways, so they can better coordinate their efforts. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE – ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLINGS FOR ITS NAME) offers management and technical guidance to help.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FIGHTING fraud is a complex process, especially with increasing trade flows and international transactions. As a result, it is not only important that companies, public sector organisations and consumers have available detailed and comprehensive advice on how to protect themselves against fraud, but that these guidelines do not vary widely from country to country.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Shaking off fears that the American/Canadian price differential would put off book-buyers, Canadian bookshops had a good Christmas with 71% of members of the Canadian Booksellers Association reporting higher sales compared to the 2005 period. Over a quarter of all respondents said sales were up by more than 10%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a review of how extensively the European Union (EU) should use World Trade Organisation-approved antidumping, countervailing and safeguard measures. This follows difficult negotiations in the past two years over whether to protect the EU against Asian exports of clothing and footwear, pitting liberal northern European retailers, against protective southern European manufacturers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
IN the space of some five years, biofuels have grown from almost total insignificance in the European Union (EU) to becoming the only practical alternative to petrol as a fuel for motor vehicles and much else – albeit still at a very low level.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 10 million to steel company SC Donasid to help it upgrade its steel billet plant at Calarasi, south-east Romania, expanding production from a current 300,000 tons per year to its full potential of 450,000 tons.…

BY MARK ROWE
CLIMATE change is now widely accepted as taking place across the planet, with huge implications for all industries, and the energy sector is no exception. Predictions from expert weather organisations make unsettling reading: the long-range forecast is for extremes of temperatures and more violent weather, more often.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AN odd fact about Serbia today is that hardly anybody in the country seems curious about the way its official government financial figures don’t remotely add up. The authors of a US-sponsored report for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) published last October – ‘Money Laundering and Predicate Crime in Serbia 2000-2005’ – acknowledge the conventional shortages of staff and computers but say they “hit on a more fundamental void: lack of curiosity.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) fishermen will be able to harvest 10,000 tonnes of tuna and related species from Mozambique Indian Ocean waters from this year to 2012, under a new agreement negotiated by the European Commission. This new fisheries partnership agreement, replaces an agreement spanning 2004-6, assuming it is rubber stamped by EU ministers.…