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KILLER ONIONS
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.…
NANOTECHNOLOGY CRITICISM (ROUND UP)
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE nanotechnology technology has been trialled in the United States, effectively spraying a protective crystal crust on a New Mexico mountainside that had been left exposed to erosion by a fire. Its flames destroyed 5,000 acres of land considered sacred by the Taos Pueblo Native Indian group.…
FTAA TALKS HIT SNAG
BY PHILIP FINE
THE GOVERNMENTS of 34 countries from the Americas will be struggling today (Wed19/11) to come to a draft trade agreement, much of which centres on agricultural subsidies. The Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting being held in Miami has seen two competing camps vying for control.…
PECTIN EXTRACTION
BY PHILIP FINE
THE USA could become a major pectin producer after a Penn State University (Pennsylvania) researcher developed a process to extract high-quality pectin from orange peels. The complex carbohydrate, used to thicken jellies and fruit fillings, has been traditionally slow cooked by Europeans using lime peels imported from Mexico and south America.…
NANOTECHNOLOGY CRITICISM (ROUND UP)
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE nanotechnology technology has been trialled in the United States, effectively spraying a protective crystal crust on a New Mexico mountainside that had been left exposed to erosion by a fire. Its flames destroyed 5,000 acres of land considered sacred by the Taos Pueblo Native Indian group.…
NEW MEXICO TAX
BY MONICA DOBIE
AUTHORITIES in the USA’s New Mexico have introduced plans to drastically raise taxes on all alcoholic beverages sold. Its congress has proposed a “dime a drink tax” (ten cents per drink) intended to raise funds to introduce more detoxification centres for alcoholics and educational programs in the state.…
NEW MEXICO TAX
BY MONICA DOBIE
STATE legislators in New Mexico, the USA, are currently debating a plan to drastically raise taxes on all alcoholic beverages sold. Its congress has proposed a “dime a drink tax” (ten cents per drink), which has been framed to raise funds to open more detoxification centres for problem drinkers and educational programmes in the state.…
BALONEY SMUGGLING
BY PHILIP FINE
UNITED States border authorities on the lookout for a new food smuggling racket from Mexico, after customs officials discovered an operation that involved one light truck and 756 pounds of processed sandwich meat. US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 81 rolls of Mexican baloney on Texas’s Paso Del Norte bridge from Juarez, Mexico.…
UN CRIME CONVENTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.
THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…
WTO NEGOTIATIONS PUSH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released proposals to liberalise the global cotton trade, aimed at helping to restart the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, following September’s inconclusive summit at Cancun, Mexico. Brussels has promised to offer an end to its export subsidies for European Union cotton producers and also to push for a specific implementation timetable to be agreed during the talks for scrapping such payments worldwide.…