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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rapid consumer alert service RASFF has warned of a spate of aflatoxin contamination in peanuts, groundnuts and hazelnuts from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Brazil and China, and in Turkish dried figs.

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BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

SINCE March 2005, Operation White Whale, an extensive international anti-money-laundering operation spearheaded by the Spain’s National Police (the Policia Nacional), has produced the arrest of 57 people and the laundering of at least Euro 250 million euros obtained through illegal drug trafficking, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry (Ministerio del Interior).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) is to lend Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, US$10 million, and has earmarked an additional US$5 million stand-by loan, to help it establish a business school and to expand enrolment generally. The money will also help create a new information technology centre and an adult distance learning system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) general council has permanently amended the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement to make permanent a 2003 waiver helping poor countries obtain generic medicines during health emergencies. The TRIPS amendment enables any WTO member country to export generic pharmaceuticals made under a compulsory licence to assist countries lacking their own manufacturing capacity and whose nurses and doctors would otherwise be unable to deal with a serious disease problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s consumer alert service RAPEX has reported the voluntary withdrawal from distribution from German stores of a Turkey-made shampoo range ‘Hobby Collection Baby Shampoo’, both blue and pink bottles. RAPEX reported "presence of excessive quantities of pseudomonas aeruginosa", and non-compliance with the European Union cosmetic product directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has identified eight priority countries as sources of counterfeit goods as the focus of special diplomatic efforts to pressure their governments to deal with the problem. China, Thailand, the Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia will receive encouragement and advice on fighting counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research project has developed a packing system for large items such as furniture and stone flooring that uses recyclable plastic and which is designed to boost its recovery. Companies from Italy, Spain and Turkey have created this environment-friendly robotic system under the umbrella of Eureka, a pan-European research network.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend the Erdemir Group’s Erdemir and Isdemir Iron & Steel Works. Co. up to Euro 200 million to convert, modernise and expand the Turkish company’s production capacity at its Eregli and Iskenderum plants.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights is hearing a case brought by Turkey’s Bosphorus Airways against Ireland, which it says broke European human rights rules by seizing a plane in 1993 it had leased from Yugoslav Airlines when Yugoslavia was under UN sanctions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOMING demand for beer in Russia has encouraged the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to lend Euro 7.9 million to help expand and restructure a Turkish-owned bottling plant. The money will be spent on OJSC Pokrov Glass Plant, in northwest Russia, which was bought by Turkey’s Anadolu Cam last March.…