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KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission officials have claimed a breakthrough in the recently resumed talks on a European Union (EU)-United States open skies deal. Brussels newswires have reported both sides have agreed cabotage flights both in America and the EU. The agreement however must be approved by the EU Council of Ministers (not guaranteed) and depends on Washington allowing more foreign ownership of its airlines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COSMETICS, perfume and personal hygiene companies in the Mercosur region of South America will have to stage annual health inspections of their manufacturing systems under a resolution agreed by member states Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. These will have to demonstrate that companies are following prescribed Mercosur standards of good practice, with written reports being produced by in-house laboratories, detailing results and any reforms that are required.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ON July 31 this year the European Union’s (EU) Tobacco Advertising Directive came into effect, making it illegal to advertise tobacco products in the print media, radio and over the Internet within the EU. Also banned was tobacco sponsorship of cross-border cultural and sporting events.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BURGERS and pork pies could become healthier by adding a tasteless but fibre-rich extract from seaweed, scientists from the University of Newcastle have claimed. Their research has examined a brown seaweed Lessonia and Laminaria, found in east Asia, south America, Norway and Scotland.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
STANDFIRST

AMERICA’S post 9/11 AML legislation does not only affect the formal banking sector, it controls other savings and investment institutions too, and in different ways. Alan Osborn reports.

MUTUAL FUNDS

ALTHOUGH there have been some complaints, by and large America’s mutual funds have accepted with reasonable grace the anti money laundering legislation brought in by the US government since the September 11 attacks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the import into the European Union (EU) of a genetically modified oilseed rape GT73 for animal feed. Brussels will also allow the Monsanto developed rape to be processed in the EU. It is tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate, and, said the Commission, “is already widely used in North America with no reports of any adverse effects on health or the environment”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$150 million to Brazil petrochemical company Ipiranga Petroquimica SA, one of Latin America’s leading producers of polyolefins. The loan will support initiatives including “process improvements and debottlenecking of operations”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AFTER twenty years of haggling, a deal on wine has been reached by the European Union (EU) and the United States under which the EU will accept existing American wine-making practices such as adding malic acid to correct deficient acidity (common in California) and the use of oak wood chips during ageing.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NAMED America’s fruit basket, the San Joaquin Valley in California ranks among the top three regions of the US with the dirtiest air, alongside traffic-clogged Los Angeles and Houston. Among lush green meadows, with fruits crops dancing in the breeze, is an environmental disaster caused by 2.5 million cows, said a recent report, by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN IRISH company’s plan to help 1,600 meat and dairy producers in Latin America adopt technology capturing and disposing of methane, creating saleable carbon credits, has been supported by a US$10 million International Finance Corporation loan. AgCert International plc wants to spend US$150 million on rolling out these systems.…