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BY PHILIP FINE

THE US government has been urged to further tighten safeguards on meat and animal feed by an independent international panel, made up of five scientists from Europe, New Zealand and the United States. It has recommended that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) test all high-risk cattle, such as those that die on farms or are too ill to walk, and also do random sampling of healthy cattle more than 30 months old.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA should triple its air capacity to adapt to changes in the next 15 to 20 years, says the US Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta. He said immediate expansions in airport and air traffic control facilities to deal with growing numbers of jet taxis, private jets, airliner traffic and unmanned aerial vehicles.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THIEVES looking to cash in on the current high prices of industrial scrap non-ferrous metals have stolen more than CDN$2 million (US$1.49 million) worth of nickel and aluminium in Montreal Canada. Several thousand kilograms of nickel cathodes and roughly 3.6 tonnes of aluminium were carted off in separate night raids in what police have identified as “professional heists”.…

BY PHILIP FINE

OBESITY is costing America US$75 billion (GBPounds 41.4 billion) a year in medical treatments, a recent study has found. According to researchers at RTI International and the US Centers for Disease Control, the estimated percentage of annual health expenditures in each state attributable to obesity ranges from four per cent in Arizona to 6.7 percent in Alaska.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating a proposed deal effectively allying the European Union’s (EU) two companies enriching uranium for the nuclear industry. Brussels fears the purchase by France’s Areva of a 50 per cent stake in the Enrichment Technology Company from German-Dutch-British Urenco could cut competition and raise nuclear fuel prices, given enrichment represents about 35 per cent of fuel production costs and seven per cent for nuclear electricity generally.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is a two-word prefix that seems to be coming out of every American food manufacturer’s new-product department: Low-Carb.

The US is fighting an obesity problem. A staggering (in some cases – literally) 64 per cent of the population is overweight and the number of people carrying more than 100 pounds over their ideal weight has quadrupled in the last 20 years to one in every hundred.…

BY RICHARD HURST
Nigeria is widely regarded as the country as the hub of money-laundering activities in the region, despite having a reasonably comprehensive set of anti-money laundering laws in place. Press and non-governmental organisation reports have highlighted cases where Nigerian banks have been hit by money launderers trying to conceal illicit earnings from corruption, the arms trade, narcotics and the e-mail frauds.…

BY PHILIP FINE

MANY key players in the US drinks industry have been trying to crash the low-carb party currently making aspects of the country’s food industry giddy with sales. The drinks producers have seen the statistics: 15 per cent of Americans (32 million people) are now following high-protein reduced-carbohydrate plans such as the Atkins Diet; sales of high protein items like meat, cheese and eggs are up and high carb products like potatoes and pasta are down or stagnant; and over 800 new products that make low-carb claims have been introduced in the last three years.…

BY PHILIP FINE

GAP Inc has joined a group of American corporations that have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The clothing retailer, which also owns the Banana Republic and Old Navy brands, last month signed on to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders’, a group that now numbers 54.…

BY PHILIP FINE

PATRICK Graham has been elected chairman of the 2004 Board of Directors of Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA). Graham, who will oversee a 22-member board, is executive director of the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.

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