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BY PHILIP FINE

HEAVYWEIGHT cargo specialists, Emery Worldwide Airlines, has been sentenced for violating America’s Hazardous Material Transportation Act. The company admitted that on 12 occasions it failed to provide proper notice to its pilots that they were transporting dangerous goods, including nuclear material.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROYAL Wine Corp. based in New Jersey, USA, will open what will be, North America’s largest kosher winery on the west coast. The US$13 million, 73,000-square-foot winery will be built in southern California, and is scheduled to be completed next autumn.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL disasters cost the world US$60 billion in 2003, up from around US$55 billion the previous year, a Munich Re assessment for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed. The bulk of this year’s losses were caused by weather-related catastrophes, said UNEP, which is linking them with global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a white paper on improving corporate governance in Latin America. Priorities for action included taking voting rights seriously; treating shareholders fairly; and improving financial reporting. * http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/25/2/18976210.pdf…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA realises it has a collective weight problem. And given that 64 per cent of the US population is overweight or obese and the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children, the confectionary industry is most certainly in the firing line.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SEIZURES of counterfeit pharmaceuticals by customs officers of the 15 EU countries rose “significantly” in 2002 and the trend has continued so far this year, the European Commission has reported. Pharmaceuticals are not identified separately in statistics on pirated goods, but form the largest part of the “other goods” category where seizures have risen from 42 million in 2001 to 59 million in 2002.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of the obesity drug Xenical for adolescents, the first time a weight loss drug has been allowed to treat children in America, of whom 15 per cent are obese.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) and the Organisation of American States have struck a deal, leading them to cooperate in the publicising of health and safety best practice that can be applied on both sides of the Atlantic.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is evidence that wild blueberries, native to the USA’s Maine, Atlantic Canada and Quebec, can lower the risks of cardiovascular disease. A University of Maine study is the first using rats to demonstrate a relationship between consumption of whole wild blueberries and calming reactions that can lead to high blood pressure.…