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BY PHILIP FINE

WASTE from cotton production is proving to be anything but that in America after initial testing showed it could be successfully recycled. The USA’s Agriculture Research Service and Illinois-based Summit Seed have been testing a dry formulation of cotton gin waste for use as bedding mulch

for landscaping.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA realizes by now that it has a collective weight problem. Newspaper articles have been coming out at an ever increasing rate to remind them that 64 per cent of the population is overweight or obese, that the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children and that the medical toll obesity exacts is estimated at US$100 billion (GBPounds 59 billion) a year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN the changing America of leaner Chicken McNuggets and a fervency to lower

the country’s collective weight, getting told to shape up seems to have

extended to a US government anti-obesity campaign. Last year, the Centers

for Disease Control launched a multi-media advertising blitz aimed at

getting children to become more active, carrying the theme "Verb, it’s what

you do."…

BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is strong optimism in north America that an animal vaccine could soon be developed for the deadly strain of E coli bacteria sometimes referred to as hamburger disease. A US-Canada team has found positive results in research studies where vaccinated cattle showed a 59 per cent reduction of E coli O157:H7 in their manure compared with unvaccinated cattle in a University of Nebraska research facility in tests carried out during the summers of 2002 and 2003.…

BY MARK ROWE
PEPSICO, which is marking 50 years of operations in the Middle East, finds itself at something of a crossroads. An all-American company, in a region where anti-Americanism has rarely been so widespread, it faces several challenges to ensure that it will continue to operate successfully in the Middle East for a further half a century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union competition Commissioner Mario Monti has called for close cooperation between international business regulators such as the European Commission and their opposite numbers in national governments and in north America. Speaking to the World Forum on Energy Regulation, in Rome, Monti said that by combining their efforts, competition authorities would “achieve more than each would be able to achieve on its own.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN, Canadian and Mexican textile industries may forge alliances with their colleagues in poorer central America to cope with increased worldwide competition resulting from the scrapping of WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing import quotas by 2005. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Commission has told its officials to explore the idea, following a meeting in Montreal attended by ministers from the three member countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy ministers have agreed new rules for applying value added tax to cross-border gas supplies that will reduce confusion created by increasing cross-border trading in energy supplies. Now, traders re-selling supplies who are not established in the same country as the supplier will pay VAT through an obligatory reverse charge system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Parliament (EP) committee has called for a significant boost in European Investment Fund spending on actions that suppress the growing illegal trade in bushmeat, which is threatening wild species in Africa, Asia and Latin America.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WHAT price safety? Ports and shippers racing to comply with an extremely tight deadline to meet the new International Marine Organisation security requirements are still not sure what the final bill will be. However, with the newly added SOLAS (safety of life at sea convention) special measures and the also new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code due to come into effect on 1 July 2004, those who are not already well down the line to meeting the requirements will find the costs rising sharply as demand for security services steps up.…