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BY KEITH NUTHALL

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INTELLIGENCE advice teams are to be posted at international airports in seven west African countries, to boost the number and effectiveness of illicit drugs seizures at their terminals. This ‘Aircop’ initiative has been organised by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Customs Organisation (WCO) and Interpol.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover by Unilever of Sara Lee’s body and laundry care businesses, on condition it sells off the US company’s Sanex brand and related business in Europe. Following an inquiry as the European Union’s (EU) lead competition authority, Brussels concluded there were particular concerns regarding Unilever’s future dominance of some EU deodorant markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COUNTRIES negotiating a plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) fighting fake products have announced that all remaining problems have been resolved and a final text is being drafted. This will allow the European Union (EU) and its member states, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the USA to ratify the treaty.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for more research on the toxicity of drinks packaging additive Bisphenol A (BPA), after a global panel of experts determined that plastic water bottles and aluminium can linings are among the main culprits for human exposure to the chemical.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, KEITH NUTHALL

THE KNITWEAR sector, especially at the higher end of the market spectrum, is a prey for organised counterfeiters. Sophisticated illicit manufacturers, especially in emerging markets, create copies of established brands, that can be high enough quality to fool, but poor enough to disappoint the consumer after a few wears.…

BY EMMA JACKSON, MJ DESCHAMPS

Political sensitivities over native reserves help fuel US-Canada tobacco smuggling

Illicit tobacco manufacturing on Mohawk territory that spans the US-Canada border between Montreal and Toronto is helping fuel smuggling, claims the Canadian police. Native authorities call on tobacco consumers to avoid contraband tobacco, because it strengthens organised crime.…

BY HELENA FLUSFELDER, GERARD O’DWYER

A PLAN to install an electric car network has been approved by Israel’s government, making this small Middle East country a global leader in electric vehicle (EV) technology.

The project is a joint venture between Renault-Nissan, which will provide the electric vehicles, and a Silicon Valley, USA-based start-up project Better Place, which will operate the re-charging grid.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

A GLOBAL panel of experts has struck an international consensus that food and drinks is by far the main culprit for human exposure to plastics additive Bisphenol A (BPA), with other sources such as house dust, soil and plastic toys, being of "of minor relevance".…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN

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Q: How would you rate the results of the COP-4 meeting? Did the WHO achieve the goals it set out for the meeting? And who came out "better" from the results – the WHO or the tobacco industry?…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

CANADA and India-based businessman Baljit Chadha, president of international trade and marketing firm Balcorp Ltd., is standing behind his decision to invest in the controversial underground Jeffrey Mine asbestos expansion project according to his senior spokesman Guy Versailles.…