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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE the failed takeover bid for Saskatchewan’s Potash Corporation by BHP Billiton would have provided many long-term benefits to the Canadian province, a senior think tank in the country has this week suggested the federal government blocked the deal over concerns over short-term tax revenue losses.…

BY EMMA JACKSON, KEITH NUTHALL

A CLOSED doors meeting of international scientists is trying this week to thrash out a global consensus on the risks posed to consumers by the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA). Participant experts at the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have been told to sign confidentiality agreements, preventing them from disclosing information from the discussions until the organisers have published all material from the meeting.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A DECISION this June by the leading US anti-money laundering (AML) agency, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), to call for changes to the US Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in respect of stored value or prepaid access cards has stirred interest and some controversy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLIMATE control concerns will be integrated into all investment and advisory services offered by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank. It has created a new ‘Climate Business Group’ to undertake this work and grow IFC climate-related investments to more than US dollars USD3 billion within three years.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE CANADIAN government has added plastics drinks packaging additive Bisphenol A (BPA) to its national list of toxic substances, claiming this is the toughest action taken against the chemical internationally.

Despite protests from China and a positive recent health assessment from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Canada’s health and environment ministers have added BPA to its list of toxic substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE AMERICAN Honey Producers Association has told just-food of its fears that a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling about honey pollen could flood the US market with honey imports. Richard Adee, the association’s Washington legislative committee chairman, said the ruling, (which said honey made from GM-pollen would require special authorisation for sale in the European Union (EU)), could disrupt global honey markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POLICY paper released by the European Commission has stated principles it wants written into any future European Union (EU) passenger name record transfer agreements with governments across the world. The EU has already secured three such deals – with the USA, Canada and Australia, and there will be more agreements: "The use of PNR data is growing and is increasingly seen as a mainstream and necessary aspect of law enforcement work," said the paper.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COLLABORATION deal has been agreed by the National Research Council of Canada’s Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation (NRC-IFCI), based in Vancouver, and the USA’s University of Connecticut Center for Clean Energy Engineering. They will together develop new fuel cell technologies, alternative fuels and carbon sequestration techniques.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

Just days after the Canadian government added Bisphenol A (BPA) to its national list of toxic substances, it has now proposed new risk management regulations that would control the chemical’s use in industrial processes and products, such as plastic drink packaging.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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A UNITED Nations campaign could – if successful – significantly increase worldwide demand for soap. Its Global Handwashing Day has highlighted how diarrhoeal and acute respiratory diseases kill 3.5 million children aged under five annually, and that washing their hands after using toilets and before handling food can reduce such deaths by 40% and 23% respectively.…