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BY MONICA DOBIE

SCHOLASTICS Inc., the global leader in children’s book distribution, has announced it has removed the Bratz brand books from their web, catalogue and book fair offerings in all USA and Canada schools following pressure from parents and psychologists who blasted the series’ dolls for being over-sexualised.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN researchers have found that chocolate lays unbought for months in retailers across Canada. Brock University and Carleton University (both in Ontario) researchers checked 3,206 chocolate bars from eight major retailers in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. They found on average they sat on shelves for four-and-a-half months, with on average 3% being past their sell-by-date.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL standards ensuring cigarettes are designed with a reduced risk of them causing fires are being taken forward in Europe, with the European Commission requesting a technical guideline by 2010. This would be approved by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) whose European standard would try to ensure a "reduced ignition propensity of cigarettes."…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN winery owners in British Columbia have been warned by provincial alcohol monopolies in Ontario and Manitoba to stop direct sales to their residents, citing a law from the prohibition era.

To date, the Mission Hill Family Estate Winery and the Red Rooster winery have been officially informed that they are breaking the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act of 1928 that faces up to a year in prison after a second offence.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE LONG-STANDING row over tobacco industry-funded research programmes in universities and elsewhere took a new and more provocative turn earlier this summer when the New York Times published an account of a highly restrictive contract between Philip Morris USA, America’s largest tobacco company, and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond.…

By Monica Dobie

Companies fighting commercial crime are always on the lookout for new resources and tools to deal with the problem. Where better to look than the world’s best universities in the USA? A good example is the University of Maryland’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, which is a national and international leader in research into crime and justice.…

By Alan Osborn

Three young researchers, from Poland, Slovakia and Britain, were awarded the top prizes in the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Copenhagen on September 25th against competition from national scientific prize-winners from 39 European countries plus Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, New Zealand and the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IMPERIAL Tobacco Canada and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges (RBH) have agreed to pay together more than CDN$1 billion in a settlement with the Canadian federal government and provinces over smuggling in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The payout will end a long-running Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into allegations that tobacco products made by both companies had been exported to the USA and then illicitly re-exported to Canada, avoiding the payment of duty.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A LEAKED World Bank report has claimed that the biofuels boom is responsible for 75% of the increase in global food prices since 2006, much larger than previously assumed. The European Commission has, for instance, always maintained biofuels are having a slight impact on food prices, pushing them up by as little as 3%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE G8 group of major economic powers has collectively promised to increase their contributions to help clean up the Chernobyl nuclear complex by Euro 62 million. The money from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the USA and the European Union will help complete a storage facility for more than 20,000 spent fuel assemblies generated during the operation of Chernobyl units 1-3

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