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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR international study has detected a direct link between cleaning products delivered through aerosols and asthma or other respiratory problems in adults. Spain’s Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology and Municipal Institute of Medical Research coordinated research institutes in Britain, Germany, Holland, Italy, Sweden and Canada to assess 3,503 men and women aged of 20-44 with no previous asthma problems who were told to use cleaning product aerosols regularly.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN bookseller, Indigo Books and Music Inc., has for the first time, outdone Canadian online sales over Amazon.ca, the global book giant’s Canada arm, according to an industry analyst.
Despite Amazon’s securing 25% more Canadian online traffic in the past months, Indigo’s conversion rate or the rate of how many browsers turn to sellers is substantially higher than Amazon’s.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

‘HARRY Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ smashed sales records in Canada. Vancouver-based Raincoast Books, the Harry Potter’s Canadian distributor and publisher reported 812,000 copies of the book were sold across Canada in the first 48-hour sale period, 25% up from the previous Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.…

BY SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore

WITH a long established food manufacturing sector and strong commodity production, the Pakistan food industry, one of the largest industries in the country, has grown with an average pace of 10% over the last three years.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

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? Monica Dobie reports.

THE UNIVERSITY of Maryland’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice is a national and international leader in research into crime and justice.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A CANADIAN Supreme Court ruling has given Canadian tobacco companies the right to advertise their brands in publications and establishments that are mainly for adults. The decision still prohibits using billboards, event sponsorship and adverts that target young people or link it with a daring lifestyle such as the use of Marlboro man images.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission officials have confirmed that they are developing proposed standards insisting all cigarettes sold in the European Union (EU) should be self-extinguishing from 2010. The proposals should be released this autumn by new Bulgarian consumer affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, and would – claim Brussels bureaucrats – prevent most smoking-related domestic fires, which kill around 2,000 EU citizens annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission officials are developing proposed standards insisting all cigarettes sold in the European Union (EU) should be self-extinguishing from 2010. The proposals should be released this autumn by new Bulgarian consumer affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, and would – claim Brussels bureaucrats – prevent most smoking-related domestic fires, which kill around 2,000 EU citizens annually.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo

ON May 28 this year Japanese beauty queen Riyo Mori was crowned Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City. The 20-year-old former ballet dancer who had studied in Canada and New York was the first Japanese woman to win the contest in nearly half a century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CANADIAN government has added to the growing pressure on the USA to slash the subsidies it pumps into its food sector, formally requesting that a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel declares that Washington’s largesse has been illegally high.…