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CANADA - LEAD/MERCURY
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S federal health ministry has lowered maximum levels for lead and mercury in paints, enamels, varnishes, lacquers, shellacs or similar materials that dry to a solid film on the application surface. The lead content limit has been reduced from 5000 mg/kg to 600 mg/kg for surface coating materials used in or around the home on furniture, toys and other articles used by children.…
DISEASE/PESTICIDE TESTS
BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL
SENSOR PROJECTS
RESEARCHERS from Canada’s University of Toronto have designed a screening tool that lights up when dangerous pathogens and diseases are detected in liquid samples, including water and bodily fluids. A study in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters explains the probe crushes cells to release DNA, then untangles a strand of DNA, (there are usually two combined), of a particular pathogen.…
CANADA SALES TRACKING
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN booksellers will soon know promptly which books are the most popular across their national market, with the introduction of a new book sales-tracking system in June. BookNet Canada, a non-profit organisation, will introduce a BNC Sales Data Service collecting sales information from retailers nationwide to produce weekly reports.…
ROMANIA FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
THE YEAR 2007 will be a significant one for Romania. It is the year that the country is scheduled to join the European Union (EU); it is also the year that Romania’s second nuclear power unit is expected to come on line.…
MOLSON PURCHASE
BY MONICA DOBIE
MOLSON Canada has announced it has acquired Ontario microbrewery Creemore Springs Brewery Ltd. Established in 1987, the brewery in Creemore, Ontario, 120 kilometres northwest of Toronto, employs 50 people and produces Creemore Springs premium lager. “Creemore is rounding up Molson’s brand portfolio and will strongly position us in the domestic super-premium segment, becoming an engine for growth…,”
said an ebullient Kevin Boyce, President and CEO, Molson Canada.…
CANADA-EU VET DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Canada have approved new simplified import and export rules for pork products and bovine semen, the first time they have agreed to mutually recognise each other’s food production standards. Simplified import certificates will be used for these products.…
CANADA-EU VET DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Canada have approved new simplified import and export rules for pork products and bovine semen. It is the first time Ottawa and Brussels have agreed to mutually recognise each other’s production standards. As a result, simplified import certificates will be used for these products, cutting production, inspection and certification costs.…
IFC - TURKEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, has pumped more money into Turkey vehicle fleet management company Intercity. It will lend Intercity US$42.75 million, which follows the IFC’s purchase of 20% equity earlier this year. The latest loan, said the IFC, would “strengthen Intercity’s long-term leasing of its vehicle fleet to a variety of private sector enterprises”.…
ECO-INTERNET
BY MONICA DOBIE
ENVIRONMENTALISTS in Canada have set up an Internet service, which allows people to have access to a list of toxic compounds released near their homes and the companies responsible for the pollutants simply by keying in their postal code.…
BSE COVER UP
BY MONICA DOBIE
A FORMER American government veterinarian – scheduled to speak at Canada’s parliament this week – has claimed the US government is hiding cases of BSE in the United States. Speaking in Edmonton, Canada, Dr Lester Friedlander said United States Department of Agriculture ex-colleagues have told him of cases that the USDA has chosen not to announce.…