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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA and Russia have blocked the addition of chrysotile asbestos to the Rotterdam Convention’s “prior informed consent”, which would force exporters to secure the consent of an importing government before shipping the carcinogenic material abroad. The two countries claimed at a meeting of parties to the UN convention that the material is safe when processed properly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will spend Euro 855,000 on promoting the sale of Portuguese wine in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, China and Japan. The money will be combined with money from the Portuguese government and private sources, to create a total promotional budget of Euro 1.7 million, to be spent over the next three years.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has announced a ban on labels that promote the sale of foods that are low in carbohydrates. When the rules take effect in December 2005, carbohydrate content must be listed on the nutrition table of all food and beverages packaging, but other low carb related claims will be forbidden.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Indigo Books and Music Inc. will reduce its book offerings by a whopping 25% to make room for sales of more gifts and accessories such as jewellery and greeting cards. At the company’s annual meeting, CEO Heather Reisman said over the next three or four years the proportion of the retailer’s sales commanded by books will be reduced to 60% from its current 85% but that the selection of books “will still be as meaningful.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN food industry has been asked to supply information to an official inquiry aimed at discovering products most prone to contain the carcinogen furan. This was said by the US Food and Drug Administration in May to be present in some foodstuffs exposed to high temperatures, claims that are being investigated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK that American cattle are infected with BSE is high, the European Food Safety Authority has concluded, and without changes to US rendering or feeding practice, “the probability of cattle to be infected with BSE persistently increases”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has proposed further changes to its tough tobacco labelling rules in an effort to reach more smokers. Health Canada will create more messages, rotated bi-yearly, that will explain the effects of toxic emissions, whilst providing the benefits of quitting to smokers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has proposed substantial changes to its current tough labelling requirements for tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers. The new health warnings will include messages with both a health warning and a related benefit associated with quitting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTERVAILING and antidumping duties imposed by the United States on Canadian exports of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod have been undermined by a strongly critical ruling a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel.

US International Trade Commission (ITC) inquiries leading to the tariffs’ imposition in 2002 were challenged by Canada’s Ivaco Inc and Ivaco Rolling Mills Inc.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Paris
A FRENCH court has blocked a bid by Air Canada to use its regular spot in the undamaged part of Terminal 2 at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris. Air Canada was forced into the older Terminal 1 to make room for more Air France aircraft in the new building, some of its roof collapsed in May.…