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HAITI BENEFITS FROM DEMOLITION OF CANADA’S WHITE ELEPHANT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
The request was highly unusual. But, when the ambassador of Haiti to Canada heard that Montreal’s Mirabel airport was to be demolished, his thoughts turned to his country’s Cap Haïtien airport, which was undergoing large-scale renovation. The doomed airport’s equipment, he figured, would be of more use in Haiti than on the scrap-heap.…
HIGHER EDUCATION FRAUD TRAINING QUICKLY BECOMING INDUSTRY NORM
AS companies and government organisations implement more stringent fraud detection programmes, they are recruiting the best and brightest anti-fraud experts. Universities in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia are responding to demand for anti-fraud expertise by offering fraud prevention classes in accounting, criminology, and business degrees.…
US PORK PRODUCTION RISE WILL CONTINUE IN 2015, ALTHOUGH GROWTH RATES MAY SLACKEN – EXPERTS
AMERICAN pigmeat analysts have conformed to globalmeatnews.com that the recovery in US pork production will be sustained, with the pigmeat industry recovering strongly from the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) outbreak.
The comments come after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasted earlier this month that American commercial pork production was set to reach 23.9 billion pounds for the year ending September 2015, exceeding the country’s beef output for the first time after 62 years.…
BRUSSELS TABLES NEW FUEL QUALITY DIRECTIVE FORMULA – OIL SANDS STILL RECOGNISED AS DIRTIER
THE EUROPEAN Commission will once more try to persuade European Union (EU) member states to approve a technical formula for assessing how member states reduce by 6% carbon emissions associated with transport fuel production and use. Under the EU’s 2009 fuel quality directive, this is supposed to be achieved by 2020, but agreement has not been secured on measuring this reduction.…
CANADA-EU TRADE AGREEMENT LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF QUALIFICATIONS IN NURSING
THE COMPREHENSIVE Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union (EU) will make it easier for both jurisdictions to recognise each other’s nursing certifications. Political leaders celebrated the end of negotiations in September in Ottawa, Canada (Sept 26).…
CENTRAL AMERICA STRUGGLES TO CONTAIN THREAT POSED BY AML TO ITS UNSTABLE SOCIETIES
Mexico, South America, and the United States are usually the focus of discussions about money laundering, drug-trafficking and transnational crime in the Western Hemisphere. However, as countries like Mexico and Colombia have upped their security game, criminals have taken advantage of their small Central American neighbours as weaker links for both the transport of drugs and the laundering of illicit funds associated with the trade.…
EU/WTO ROUND UP – AMERICAN CONCERN OVER CLAIMED EU BIOTECH FOOT-DRAGGING
THE AMERICAN government has complained of delays by the outgoing European Commission that leaves office on November 1 regarding the authorisation of new bio-tech food products and ingredients for use in the European Union (EU). In a strongly worded message to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) disputes settlement body, the US said that the EU had failed to leave decisions to regulatory committees acting on European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) advice.…
ANTIMICROBIAL PRODUCT DEVELOPERS WORK TO INCREASING NUMBER OF TECHNICAL STANDARDS
ANTIMICROBIAL textile manufacturers face an ever increasing number of mandatory and voluntary standards around the world that clarify and specify how they can ensure safety, quality, and proper testing of their products. With bacteria becoming more resistant to anti-microbial treatments, this is of special importance to cleanroom managers in hospitals, laboratories, food research, military and other sectors.…
MOST NATIONS FALL SHORT IN WAR ON BRIBERY – TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL
The US, Germany, Britain and Switzerland are the only countries among 41 signatories to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development’s (OECD) 1997 Anti-Bribery Convention to vigorously investigate and prosecute firms that bribe foreign officials.
So says anti-corruption organisation Transparency International in the latest update of Exporting Corruption, its tenth such annual report, covering the years 2010 through 2013.…
WORKWEAR MANUFACTURERS LINK QUALITY TO INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
WORKWEAR producers know that their products must be reliable. And one excellent way to demonstrate that is ensuring and declaring that their production and materials are in line with those recommended by national and international standards organisations.
In the competitive American market, development organisations such as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colourists (AATCC) constantly update workwear-related safety and testing standards. …