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BY ALAN OSBORN

STANDFIRST

Every country has its own food and drink regulatory body or bodies: in the first place to ensure that its citizens eat safely and in the second to help safeguard its position in the rapidly-growing world food trade.…

BY DAVID ANDERSON

ORGANISED crime is much more low-key in Russia today than in the wild-east days of the1990s. But that does not mean it has gone away. And, as David Anderson reports, the fluctuations in the price of oil are likely to provide plenty of opportunities for further illicit gains.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A STUDY on a groundbreaking universal influenza immunisation programme in Ontario has concluded that mass flu shots dramatically reduce mortality rates and health care costs.

The research published in US-based Public Library of Science compiled hospital data from 1997-2004 from all provinces in Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A SEPARATIST cooperative in Quebec has launched a beer it hopes will further the cause for the French-speaking Canadian province to become an independent nation.

Montreal-based L’Independante is now distributing the locally brewed ale with profits being donated to campaigns calling for Quebec to leave Canada.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADA’S third largest brewer, Sleeman Breweries Ltd, is suing British Columbian microbrewer Dead Frog Brewery for illegally using a clear bottle design that infringes on the Sleeman trademark.

The Dead Frog Brewery is fighting the suit claiming that Sleeman does not own the right to package beer in clear bottles and that the logos imprinted on the bottles are different.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A MAJOR strengthening of Canada’s regulations and programmes fighting money laundering and terrorist financing has taken place in 2008 and will continue into 2009, going a long way towards erasing the worryingly negative impression left by last year’s report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE CANADIAN division of PepsiCo has announced that it will voluntarily disclose the amount of caffeine on all its product packaging including Pepsi, Pepsi Max and Lipton Iced Tea brands.

This new labelling, which has already been introduced for products sold in the USA, will appear on Canada-sold packaging by the end of this year on all Lipton brands sold in the country; Pepsi label redesigns will be completed by mid-2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DANISH plastic toymaker Lego has lost a legal bid to secure EU trademark rights to a three-dimensional image of one of its plastic red bricks. European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges have ruled the image was too generic and commonplace, so other companies would be unfairly restricted from using pictures of plastic bricks in their marketing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GLOBAL market for uranium is booming as climate change gives the nuclear power sector a new lease of life, but given this element’s intrinsic environmental health difficulties, regulatory obstacles for mining companies can be tough.

Maybe nowhere is this more apparent than in the world’s largest uranium producer, Canada: uranium miners’ safety measures have to be doubly secure, lest public opinion prevents work starting in the first place.…