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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY PHILIP FINE

PEPSI and Coke’s exclusive deal with two large Canadian school boards will have to be revealed after a 15-year-old convinced the provincial Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario that details should be made public. Ontario student Nicholas Dodds was in Grade 8 (aged 13) when he began the two-year battle with the cola companies and school boards.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE COST of cigarettes in Ontario and Quebec will dramatically rise because of planned tax hikes to be imposed by Canadian provincial governments. In Ontario, a of carton cigarettes recently increased by CDN$2.50 and will soon go up an additional CDN$7.50 as a new Liberal government seeks to bring the cost of a carton of cigarettes closer to the national average of CDN$70.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers is poised this Thursday (27 Nov) to choose a preferred candidate as a site for the ITER international fusion reactor prototype. Assessments of the two competing EU sites Cadarache in France and Vandellós in Spain have failed to choose clearly between the two, making it unlikely that a consensus will emerge.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

AN ATTEMPT is being made to rally all 50 US state governors to lobby the American government to lift a ban on importing lower priced Canadian drugs. Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is trying to build support for the idea and recently went to Washington to push the idea.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A US-Canada team trying to lower the incidences of E-Coli outbreaks and meat recalls through animal inoculation has reporting some positive results. University of Nebraska researchers claim there has been an average of 59 per cent reduction in E.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is strong optimism in north America that an animal vaccine could soon be developed for the deadly strain of E coli bacteria sometimes referred to as hamburger disease. A US-Canada team has found positive results in research studies where vaccinated cattle showed a 59 per cent reduction of E coli O157:H7 in their manure compared with unvaccinated cattle in a University of Nebraska research facility in tests carried out during the summers of 2002 and 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) will review its BSE trade guidelines following requests from the USA, Canada and Mexico, but claims governments fail to implement existing advice. The north American trio requested action following complete trade bans on Canadian beef because of one BSE infected cow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, will review its guidelines on trade with countries with BSE outbreaks following requests from the USA, Canada and Mexico, but claims governments are already failing to implement its existing advice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN, Canadian and Mexican textile industries may forge alliances with their colleagues in poorer central America to cope with increased worldwide competition resulting from the scrapping of WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing import quotas by 2005. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Commission has told its officials to explore the idea, following a meeting in Montreal attended by ministers from the three member countries.…