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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE cuts and bruises from angry patients are nothing new to nurses, there are growing concerns that there is a link between physical assaults and long-term musculoskeletal symptoms.

The mental and emotional consequences of nursing violence have been on the radar of health institutions for a long time, but a recent study published in the UK-based international academic journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine is the first to make the connection between physical violence and chronic health problems.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

EUROPE’S food manufacturing industry has been generally positive about the European Commission’s new priorities to reform the European Union’s (EU) common agricultural policy (CAP) after 2013, released in a policy paper yesterday – but its representatives want more concrete action.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

Food manufacturers and retailers have been asked at the CIAA (Confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU) congress in Brussels today (Friday November 18) to think more laterally to reduce their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, in their technology use and production management.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A DECISION this June by the leading US anti-money laundering (AML) agency, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), to call for changes to the US Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in respect of stored value or prepaid access cards has stirred interest and some controversy.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN

Quotes:

Q: How would you rate the results of the COP-4 meeting? Did the WHO achieve the goals it set out for the meeting? And who came out "better" from the results – the WHO or the tobacco industry?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its gas infrastructure investment priorities for the next 20 years. They are pipeline and other transit projects delivering gas directly from the Caspian Sea to Europe; integrating the Baltic gas market, connecting it to central and southeast Europe; and boosting north-south infrastructure in western Europe to remove internal bottlenecks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation wants governments to fight climate change by scrapping subsidies promoting energy use. Its deputy director-general Harsha V Singh, told a Geneva conference held by the Global Subsidies Initiative, the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the UN Environment Programme: "Fossil fuel subsidy reform would accelerate our movement towards renewable, and less polluting, sources of energy."…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, KEITH NUTHALL

THE KNITWEAR sector, especially at the higher end of the market spectrum, is a prey for organised counterfeiters. Sophisticated illicit manufacturers, especially in emerging markets, create copies of established brands, that can be high enough quality to fool, but poor enough to disappoint the consumer after a few wears.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, DEIRDRE MASON

IF there is a philosophy driving the European Union (EU), it surely is that everyone must rub along together and cooperate for the general good. For a continent as diverse and as previously fractious as Europe, that is neither unsurprising nor unworthy.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

MORE than 13 million passengers per year use Auckland International Airport – indeed according to Richard Llewellyn, senior communications manager for the airport : "More than 70 per cent of all visitors to New Zealand arrive or depart through it."…