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BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has reissued a cautionary warning to users of 15-seat vans, popular for groups, such as sports teams, going on outings, following the release of new in-house research about rollovers.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
CHINESE sports footwear giant Yue Yuen (Industrial) Holdings Ltd has said that it expects to score around nine per cent sales growth this year as US consumers, the biggest buyers of athletics shoes, return to the shops in the improving economic climate.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA’S National Automobile Dealers Association is applauding a ruling by the country’s Internal Revenue Service that will allow car and truck dealers to use replacement cost to evaluate their year-end parts inventory.

"This is a huge victory for dealers," said Bill Newman, NADA’s chief operating officer of Public and Legal Affairs, who said his organisation had spent eight years lobbying the IRS for the time and money-saving change.…

BY MARK ROWE
Villages from two nearby communities fear the project will cause subsidence, spread salty dust over a wide area and lead to an increase in the salinity levels of the soil, making it harder to grow crops. Local protesters in Udon Thani say salt sediments and saline wastewater from the ore processing plants could damage farmland and water sources.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE USA dominates the world’s soft-drinks markets with its Coca Cola, Pepsi and affiliated brands, so can the big players in the European bottled mineral water industry achieve a similar success with brands such as Evian, Volvic and Perrier?…

BY ALAN OSBORN
INTERNATIONAL moves to remove the maximum permitted dose of irradiation for food could lead to a major world trade dispute, which could undermine European Union regulations, says the London-based Food Irradiation Campaign, (FIC).

A joint study by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organisation has concluded that “no upper dose limit need be imposed” as irradiated foods are deemed “wholesome throughout the technologically useful dose range.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (transport) has approved the latest European Commission airport noise directive, accepting European Parliament technical amendments that would make the legislation tougher than originally proposed.

MEP’s had voted for changes time-limiting for 10 years an exemption allowing the noisiest aircraft registered in developing countries to continue operating in Europe, adding that these aeroplanes must be prevented from moving to new routes in the EU.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ASK most people what they do with maple syrup and the majority will reply they use it to drizzle over pancakes in the morning. Maple syrup producers in Quebec, the world’s leading producer of the sweet treat, are trying to change that.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADA’S federal government will tighten regulations on Sport Utility Vehicles by changing their classification from trucks to cars to force manufacturers to abide by their tighter emissions laws, reducing pollution from SUV’s.

The move is part of an overhaul of Canadian maximum emission levels for oxides of nitrogen, which will see the ceilings for cars reduced from 0.3 grams per mile to between 0.07 grams per mile.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed an expensive twin-track programme to secure the European Union’s energy supplies, diversifying production by promoting renewables and limiting demand by boosting energy saving initiatives.

It has asked EU ministers to spend Euro 215 million on its planned Intelligent Energy for Europe programme, which would span 2003 to 2006.…