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BY ALAN OSBORN
ON July 31 this year the European Union’s (EU) Tobacco Advertising Directive came into effect, making it illegal to advertise tobacco products in the print media, radio and over the Internet within the EU. Also banned was tobacco sponsorship of cross-border cultural and sporting events.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE
IN the Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian paint markets there is always an extra ingredient that must be thrown into the mix: politics. The political situation, internal or external, can have positive knock-on effects, such as Jordan’s booming construction market due to an influx of Iraqi refugees, or negatively, such as in Lebanon, where the sector is experiencing something of a slump due to political instability.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS
THE RELATIONSHIP between Caribbean people and tobacco could have at one time been described as virtually umbilical, with important outward feeders to Europe and other parts of the world. Tobago, the smaller unit of the twin-island state of Trinidad & Tobago, bears the name of the instrument used by native Amerindians 500 years ago to smoke Burly blends.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of sole control of Netherlands-based EU food ingredient business IMCD Group by global financial services group ABN AMRO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DUTCH cigarette wholesale trader hit by an illegal diversion of cargo involving corrupt customs officers should pay Euro 1 million customs debts, the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance has ruled. It said Ricosmos, of the Netherlands, then part of the Kamstra Shipstores group, was liable, despite not being involved in the fraud.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DUTCH cigarette wholesale trader hit by an illegal diversion of cargo involving corrupt customs officers should pay 2.2 million Dutch guilders customs debts (Euro 1 million), the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN tobacco industry is resisting handing over detailed cigarette ingredients data to national European Union (EU) governments, a European Commission report has claimed, despite it being their legal duty under the EU tobacco products directive. Highlighting “some difficulties associated to the submission of ingredient information…by the industry”, the Commission said data has so far only been sent to Brussels by 13 out of the 25 EU member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists will cooperate for the next five years in a Euro 7 million research project developing odour traps and effective repellents to keep malarial mosquitoes away from potential human hosts. This Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative will unite US, Dutch, Tanzania and Gambia researchers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN both the Austrian and Swiss paint industries the European Union’s (EU) chemicals policy, and in particular next year’s introduction of the regulatory framework known as REACH, hang like a grim cloud over the near to mid term future.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A LINK between under-nourishment and mental illness has been confirmed after scientists found that children born during China’s 1959-61 famine were twice as likely to develop schizophrenia. It afflicts roughly 1% of the global population and tends to run in families but researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University noted that the percentage of children who were babies during the famine and developed schizophrenia rose to 2.2%.…