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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has – almost certainly – a new tobacco advertising directive, which its framers will hope will be more legally robust than its predecessor; struck down by the European Court of Justice. The EU Council of Ministers saved the European Parliament from having to debate the proposal a second time by accepting the few amendments that were agreed at a parliamentary plenary session in November.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO many cooks spoil the broth. Or do they? As far as the world’s fight against money laundering is concerned, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund think that they can bring extra flavour to the struggle waged by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXPERT United Nations committee has adopted a new global labelling and classification system for chemicals, designed to prevent the mismanagement of hazardous and dangerous substances. The system agreed by the UN Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals uses universally understandable pictogram-based labels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties, the global animal health organisation, has published a comprehensive set of easily understood information cards on all the main aquatic animal illnesses.

These are now available on line and include data on susceptible species, transmission, symptoms and treatment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL agreement has been signed to develop a new combination anti-malaria drug. Called pyronaridine-artesunate, it will be jointly developed by the Tropical Diseases Research Programme, the Medicines for Malaria Venture and South Korea’s Shin Poong Pharmaceuticals. It could be registered by early 2006.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PROPOSALS by the European Commission to ban state aid for the disposal of slaughterhouse waste and fallen stock could put many British slaughterhouses out of business, said Robert Kennard, a spokesman for small abattoir operators.

Under the Brussels plan, state aid for the disposal of slaughterhouse waste of any kind would be made illegal from the start of 2003, though European Union (EU) Member States would be given leeway in exceptional circumstances to grant 50 per cent aid for the disposal of specified risk material and meat and bone meal with no further commercial use.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A TASK-FORCE established in the US state of Florida is discussing the possibility of placing a limit on the money paid out in malpractice lawsuits because of concerns that the resulting awards are bleeding the local health insurance industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has developed plans to lend South West Water (SWW) owner the Pennon Group plc up to Euro 60 million to help finance the utility’s 2000-2005 capital expenditure programme for non-environmental schemes. The money would be injected into a string of improvement projects for both water supply and disposal, which are designed to re-balance “supply and demand” and boost “enhanced customer service standards.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HANDLING of dangerous substances at work and fishing are to be priority problems tackled by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in 2003. Unveiling its programme for next year, the Bilbao-based unit’s director Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, said that a European week on dangerous substances would be staged.…