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BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Health Organisation member governments have been meeting from October 14-25 to press ahead with the development of a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The fifth session of the Inter-governmental Negotiating Body examined a draft created from discussions held over the past four years on the advertising, promotion, sales and smuggling of tobacco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FUTURE of US tariff preferences for Cambodian clothing exports looks guaranteed for another year, after an International Labour Organisation gave the country another relatively clean bill of health regarding working standards in its garment industry. While stressing problems regarding wages, overtime and unions, the UN agency concluded improvements were made to working conditions in various factories following earlier reports.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador is launching legal action against tobacco manufacturers seeking the recovery of health care costs incurred because of smoking, a lawsuit it agreed in principle to pursue in 1999.

Humphrey, Farrington & McClain, of Independence, Missouri, in the USA, has taken the case, for a cut of any damages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEAT from livestock vaccinated against foot and mouth disease will not carry labels within the European Union declaring that they are from injected animals, even after the passage of the anticipated EU FMD directive, EU health and consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne has said.…

BY MARK ROWE
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations and an American local authority have issued a lawsuit against the US government for its contribution to global warming, a move that may have important repercussions for the insurance industry.

A lawsuit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco claims that two American export credit agencies illegally provided US$32billion in financing for oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants over the past 10 years without assessing their contribution to global warming.…

BY MARK ROWE
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations together with a local authority have issued a lawsuit against the American government for its alleged contribution to global warming. The suit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco claims that two American export credit agencies illegally provided US$32 billion in financing for oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants over the past 10 years without assessing their contribution to global warming.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS, Benson and Hedges Inc. Canada, has lost a court battle in Saskatchewan, where the firm had argued the Canadian province’s Tobacco Control Act contravened the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Canada’s Constitution and that it violated federal anti-smoking legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PRACTICAL tool to help businesses evaluate the entire impact of workplace accidents, and conduct cost-benefit analyses of measures they can take to prevent them, has been launched by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ENVIRONMENT committee of the European Parliament wants a review of the safety levels of food additives used in confectionery to check whether they are safe for children. It backed a report by Swedish liberal MEP Marit Paulsen, which calling for a European Commission act within three years, because such additive levels are set with the health of adults in mind.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance has ruled that EU member governments have the right to ban four antibiotics as additives in animal feed, saying this was “not a disproportionate measure given the need to protect public health.”…