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BY WANG FANGQING

Given the fast-growing domestic consumption of branded drinks, Chinese beverage manufacturers are racing to expand their production.

The Beijing-based Huiyuan Group (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT), China’s leading fruit juice manufacturer (and which Coca-Cola failed to purchase last year), announced a massive investment of Chinese Yuan CNY5 billion (US dollar USD731 million) in April 2010 to develop a sparkling fruit juice line.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) alert system for potentially dangerous consumer products, RAPEX has – unusually – warned of recalls for cosmetic products produced in the EU, rather than outside member states. German authorities have issued a sales ban on fingernail-modelling gel from Nail Scout, a German-based company.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPECIAL environment-friendly techniques within airport and groundhandling services have reduced fuel usage and pollution during the first certified ‘green’ trans-Atlantic flights. These were undertaken from Paris-Charles de Gaulle to Miami airports through the AIRE (Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions) programme, operated by the European Commission and the USA Federal Aviation Administration.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

Wine is not a particularly popular alcoholic beverage in most of Latin America, and only 1.94 billion litres were consumed in the region in 2009, according to Euromonitor International. Wine is also the only major beverage segment that has dropped in consumption per capita in Latin America in the last five years, from 3.8 litres in 2005 to 3.6 litres in 2009 (compared to almost 50 litres consumed per capita per year in France for example) said beverage information specialist Canadean.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) opinion poll has revealed that 47% of Britons consider it likely patients could be harmed by hospital care (in or out-patient). And if that sounds bad, 83% of Greeks share this pessimistic outlook. Even in France, with its usually lauded healthcare system, 65% of people think it likely patients could be harmed by nurses and doctors.…

BY MARK ROWE

CROATIA is certainly talking a good game when it comes to cracking down on fraud as its European Union (EU) membership negotiations continue apace. The promised land of a seat at Brussels was sufficient to help Social Democrat law professor and classical music composer Ivo Josipovi?…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

The most important markets for bottled water have traditionally been developed economies like Western Europe and the United States. However, growth in these markets has recently flattened out, exacerbated by the global economic crisis and growing environmental concerns over the product.…

BY GEORGE STONE

THE DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) is moving towards giving permission to a consortium led by Irish independent Tullow Oil to develop oil and gas production on its side of Lake Albert, government officials have signalled. Kinshasa, DRC’s capital city, is currently a minnow in Africa’s oil producer’s league, pumping just 25,000 barrels per day (bpd) while the continent’s leading exporters Nigeria and Angola are hitting the 2 million bpd mark.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A JOINT Interpol-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) initiative on fighting nuclear terrorism unites police forces worldwide with IAEA experts in gathering comprehensive data on the illicit traffic in nuclear and radiological materials. Together, the two international organisations analyse relevant threats and help investigations into these problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON

THE EUROPEAN Commission has reported the number of notifications of potentially unsafe automobiles though the European Union (EU) consumer warning system remains high – being the third most common product category receiving withdrawals and sales bans in 2009.…