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BY PHILIP FINE, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has intensified calls for beef importing countries to refrain from over-reacting to BSE outbreaks. Looking at the recent USA infection, the OIE said it opposes resulting blanket beef bans, saying only specified risk materials and animals should be blocked.…

BY PHILIP FINE

OBESITY is costing America US$75 billion (GBPounds 41.4 billion) a year in medical treatments, a recent study has found. According to researchers at RTI International and the US Centers for Disease Control, the estimated percentage of annual health expenditures in each state attributable to obesity ranges from four per cent in Arizona to 6.7 percent in Alaska.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) is concerned about over-reactions from beef importing countries to BSE outbreaks. Looking at the recent USA case, the OIE opposes resulting blanket beef bans, saying only the trade in specified risk materials and animals should be blocked.…

BY PHILIP FINE

HEAVYWEIGHT cargo specialists, Emery Worldwide Airlines, has been sentenced for violating America’s Hazardous Material Transportation Act. The company admitted that on 12 occasions it failed to provide proper notice to its pilots that they were transporting dangerous goods, including nuclear material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is a significant risk that Europe’s summer of blackouts could be repeated after 2008, unless effective investments are made in power generation and distribution plant, the Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE), has warned.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 50 million via Bulgarian banks to finance energy efficiency and small renewable energy projects in the country’s private sector. This money would be combined with an extra Euro 10 million from the Kozloduy International Decomissioning and Support Fund (KIDSF), which was set up to help Bulgaria cope with the loss of power supplies caused by the decommissioning of the Kozloduy nuclear power station.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN bottled water industry should be standardised, to consolidate its current runaway growth, the secretary general of the Asian Bottle Water Association has said. Ms Ita Thaher said that the bottled water sector in India is too unorganised and that more focus is required on product development, quality control and marketing for an industry she values at IND Rupees 10 billion, growing at 60 per cent annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of countries have formed a network of excellence developing expertise in the deep underground storage of radioactive waste. Coordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, participants include Belgium’s Hades Underground Research Facility in Mol; Canada’s Underground Research Laboratory of Lac-du-Bonnet, Manitoba; Switzerland’s Grimsel Test Site and Mont-Terri Underground Research Laboratory; Britain’s Geo-Environmental Research Centre, Cardiff; and the USA’s WIPP facility, New Mexico, the Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Francisco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CUBA has asked the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to relax a ban on trading its American Crocodile population, which offers commercial quality leather hides. American Crocodile skin leather is high quality, pliable, and decorative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is trying to temper the zeal of the US government’s bid to have oversight of non-American public accounting firms, calling for a lighter touch, with more respect for European Union (EU) laws and mutual assistance for the monitoring of US audit firms.…