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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is helping the USA deal with the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Coordinated by the EU emergency response group, the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), the EU will send oil skimmers and oil spill experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Mexico have agreed to combine their efforts in drafting by 2013 legally binding controls on the use of mercury in their territories. The commitment comes in a new ‘strategic partnership’ agreed last week (May 16) at the fifth EU-Mexico summit, staged in Comillas, northern Spain.…

BY MARK ROWE

REMEMBER swine flu? While minute-by-minute updates in the international media have evaporated, the H1N1 virus has not, and airports around the world are being advised to maintain elevated levels of vigilance and good hygiene.

In June 2009, the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the H1N1 virus alert to ‘Phase Six’ – signifying a pandemic – where it remains at the time of writing.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

According to the US department of agriculture (USDA), about 70% of the 2.5 billion litres of fruit and vegetable juices sold in Mexico in 2009 were produced domestically. Mexico exported USdollar USD266.99 million worth of juices in 2009, compared to USD308.23 million in 2008 and USD247.29 million in 2007, according the UN Comtrade database.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

After the disappointment of the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, global warming campaigners have hoped UN climate change talks at Cancun, Mexico in December will thrash out a viable successor to the Kyoto agreement, which ends in 2012.…

BY JOHN PAGNI

Russia has a strong drinks sector, for spirits, beer and juices, especially. Alcoholic beverage makers are having to deal with flat sales on the domestic market and a government determined to reduce alcohol consumption, forcing quality producers to look for export sales to boost profits.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, WANG FANGQING, JOHN PAGNI and KEITH NUTHALL

THE RISE of the world’s large emerging markets – Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico (or BRICM to give them a popular acronym) has been especially significant for the drinks industry.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

A decade ago, Latin America was considered to be one of the beer industry’s toughest markets, due to frequent bouts of economic uncertainty and political turmoil. But a lot has changed in the region since the year 2000, and recently instead of recoiling from this region, the biggest beer companies in the world have been fighting tooth and nail for shares of it.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

Despite the difficult economic climate, spirits are still selling well in Latin America, and in 2008, 3 billion litres of spirits were sold, according to Canadean. However, spirits for the most part are not a very dynamic segment, and consumption per capita has remained steady between 4.5 and 4.6 litres for the last five years, and growth was flat at 0.4% in 2009.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

INTRODUCTION

LATIN America has never been a strong player in the global drinks marketplace, but maybe, as much of the region struggles towards unprecedented prosperity, this could change. Mexico has shown the way with the international profile of its beers, notably Corona, and its world-beating Tequila and Mezcal industries.…