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BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, DAVID HAWORTH, RUSSELL BERMAN, MARK GODFREY and GAVIN BLAIR

INTRODUCTION

WHILE the drinks industry is undoubtedly an important sector in the global economy, the honest truth is that there are bigger players in town: the IT sector, steel making, and food, to name a handful.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) RASFF food safety alert system has warned of two separate seizures by Norwegian customs of American almond exports because they contained an unauthorised food additive propylene oxide. Meanwhile French authorities have seized aflatoxin-tainted dried figs from Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project will establish a consortium of microbial resource centres – called EMbaRC – (NOTE: MIX OF CASES IS CORRECT) harmonising across Europe ways of conserving and identifying samples of organisms such as bacteria, viruses and micro-fungi.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FINAL shape of the European Union’s (EU) third energy packaging and its varied options on unbundling has generated concern, especially amongst acolytes of full scale liberalisation. The debates over this legislation have pitted countries such as France, with a mercantilist approach that a borderless market is an opportunity for local, especially large, companies; and liberalisers such as the Dutch and the British seeing the union as a massive market in which the fittest thrive, from whatever country.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS

POLITICALLY stable Botswana is moving ahead with investment in expanded and upgraded airports despite the economic downturn which has hit the southern African country’s tourism sector.

The main project is the US$60 million upgrade and expansion of the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in the capital Gaborone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, LEAH GERMAIN and MONICA DOBIE

MAYBE the best sign that renewable energies have hit the mainstream is that they now have their very own international organisation: the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Launched in Bonn, Germany, this January, with the support of 76 countries, including its host nation, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden, the roster of signatory nations has since been swollen by India and Belarus.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON

A HANDFUL of Chinese sweetener companies are ramping up both their capacity and service levels to build a competitive advantage in the global food industry.

China produces about 180,000 tonnes of high intensity sweeteners per year, according to Professor Zhu Lujia, of the sweetener committee of the China Food Additives Association (CFAA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has drawn back from a robust collective response to the swine flu crisis, despite the disease spreading around Europe. Meeting on Thursday, the EU Council of Ministers for health rejected a French proposal for an EU-wide travel ban to Mexico, the source of the outbreak.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

SCIENTISTS from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands have developed a synthetic version of the natural protective cream found on newborn babies. Its properties will in particular help protect babies born prematurely against temperature changes, dehydration and infection as well as providing adults with relief from skin disease.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN this year’s Money Laundering Bulletin series of articles on the development of an international profession of anti-money laundering (AML) specialists, we have often examined specialists working at the sharp end. But that is not the whole story of course.…