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BY LEE ADENDOORF, KEITH NUTHALL and MJ DESCHAMPS

EUROPEAN Union (EU) governments are facing a political crossroads on a key question whose answer will have an important impact on the EU knitwear sector – both manufacturers and retail. That is the issue of rules of origin and whether there should be an EU-wide law that says clothing and accessories (plus a wide range of other manufactured goods) should be sold with labels saying which country they are made in, if they are imported from outside the EU.…

BY EMMA JACKSON and KARRYN MILLER

IN October 2010, new olive oil standards came into effect in the United States for the first time since 1948, and Australia’s first olive oil standard ever is in the works. These new standards are meant to bring the two countries closer to international olive oil purity standards mandated by the Codex Alimentarius and the International Olive Council (IOC) to which Europe and other traditional olive oil-producing (and consuming) countries already adhere.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF, ALYSSA MCMURTRY, MAKKI MARSEILLES, and KEITH NUTHALL

GLOBAL olive oil manufacturing is on a roll, with the International Olive Council (IOC) saying 2009-10 world production was 3.02 million tonnes, a season-on-season increase of 354,500 tonnes (+13%). This would be the second best olive oil production year ever, next only to the record of 3.17 million tonnes produced in 2003/04.…

BY MARK ROWE and E BLAKE BERRY

GIVEN Poland’s reputation as a reliable member of the international community, it is perhaps surprising Poland was (until 2009 at least) reckoned by the European Commission and the US Department of State to have one of the EU’s poorest records for tackling money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERAPY dogs can be a great nursing aid, but new European Union (EU)-funded research has shown how pure bred dogs can be powerful resource for investigating the sources of disease in human patients. The fact is that dogs suffer from many of the same diseases as their two-legged owners, and it is a lot easier to investigate the genetic causes of such illnesses in pure bred dogs.…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

However, not everyone is happy about the new law, especially those in the hospitality industry.

"It is awful, it’s the worst thing that has ever happened to my business," said Javier Garcia Simon, owner of Bar Café J.…

BY WANG FANGQING

IN maybe one of the most telling signs that China is opening up to the west, as much as it is exporting products there, that Chinese consumers are purchasing more olive oil and moreover, they are using it in a shift to a more cosmopolitan diet, including healthy Mediterranean-based recipes.…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

According to the Spanish health ministry, 29.5 per cent of Spaniards over the age of 16 smoke; it also reports that there are around 50,000 smoking-related deaths every year in the country. As a result these public place smoking rules are being celebrated by many, including medical associations and the government, as a way to combat Spain’s high rate of smoking and to protect non-smokers, children and those working in the service industry from the effects of passive smoking.…

BY JOSEPHINE MCKENNA, in Rome

ON the face of it the record is impressive. In the past 12 months Italian customs officials and other agents have carried out raids on counterfeiters from Milan in the north to Taranto in the south, seizing millions of euros’ worth fake fashion merchandise.…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

Spain’s tobacco consumers have been hit by a new tough anti-smoking law. The country was formerly a liberal haven for smokers. The national tobacco vendors association is unhappy and so is the bar and café industry – major losses in profits are predicted.…