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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has circulated throughout the European Union (EU) series of consumer alerts made over potentially harmful nail polish receiving retail bans in member states. Using its RAPEX alert service, the Commission warned of a marketing ban in Estonia of US-made nail polish range Pinnacle.…

BY MARK ROWE

SWITZERLAND’S competition and monopolies agency Comco has explained its concerns to just-food.com behind its launch of a four-month investigation into Swiss-based Coop’s planned acquisition of Carrefour’s stake in retailer Distributis AG amid concerns that the move may breach competition laws.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

SWITZERLAND’S Nestlé, the world’s biggest food and beverage company, played down reports that it had been fined Euro 6.2 million for participating in a Greek dairy cartel. Speaking to just-food.com the company’s spokesman François-Xavier Perroud said he was aware of press reports to this effect, but stressed that over the past two years "Nestlé has not been in the milk market at all in Greece."…

BY MARK ROWE and PAUL COCHRANE

IT is something of an understatement to describe Iran as a peripheral player on the international paint scene. The country’s share of the world market in paints and varnishes in 2007 is, according to research analysts Gobi International, just 0.5%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has conformed it has raided a group of international freight forwarders in an anti-trust inquiry into price fixing allegations. European financial newspapers have since reported that Switzerland’s Kuehne & Nagel International and Panalpina Welttransport Holding have admitted being raided, as has the Zurich-based Schenker transport unit of German railway corporation Deutsche Bahn.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MANY European academics and experts in the study of commercial crime are more than happy to discuss the state of play in the sector in an informal way with outsiders; others may be a little more cautious. But all are likely to suggest ways to gain further assistance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Brussels

A TEAM of European and Asian researchers has linked more than 40,000 computers across 45 countries to speed studies into developing an anti-viral drug that can defeat bird flu. Funded by the European Union’s (EU) Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project, the computing grid is analysing the potential of more than 500,000 drug-like molecules.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE SIGNING of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States is expected to fuel an already booming seafood trade. And with the Koreans having a host of other FTAs in the works, it appears this seafood-producing nation will use free trade agreements to push its seafood products to every continent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

European Commission officials are deciding whether to launch legal action against 22 member states of the European Union (EU) who have failed to implement key legislation allowing researchers to move between EU universities. Because non-EU researchers have faced burdensome immigration procedures when undertaking research projects involving working at different European universities, the EU approved a ‘researchers’ visa’ directive in 2005, ordering member states to introduce a fast-track immigration system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has the proposed acquisition of Novartis’s Gerber baby-food business by Switzerland’s Nestlé. Although the merging businesses offer some similar manufactured baby food in Poland, Cyprus, Iceland and Portugal, Brussels concluded there was no serious competition risk.…