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BY KEITH NUTHALL
PAINT and coating supplies companies paid together tens-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. A report said they paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE CANADIAN government has followed in the footsteps of the European Union (EU) by banning the use of lead acetate in progressive hair dyes namely, Grecian Formula 16 (Canadian sister of the fabled Grecian 2000 Cream in the UK).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO has lost its appeal against a refusal by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to order the United States to immediately scrap anti-dumping duties on Mexican oil country tubular goods (OCTG). Mexico wanted a WTO appellate body to make such a decision, even though the panel did order the US government to review the duties because of errors made in imposing them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUGAR, honey and biscuit supply companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were 79 suppliers of these confectionary-related products (76 supplied sugar) named in a report, who paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a formal state aid investigation into Hungary’s long-term power purchase agreements, concluded between state-owned electricity network operator MVM Rt and foreign-controlled power generators. These deals say MVM Rt must buy a fixed quantity of electricity at a fixed price, guaranteeing, said Brussels, a “return on investment to the generators without any risk”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SMOKERS trying to quit their habit, particularly when surrounded by triggers such as alcohol and second hand-smoke in bars, may now be able to fight the cravings by drinking a new brand of beer that contains nicotine. The beer, known as NicoShot, has three milligrams of nicotine and a 6.3% alcohol content.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has claimed rich country governments spend far too little on educating citizens about reducing public health problems, such as on anti-smoking campaigns. It has claimed that OECD countries spend, on average, only 3% of their healthcare budgets on prevention and public awareness programmes of all kinds.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A GERMAN beer company has created a beer containing nicotine, designed for smokers trying to quit, especially as researchers have proved smokers have difficulty resisting a cigarette when drinking, because they associate the two pastimes. Its beer NicoShot, has three milligrams of nicotine and a 6.3% alcohol content.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has raised concerns about bird flu spreading to Africa, where poverty is so rife and governments so weak, eradication would be practically impossible. With the disease spreading to Croatia from Turkey and Romania (and a quarantine outbreak in Britain), the FAO’s chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech warned of the disease taking hold in sub-Saharan Africa.…

BY MARK ROWE
EVER wondered what happens to your car’s tyres when they are replaced? They may have done 20,000 miles or so on the road, but for many their working life has barely begun. Thanks to the European Union’s End Of Life Vehicles Directive (2000/53/EC), landfills of whole tyres have been banned this year, with shredded tyres to follow in 2006.…