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BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States Food Safety and Inspection Service has begun posting the names and addresses of US companies that have more than twice sold livestock or poultry that had unallowable levels of chemical residues. Producers are placed on an alert list for one year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW international aid scheme – which will help fund the marketing of organic dyes made in developing countries – has been given US$2.5 million by the Swiss government. This BioTrade Facilitation Programme is to be administered by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Trade Centre, (an UNCTAD/World Trade Organisation joint venture).…

BY MARK ROWE
IF you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn’t just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open.

Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US textile companies that make small labelling errors will soon be getting a break from the country’s Federal Trade Commission. Its Textile Corporate Leniency Policy will allow such mistakes as fibres not being listed in order, a label being covered by another label and a shortened word such as poly used in place of polyester for most businesses.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) is voicing its opposition to the Bush administration’s recent tariff-slashing proposal for the ongoing World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round, saying the trade plan will further open the market to China and wipe out US$13 billion worth of US business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROBLEM for farmers when considering how to influence international negotiations that are as long, complicated and important as the scheduled five years of discussions over updating the World Trade Organisation’s agriculture agreement, is knowing when to spend money on lobbyists to intervene.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MINIMUM and mandatory standards for the care of asylum seekers in European Union (EU) Member States have been agreed by the EU’s Council of Ministers for justice and home affairs. The resulting directive, has been drafted “to ensure that asylum seekers have a dignified standard of living,” said a council memorandum.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RECYCLED nappy materials collected from a pilot municipal programme in California are being used to manufacture shoe insoles. The project launched in Santa Clarita, is the first such scheme in the United States. The six-month endeavour will include 500 families, who volunteer their used nappies in marked bags that are collected weekly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the New Year is upon us, pessimists tend to herald the approach of apocalypse, gloomy tidings and battening down the hatches. And in a year that may see war in the Middle East, the naysayers may say more in 2003 than usual.…