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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has transferred more than US$2 million of residual funds from the now defunct Iraq Oil-for-Food fund to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to settle the Iraqi government’s remaining arrears with the UN agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHARMACEUTICAL companies paid together millions of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were more than 250 medicine suppliers, from countries, many from the Middle East, but also a significant number from Europe, named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SOAP supplies companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were 101 (mostly toilet) soap suppliers, from countries largely from the Middle East and east Asia, named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) ‘association agreement’ with Chile is likely to be deepened by allowing EU wines, spirits and aromatised drinks to enter the Chilean market duty free. The EU Council of Ministers has approved the move, which would be agreed at a future EU-Chile association council meeting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to simplify European Union (EU) rules on a range of nuclear topics, part of a major overhaul of EU legislation that has been unveiled by the current Commission. In a bid to make European laws more user-friendly, Brussels has said it will:

*Recast 10 directives, decisions and recommendations on nuclear safety into one directive on “the protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDEPENDENT Inquiry Committee into the United Nations’ Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed 14 British companies paid kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein regime to secure contracts to supply humanitarian supplies. There were also four British companies that paid “surcharges” to secure contracts to lift oil from Iraq to help buy medicines, food and other essentials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDEPENDENT Inquiry Committee into the United Nations’ Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed 14 British companies paid kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein regime to secure contracts to supply humanitarian supplies under the scheme. There were also four British companies that paid “surcharges” to secure contracts to lift oil from Iraq to help buy medicines, food and other supposed essentials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS will be held between the European Commission and European Union (EU) member states over ending nine-year-old restrictions on selling British beef products to the rest of the EU. This follows Brussels’ food and veterinary office concluding Britain had met two key conditions for opening negotiations, namely measures to control and eradicate BSE and related TSEs were in place and were effective.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CONSUMING soft drinks from vending machines during school hours has no impact on adolescent obesity according to a new study performed by the Center for Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy at the University of Maryland, USA.

Analysis based on data from two large US government food consumption surveys and data from previous studies performed on the topic, concluded that teens do not drink enough servings of soft drinks from vending machines to make a dent in the their body mass index (BMI).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DYE supplies 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 four dye suppliers named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…