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BY MONICA DOBIE

ENJOYING one unit of alcohol each day is generally considered healthy by most health practitioners in helping keep cholesterol levels down, but now researchers have found that injecting alcohol directly through the skin may also help combat cancer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BULGARIA’S first European Union (EU) Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva, responsible for consumer affairs, has called for an EU-wide system mandating declarations of origin for all imported non-EU products. There is no such standard system in the EU, in contrast to the USA and Japan, and although the European Commission proposed creating such labelling rules in 2005, EU ministers have since refused to back the idea.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

KANEBO Cosmetics is aiming to make new inroads into Japan’s 20-something market with the release on December 16 of its new champagne gold and shiny pink cosmetics range, Coffret D’Or (golden casket in English).

Consisting of 44 products, the new range uses two new ingredients designed to enhance depth and radiance, the company claimed.…

Monica Dobie

Ottawa

ENJOYING one unit of alcohol each day is generally considered healthy by most health practitioners in helping keep cholesterol levels down, but now researchers have found that injecting alcohol directly through the skin may also help combat cancer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PROPOSED European Union (EU) directive aimed at protecting food businesses from counterfeit brands has been undermined by a European Court of Justice (ECJ). Earlier this year, the European Parliament approved in principle a directive on ‘criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PROPOSED European Union (EU) directive aimed at protecting clothing and textile businesses from counterfeit brands has been undermined by a European Court of Justice (ECJ). Earlier this year, the European Parliament approved in principle a directive on ‘criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the Asia Pacific paint industry being increasingly innovative in its development of paints and seeking specialist overseas markets for its products, the relevance of international standards for its manufacturing processes is becoming increasingly apparent.

Indeed, the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE: ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLING FOR ITS NAME) last year picked the paint and coatings sector to launch its new collection of CD compilations of its standards.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL

IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry’s largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world’s longest coastline (244,000 km).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has imposed fines totalling Euro 328 million on six European Union (EU) companies making clothing fasteners and attaching machines, for operating cartels over the past 30 years. Britain’s Coats group was fined Euro 122.4 million; Japan’s YKK Group Euro 150.2 million; and Germany’s Prym Euro 40.5 million, while smaller fines of Euro 6 million were imposed on the USA’s Scovill Fasteners Inc; Euro 8.3 million on France’s A.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission will close the bluefin tuna fishery in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean for rest of 2007 because the annual quota of 16,779.5 tonnes has been exhausted. Fisheries controlled by (Greek) Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain will affected.…