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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DISPUTE at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the allegedly illegal protection of African and Caribbean bananas within the European Union (EU) has flared up again. Following a request by the United States a special ‘compliance panel’ has been established today at the WTO to examine whether the EU has fulfilled an earlier ruling ordering European banana market liberalisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HAVING a crystal ball can be useful and profitable for oils and fats businesses wanting to get ahead of the game and know what investments they may need to comply with future regulations and best practice.
But how should this be done?…

BY MARK ROWE

SCIENTISTS are on the verge of knitting nanofibres together to create garments with new standards of durability, thinness, flexibility and waterproofing. The development is seen as a breakthrough in nanotechnology, where scientists have grappled for several years to find a way of knitting minute nanofibres together.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIFFERENTIALS in car prices between the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) persist, the latest showroom survey by the European Commission reveals. While prices in the UK fell by 0.3% from January to July this year, fleet managers looking for bargains would still do well to look abroad, as British prices are often well above the EU average.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE AGREEMENT between the European Union (EU) and the United States over the exchange of personal air passenger information was approved despite “serious doubts” aired by Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor. Writing to German interior minister Wolfgang Schaüble, representing the EU’s January-June president Germany, Hustinx warned: “Data on EU citizens will be readily accessible to a broad range of US agencies and there is no limitation to what US authorities are allowed to do with that data.”…

BY SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore

WITH a long established food manufacturing sector and strong commodity production, the Pakistan food industry, one of the largest industries in the country, has grown with an average pace of 10% over the last three years.…

BY ERIC LYMAN, in Rome

ITALY is Europe’s top producer of clams, and in most years the country consumes more of these small molluscs than any other European country, and what’s mire – local consumption has been increasing dramatically.

In 2005 (the latest statistics available), Italy produced about 85,000 metric tonnes of the three major clam species in the country (grooved carpet shell clams, or Ruditapes decussates; Japanese carpet shell clams, or Ruditapes philippinarum; and striped Venus clams, or Chamelea gallina or Venus gallina).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed adjusting the current European Union (EU) system of classification of chemical substances and mixtures with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonised System (GHS). This internationally accepted classification criteria and labelling system is to be integrated in new EU legislation, replacing the current laws on the classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances (directive 67/548/EEC) and mixtures (directive 1999/45/EC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rail industry federations have united to oppose the introduction of 25 metre so-called ‘monster trucks’ whose future are currently being debated by the European Parliament. A report published by pan-EU rail umbrella groups UIC, CER, EIM, UIRR, UNIFE and ERFA has claimed the trucks would seize business from rail freight, which generates minimal pollution, little congestion and has causes no accidents, a key concern about ‘monster trucks’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNITED States officials have claimed China is effectively locking out processed meat imports by erecting overly tough health rules on foreign meat and poultry products. American diplomats told a meeting of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) sanitary and phytosanitary committee such rules do not apply to Chinese-made meat and poultry products and also alleged “China’s zero tolerance for pathogens on meat and poultry” is “not based on science”.…