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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
CANADA’S largest dairy processor Saputo Inc has announced it will close two plants and cuts 144 jobs to consolidate its Canadian manufacturing operations. A Vancouver cheese plant will close March 31, while a cutting and wrapping plant near Montreal will shut down on June 2.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
UNITED States food producers have been given another health report helping market foods fortified with Vitamin D. A University of Pittsburgh study, published in the US journal Nutrition, says that despite taking prenatal multivitamin supplements, pregnant women are still deficient of vitamin D.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHILIP Morris International (PMI) has released a detailed intelligence dossier on cigarette and other tobacco product counterfeiting, in a bid to encourage the international cooperation it deems necessary to effectively fight this crime. The report highlights 17 countries around the world where it thinks cigarette counterfeiting is a particular problem and where the cigarette company has specific advice: Latvia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Egypt, Belize, Panama, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Ghana.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representative (USTR) has released a series of detailed reports outlining the threats posed by counterfeiters worldwide and the inability of many governments to fight the problem.

Its sheaf of intelligence includes comprehensive warnings from cigarette giant Philip Morris, a company that has adopted a high profile in fighting counterfeiters and smugglers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union (EU) member state Bulgaria is at the centre of two food and drink fraud allegations. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States wants further action over counterfeit spirits from Bulgaria. It has welcomed increased seizures – 1,296 cases of fake US whiskeys in 2006, compared with 284 in 2005, for instance.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
TASTES and trends come and go in cosmetics sectors, but the Japanese cosmetics market is arguably the most volatile of them all. With as many as 1,000 companies vying for a slice of the action – ranging from domestic names that have projected themselves around the world to foreign corporations bringing the chic of Paris or New York and small-scale specialists – the personal care products industry here needs to be constantly evolving.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DISTILLED Spirits Council of the United States has pressed the US Trade Representative office for further action over counterfeit spirits from Bulgaria, even though progress has been made against the problem. In a detailed report, it welcomed increased seizures – 1,296 cases of fake US whiskeys in 2006, compared with 284 AEPV cases in 2005, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXPERT space agencies worldwide have been encouraged by the United Nations to consider the risk of a collision between orbiting satellites with nuclear power sources and debris increasingly orbiting the Earth, littering space. The UN committee on the peaceful uses of outer space has published the first of a series of reports following a December resolution from the UN general assembly to consider the problem.…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul
LAST October, South Korea was admitted as an observer to the world’s premier group of money laundering fighters – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and given the nation’s recent moves to strengthen its anti-money laundering regime its path to full membership in approximately two years appears smooth.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
A WORLDWIDE standard for automotive safety glazing may only be a few months away, now that suppliers have agreed on the content and wording.

The new draft standard was finalized at a January conference in Brussels under the umbrella of CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers), with representatives from the US, Japan, Canada, Belgium, France and Germany taking part.…