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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a guide for the US pharmaceutical industry, named “Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions.” The document was created to help drug companies comply with a new FDA recommendation that requires firms to submit results of genomic tests when seeking approval for new drugs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Fund for the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is giving US$26 million to west Africa’s Burkina Faso to boost its fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria; the money will be distributed by the United Nations Development Programme.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States will become the largest wine market in the world by the end of the decade, according to the California-based Wine Institute. Currently, only France and Italy have more demand for wine and last year, whilst wine consumption dropped to 370 million cases in France, American consumers drank 14 million more cases, rising to 250 million cases.…

BY PHILIP FINE

TRADE Ministers at recent Free Trade Area of the Americas meetings have failed to strike an agreement that slashes north and south American food tariffs and subsidies. No deadlines were set to solve this rancorous issue, with the United States and Brazil opting for a solution to be struck at the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ETHIOPIA is to receive US$1.2 million’s worth of medicines from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to fight high rates of malaria infections in the country’s Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and ‘Southern Nations, Nationalities and People Regional’ states. This worst outbreak since 1998 is being compounded by serious malnutrition following a drought.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BEST place to break the law is where the closest policeman is 100’s of miles away. And where might that criminal utopia be? Siberia, the Sahara, the Amazon? No, it’s the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the developed world’s doorstep, where fishing crime is becoming a real problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUD is centre stage again in European Union (EU) news, following a series of high profile scandals, for instance in Eurostat. Now OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud agency has produced an annual report showing that it is detecting more irregularities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL disasters cost the world US$60 billion in 2003, up from around US$55 billion the previous year, a Munich Re assessment for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed. The bulk of this year’s losses were caused by weather-related catastrophes, said UNEP, which is linking them with global warming.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SHIPMENT of green onions from Mexico has recently killed three people and sickened more than 600 in the United States. The onions – served up at Mexican restaurant chain Chi Chi’s – carried the Hepatitis A virus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CEO of the Coca-Cola Company Douglas N. Daft has been appointed as co-chairman of a United States-European Union joint-body charged with making suggestions on removing barriers hindering trade. Mr Daft will co-chair the Transatlantic Business Dialogue for 2004-5 with Unilever chairman Niall FitzGerald.…