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ONE of America's largest clothing retailers is being sued for alleged racial bias in their hiring practices. Nine young adults, including students and graduates of the University of California and [...]

A CAMPAIGN against a proposed third runway at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport has been strengthened after Washington state government was allowed to join a lawsuit opposing the project. It claims the [...]

PUMPING nitrogen into aircraft fuel tanks cuts the risk of explosions, according to Boeing Co. A test it conducted showed nitrogen reduces the amount of oxygen in a plane's belly [...]

AN AMERICAN appeals court has ruled that the US cigarette market is so 'highly competitive,' paying vendors for display space does not 'substantially foreclose' competition. The judgment affirmed a lower [...]

BUPROPION, better known as Zyban, may help with smoking cessation, says a pharmaceutical industry-funded study from the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research on [...]

THE AMERICAN textile, apparel and fibre industry has planned to launch an 'aggressive' lobbying campaign to persuade its government to try and moderate the surge in Chinese exports to the [...]

THE US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 15 members of two cigarette smuggling organisations that has allegedly trafficked about US$20 million (Pounds12 million) in contraband cigarettes from [...]

CANADA'S DynaMotive Energy Systems will build a plant in British Columbia this year to convert 100 tonnes per day of biomass into nearly 16,000 gallons of fuel. The company's process [...]

HYBRID-ELECTRIC-DIESEL powered vans will soon be delivering packages to some US destinations. Fed Ex Express has purchased 20 of the vehicles for four American cities for a national pilot scheme. [...]

A CANADIAN professor wants to know what makes the gecko stick to surfaces, research that will be used to promote the creation of artificial glues. In a series of experiments, [...]

AN AMERICAN labour tribunal has ruled that retail giant Wal-Mart broke the law by refusing to bargain with meat department workers whose local union branch had been essentially dismantled by [...]

FROM next January, US schools will have the option of purchasing irradiated meat for the country's US Department of Agriculture administered National School Lunch Programme, which feeds 27 million American [...]

TEXAS-BASED poultry giant, Pilgrim's Pride, is buying rival ConAgra Foods' chicken division. The acquisition, expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year, will double Pilgrim's annual sales [...]

MORE than 300 sheep have died after being exposed to a mine toxin in a deadly experiment conducted by the University of Idaho, USA. Researchers grazed the 1,400 sheep on [...]

DEMOGRAPHICS are changing the contents of prepared frozen meat meals in the US. 'Ethnic' frozen food sales reached US$2.2 billion in 2001, according to the American Frozen Food Institute. The [...]

FAST-FOOD giant, McDonald's, will prohibit direct suppliers from using 24 growth promoters that are closely related to antibiotics used in human medicine. The use of antibiotics in animal feed has [...]

THE US government wants to limit pharmaceutical manufacturers to a one-month window in which to challenge a generic patent. Washington says multiple, consecutive patent challenges have been costing American billions [...]

AN AMERICAN beef company has turned to Canada to provide a steady supply of organic beef to the EU. The Dakota Beef Company signed an exclusive agreement with the Canadian [...]

MORE than 300 sheep have died after being exposed to a mine toxin in a deadly experiment conducted by the University of Idaho, USA. Researchers grazed the 1,400 sheep on [...]

DEMOGRAPHICS are changing the contents of supermarket freezers in the US. 'Ethnic' frozen food sales reached US$2.2 billion in 2001, according to the American Frozen Food Institute. The biggest growth [...]

IN a push to promote American agricultural products overseas, the country's Department of Agriculture is giving US$110 million (GBPounds 67 million) to 65 American trade organisations. One fifth of the [...]

THE ALREADY-SOARING premiums for insurance policies compensating US workers who have suffered on-the-job injuries will continue to rise, according to a research institute that looks into the challenges facing the [...]

IN order to persuade the US government to change its position on Chinese exports, six groups have planned an 'aggressive' joint lobbying campaign in Washington. The American Textile Manufacturers Institute, [...]

EMISSIONS trading programmes can achieve environmental goals faster and more economical than other alternative ecological policies, says report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Pew Center on Global Climate Change. [...]

ONE of the most public forms of corporate ostentation, the annual report, is dressing down in America. Many US companies are eschewing glossy paper and colour photos, choosing instead to [...]

THE LAWYER for the former president of US chemical company DuCoa LP is being bullish in his defence of his client, who is facing price-fixing charges over the American choline [...]

THE US government has announced increased funding to help its state food laboratories deal with possible terrorist attacks directly or indirectly involving food poisoning. By expanded their capacities, Washington hopes [...]

THE US government has signed a bilateral textile pact with Vietnam that gives the south-east Asian country the most generous access to the American market ever granted in an initial [...]

A PROCESS that can convert old chip oil and other food waste into inexpensive bio-diesel will soon be available to food and catering companies. Canada's Biox Corp. says its first [...]

THE US government has announced increased funding to help its state food laboratories deal with possible terrorist attacks directly or indirectly involving food poisoning. The Food and Drug Administration and [...]

THE US House of Representatives has put Alaska drilling back into its latest energy bill while, on the other side of Congress, the Senate has backed away from the contentious [...]

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute wants the US government to halt trade negotiations with Vietnam, while it gets an accurate picture of the abuse of its quotas by Chinese exporters [...]

THE USA government has finalised procedures for framing safeguard protection minimising the impacts on the American textile industry from Chinese imports, with details due to be released soon. US Under [...]

THREE potentially expensive class-action lawsuits have been filed against large US grocery chains, Kroger, Safeway and Albertsons over the colour of their salmon. The lawsuits, filed in King County Superior [...]

AN AREA of northern Bolivia is to be the focus of an innovative Canadian aid mission designed to offer advice on preventing landslides in communities pock-marked with small mines, notably [...]

THE AMERICAN Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has called for a ban on US textiles, apparel and footwear imports from Myanmar (Burma), due to the "repressive nature of the ruling [...]

US poultry companies, including Tyson Foods, Cobb-Vantress, Peterson Farms, Simmons Foods, Cargill, and George's, have ordered their chicken suppliers in Arkansas to stop spreading chicken litter on fields, following a [...]

KRAFT Foods wants the US government to make sure GM crops being grown to make pharmaceuticals steer clear from the food supply. The food industry giant said if the American [...]

THE UNITED States senate is examining a new air cargo bill that would impact upon British security companies and professionals working in the shipping and airline industries. The senate's committee [...]

RESEARCHERS from the USA's University of Wisconsin-Madison have isolated a chemical signal from tapeworms that may help prolong the time it takes for medicines to move through the small intestine. [...]

FACED with its first quarterly loss since the company went public in 1965, McDonald's is planning some changes to its restaurants. Chief executive James R. Cantalupo said in a meeting [...]

TEXAS-BASED Rocky Mountain Energy Corp has been placed in receivership after the USA Securities and Exchange Commission accused the small company of pumping up its stock price by issuing numerous [...]

TO improve air quality, the City of Los Angeles has unveiled a new power plant that runs on fuel-cell technology. It is estimated that the plant, built by FuelCell Energy, [...]

AMERICAN chicken chain KFC has adopted eight humane guidelines for its suppliers that address breeding, hatching and raising of poultry, including adequate growth space and routine inspections of facilities. The [...]

THE AMERICAN Bar Association is pushing US state governments to pass laws protecting the position of lawyers to handle legal work in their jurisdictions, forcing competing professions to drop paralegal [...]

UNITED States national and regional administrations need to better link their federal and state food safety rules, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences. In their [...]

A TORONTO, Canada, company has developed a bolt-on pilot food oil processing plant that can allow food businesses to convert waste oil and grease into sellable bio-diesel. Biox Corp.'s technique [...]

KFC, America's largest chicken chain, says it will be changing some slaughter practices in order treat its chickens more humanely. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company said that it has adopted eight [...]

SEVERAL major bacterial food-borne illnesses seem to be on the decline in the United States, according to a recent survey of clinical laboratories that test for infection. In their annual [...]

AMERICAN companies that commit accounting fraud are willing to pay millions of dollars in additional income taxes on phony earnings to continue their charade, according to a University of Michigan [...]