AP: Ghost Firms Hinder Oil-For-Food Probe
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GENEVA - The UN-ordered probe into oil-for-food corruption is being seriously hampered by an elaborate system of ghost firms set up around the world to cover the tracks of bribes to Saddam Hussein as he cheated the $60 billion program, a top investigator
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The U.S Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it will not allow imports of Chinese farm-raised catfish, shrimp and other seafood until suppliers can prove the shipments are free from harmful residues.
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Independent investigators looking into alleged corruption in the Iraq oil-for-food program said Monday they would check into allegations that victims of Iraq's 1991 invasion of Kuwait are being overcompensated by about &#36;4 billion.
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Questions have been raised about whether the meat industry has been given too much leeway to police itself.
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An Arizona firm under investigation in the Oakland Park botulism poisonings was selling unapproved anti-wrinkle toxin late last week, although the company had said it was closed, federal officials
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The officials released few details and refused to say where the possibly diseased animal was found. They said it would be four to seven days before more could be confirmed, a delay that livestock industry
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Russia is refusing to provide witnesses or information to the independent investigation into alleged corruption in the multibillion-dollar U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, an official close to the investigation said Wednesday.
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New York (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Like an oil slick in the sea, the scandal related to the Oil-for-food (OFF) programme is getting bigger and bigger.
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Company is not saying when the technology will be commercialized.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - The United Nations has   failed to take on board some of the key recommendations of an   investigation into corruption in its oil-for-food program in   Iraq, an investigator told Reuters on Thursday.
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Widening recalls have forced big American companies to focus on potential hazards that were overlooked in the past.
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NEW YORK -- The UN oil-for-food program chief, under scrutiny for alleged corruption and mismanagement, blocked a proposed audit of his office around the same time he is accused of soliciting lucrative oil deals from Iraq, investigators said. A UN auditing team, which was severely understaffed, said running the $64 billion oil-for-food program was ''a high-risk activity" and a priority ...
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Hain Celestial Group Inc., the biggest U.S. maker of organic foods, has recalled baby food because of concerns they may be contaminated with the bacteria that cause botulism, the Food and Drug Administration said.
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NEW YORK - Congressional investigators examining "a semitrailer truck load" of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the U.N. oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press...
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Wide-open spaces, technological glitches and bitter cold all are potential obstacles to plans to track livestock and protect the food supply from disease and bioterrorism.
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Government officials called the immunity a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute the companyâs employees.
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Brokerage house slips on news the government has increased its investigation into its two failed hedge funds