User talk:Claire Harkins

Organic Industry Structure

National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome UK

Booze in News Past Stories

• Big Alcohol are reducing the alcohol volume in key products by 0.2% in order to pay less duty to the UK exchequer. Daily Mail, 22 January 2012, Taxbeater! Stella and Budweiser cut alcohol levels in bid to save millions of pounds in duty hikes, Mirror, 22nd January 2012, Alcohol content of top beers Budweiser, Stella Artois and Beck's cut to save cash

• NME, 26th October 2011, Coroner expected to hear that Amy Winehouse's died from alcohol withdrawal Inquest into the singer's death begins today (October 26) in London
• British Medical Journal, 27th September 2011, Mark Bellis, UK drinking guidelines are better for the alcohol industry than the public
• The Sunday Times, 2nd October 2011, Melanie Newman and Mark Hookham Beer-tax MP ‘blurs lines’ on lobbying rules: Conservative who campaigned for a cut in alcohol tax was being paid more than £30,000-a-year by a consultancy linked to a brewer (Subscription Required)

Former Booze in the News Stories

• Reuters, 12 January 2012, Red wine-heart research slammed with fraud charges
• BBC, 19 January 2012, Beer 'must be sold' at Brazil World Cup, says Fifa, the sale of alcohol in sports stadia is not permitted in Brazil on the grounds of promoting health and reducing violence. This has been the case since 2003. Budweiser is a major sponsor of the FIFA world cup and together Budweiser and FIFA are working together to force a change in Brazilian policy in order to increase alcohol sales.

Alcohol Price and Consumption

Mephedrone

European Travel Retail Confederation