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==Organic Industry Structure==
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[[File:Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3). -online.png|center|<ref>Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3).-online.png|Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3)-online|Acquisitions by the Top 30 Food Processors in North America. (click to resize)</ref>]]
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[[Image:Tosspock3.jpg|right|thumb|Claire's favourite Star Trek character]]
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[[National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome UK]]
  
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==  Booze in News Past Stories  ==
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*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, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090136/Taxbeater-Stella-Budweiser-cut-alcohol-levels-bid-save-millions-pounds-duty-hikes.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Taxbeater! Stella and Budweiser cut alcohol levels in bid to save millions of pounds in duty hikes], Mirror, 22nd January 2012, [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/22/alcohol-content-of-top-beers-budweiser-stella-artois-and-beck-s-cut-to-save-cash-115875-23712345/ Alcohol content of top beers Budweiser, Stella Artois and Beck's cut to save cash]
  
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Have a look at the resources section of the page on CoRWM: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/CoRWM or http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Bell_Pottinger_Communications#References
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*NME, 26th October 2011, [http://www.nme.com/news/amy-winehouse/60020 Coroner expected to hear that Amy Winehouse's died from alcohol withdrawal Inquest into the singer's death begins today (October 26) in London]
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*British Medical Journal, 27th September 2011, Mark Bellis, [http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d6023.extract UK drinking guidelines are better for the alcohol industry than the public]
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*The Sunday Times, 2nd October 2011, Melanie Newman and Mark Hookham [http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article788525.ece 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)
  
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The key thing is to reference docuemtns fully (ie author, title, source, vdate etc) and to upload the documents to the site via the 'upload image' link under 'special pages'. To determine the url for the uploaded file right click on the name of it once uploaded and 'copy link location'.
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== Former Booze in the News Stories ==
  
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*Reuters, 12 January 2012, [http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/12/us-red-wine-heart-idUSTRE80B0BH20120112 Red wine-heart research slammed with fraud charges]
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*BBC, 19 January 2012, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16624823 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.
  
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[[Alcohol Price and Consumption]]
  
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[[File:Mephadrone.jpg|thumb|right| Mephedrone]] <ref> Fantasia [http://www.fantazia.org.uk/drugs/mephedrone.htm Mephedrone] accessed 13th June 2012</ref>
  
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author, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/2/23/Foi.pdf title for this doc] dates etc et
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[[European Travel Retail Confederation]]
  
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look at the formatting of the spock pic to get the right formatting for Brian Stewart...
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[[Penn Schoen and Berland]]
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--[[User:David|David]] 16:18, 22 Feb 2007 (GMT)
 
  
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== EPC Alcohol ==
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In 2001 the European Commission had begun the process of developing an alcohol strategy for Europe, which initially involved gathering information on the extent of alcohol related harm and possible policy solutions.  By 2006 the initial European Alcohol Strategy were being slowly introduced.  The alcohol industry were against a Europe wide strategy, but were keen for any action to be based on self regulation of the industry.   
  
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In 2005 and 2006, just before the introduction of the strategy, DG Sanco asked the European Policy Centre (EPC) to host four meetings between the alcohol industry and health NGOs.  These Round Table on “Alcohol related harm: ways forward” aimed to reach consensus on policy interventions and to ‘identify areas of agreement between the stakeholders as to actions that can contribute effectively to the reduction of alcohol-related harm and indicate where and why there is disagreement, and in so doing help create confidence between stakeholders’.<ref> Corporate Europe Observatory, [http://www.corporateeurope.org/observer2/epc.html Part One: The European Policy Centre] European Think Tank Series, Issue 2, October 1998, </ref> According to the [[Institute of Alcohol Studies]] these meetings were "At the behest of the [alcohol] Industry, DG SANCO officials organised roundtable discussion through the aegis of the European Policy Centre, between representatives of the Commission, Member States, Industry and NGOs to discuss the draft proposals for a European Alcohol Policy Strategy". <ref> Rutherford, D. (2006) [http://www.ias.org.uk/What-we-do/Publication-archive/The-Globe/Issue-3-2006/Editorial.aspx AIS Editorial] The Globe Issue accessed 28th October 2013 </ref>
  
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leave the page where it is and note that its successor is the noew org. Might be worth including a couple of lines on the new oprg and noting that S and N no longer fund.
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The meetings involved working through 78 issues or policy proposals related to alcohol harm reduction that were presented by the [[European Commission]] in an informal draft of their communication on Alcohol.  Participants graded each item using a traffic lights system, green issues were broadly agreeable to all present, amber a possibility and red a clear no.  68 of the measures were marked green,  Seven were amber, indicating no overall agreement but that some compromises might be reached.  Three were categorised as red issues where the industry simply refused to negotiate. <ref> Anderson & Baumberg, [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01713.x Alcohol Policy: Who should sit at the table?] ''Addiction Volume'' 102, No. 2 pp 335-336 (online subscription required)</ref>
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Dr [[Peter Anderson]], author of the Alcohol In Europe report (2006) commented “The European Policy Centre (EPC) describes itself as ‘an independent, not-for-profit think tank, committed to making European integration work’.  Its independence is, of course, ensured by the fact that its prime corporate members and sponsors include [[InBev]], the world’s largest brewer and [[Philip Morris]] International”. <ref> Anderson & Baumberg, [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01713.x Alcohol Policy: Who should sit at the table?] ''Addiction Volume'' 102, No. 2 pp 335-336 (online subscription required)</ref> The final outcome of this process, and other consultations resulted in the launch of the [[European Alcohol and Health Forum]].
  
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In 1998 [[Diageo]] and The [[Weinberg Group]] helped set up a [[European Policy Centre]] Forum.  Correspondence shows a representative of [[Diageo]] trying to organise a discount for a booking made by [[Weinberg Group]] for a forum run by the EPC. <ref> Legacy Library, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/l/m/g/lmg63a99/Slmg63a99.pdf Fax to Sarah Bennett BLRA from Andrea Livett of Diageo] 10th March 1998, accessed 7th November 2011 </ref>. [[Weinberg Group]] are well known for their work assisting tobacco, alcohol and chemical industries.
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can you make sure that you reference with full refs eg in the Grant page: Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 217-218, 2000
 
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--[[User:David|David]] 13:51, 7 Mar 2007 (GMT)
 
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I think your decision to target the Alcohol issue is a good one.  I would suggest that you think seriously about blitzing the Exec or the DoH with foi's on this as the exec has a new strategy on this and ti would be more than interesting to find out more about their arrangement with the industry.  I read your stuff on Portmans charity being reshapedd.  I think this is worth a little digging as it is a pretty unusual approach.  A few Fois on that?
 
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Found this, thought it might be useful:
 
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Like tobacco, alcohol is a legal killer. According to the York Centre for Health Economics, 33,000 deaths a year in Britain are alcohol related,85 as are one in four hospital admissions.86 About 20 percent of strokes in young people are preceded by bouts of heavy drinking.87 Alcohol, like other drugs, can be either a leisure drug, a chemical walking stick or a health hazard.
 
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Governments can reduce some potential danger by implementing policies such as drink driving campaigns, or 'Less is better' publicity.88 The government initially adopted Royal Medical College guidelines in 1987 for safe levels of alcohol consumption of 21 units per week for men and 14 for women ( a unit is half a pint of beer, a glass of wine or a single measure of spirits). Yet most drink advertisements target the young heavy drinker to try and establish brand loyalty. According to Alcohol Concern, approximately 8 million people drink more than the safe limit.89 Senior medical officers protested strongly when the government, pressurised by the drink lobby, changed the guidelines just before Christmas 1995 and implied that 28 units were safe.90
 
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Occasionally in history governments have inhibited the drinks trade, but not to protect their citizens from the effects of alcohol. Sometimes the suppression of alcohol has been used as the excuse for colonial land grabs. The eradication of 'whisky trading', for example, was used in this way by the Canadian Mounted Police in the 19th century.91 The elimination of 'poteen' production was used as an excuse by the British for evicting the Irish during the land clearances in the last century.'92 In Britain during the First World War liquor licensing hours were imposed to discipline the workforce and strict controls were introduced on the quantity and quality of the beer. Scared by the strike wave in 1919, the government agreed that an increase in the supply 'would do much to allay the prevailing unrest'.93
 
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Today many governments are more likely to encourage the expansion of the markets in dangerous drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, while simultaneously hinting at possible health service cuts or charges in relation to 'self induced' addictive smoking or drinking. This is similar to the Victorian morality of ascribing all social ills to individual degeneracy. Some of the rhetoric of the temperance movement was as hysterical as the anti-drugs hysteria today. Well into the 1940s 'Band of Hope' meetings were misinforming people that one drink could lead to alcoholism. Eight year olds signed the pledge never to touch drink. It was similar to the 'Say No to Drugs' campaign touted by Nancy Reagan in the 1980s - and just as ineffective.
 
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Currently drinks manufacturers are pushing alcoholic lemonades and other alco-pops for youngsters at a time when 1,000 children a year are admitted to hospitals with acute alcoholic poisoning.94 Alcohol Concern has attempted to put pressure on the drinks industry to stop promoting under age drinking with alco-pops. The alco-pops market is worth around £400 million a year and in May 1997 a survey found that 65 percent of boys and 54 percent of girls were drinking regularly by the age of 16.95 In July 1997 the British Medical Association called for tougher laws on alco-pops with a warning that an epidemic of liver disease could occur in 20 years if young people were encouraged to drink heavily.96 Whilst under heavy pressure to withdraw alco-pops, two new marketing gimmicks were introduced. Milk drinks called Moo and Super Milch strawberry and banana flavour with more alcohol than a pint of bitter and sachets of 40 percent proof spirits called Totpacs were on the market.97
 
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In theory the industry has its own regulating authority, the Portman Group, which operates a voluntary code of advertising standards.98 Even the Portman Group upheld a complaint about the new drinks but nothing happened. The Portman Group claims to be the watchdog of alcohol advertising but it has no sanctions and no teeth. Indeed its declared aim is 'to promote sensible drinking'. This statement of intent has been challenged by Professor Nick Heater, Director of the Newcastle Centre for Alcohol and Drug Studies, who claims their agenda is slightly different: 'The attempt to distance alcohol as a drug from other kinds of drug and to give it a good face is the main activity of groups like the Portman Group... In late 1994 the Portman Group operated a scheme which offered medical scientists £2,000 pending their agreement to criticise a damning new book on alcohol'. 99
 
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It might be a little too strong to claim that the impetus behind the hysteria about ecstasy originates from a drinks industry which finds its profits threatened by the popularity of competing dance drugs. But a report on Leisure Futures published in 1993 revealed that between 1987 and 1992 pub attendance in the UK fell by 11 percent and projected a further decrease by 1997. Estimates used in the report suggested the percentage of 16 to 24 year olds taking any illegal drug doubled to nearly 30 percent between 1989 and 1992. The report concludes, 'This of course poses a significant threat to spending for such sectors as licensed drinks retailers and drink companies. Firstly, some young people are turning away from alcohol to stimulants; secondly, raves are extremely time consuming and displace much of the time and energy which might have been expended on other leisure activities like pubs or drinking at home'.100 So, at the very least, the drinks industry will welcome the moral panic over illegal drugs.
 
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The investigative journalist Jim Carey examined the portfolios of the companies which financed the 1,500 posters showing the ecstasy victim Leah Betts and the word 'sorted'. He found links between the posters and Löwenbräu and Red Bull Energy drinks company. Red Bull is apparently gaining ground as a 'substitute for ecstasy'.101 Jim Carey also argues that the Entertainment (Increased Penalties) Act in 1990 which placed fines of up to £20,000 on the organisers of unlicensed raves was a legislative victory for the alcohol industry.
 
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Finally, at a time when drug taking is linked to crime it is appropriate to consider that, according to the British Medical Association report Guidelines to Alcohol and Accidents published in 1989, 'alcohol was associated with 60-70 percent of homicides, 75 percent of stabbings and 50 percent of domestic assaults'.102
 
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Issue 77 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM, quarterly journal of the Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
 
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Latest revision as of 11:40, 29 October 2013

Organic Industry Structure

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National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome UK

Booze in News Past Stories

Former Booze in the News Stories

Alcohol Price and Consumption

Mephedrone

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  1. ↑ Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3).-online.png|Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3)-online|Acquisitions by the Top 30 Food Processors in North America. (click to resize)
  2. ↑ Fantasia Mephedrone accessed 13th June 2012

European Travel Retail Confederation

Penn Schoen and Berland

EPC Alcohol

In 2001 the European Commission had begun the process of developing an alcohol strategy for Europe, which initially involved gathering information on the extent of alcohol related harm and possible policy solutions. By 2006 the initial European Alcohol Strategy were being slowly introduced. The alcohol industry were against a Europe wide strategy, but were keen for any action to be based on self regulation of the industry.

In 2005 and 2006, just before the introduction of the strategy, DG Sanco asked the European Policy Centre (EPC) to host four meetings between the alcohol industry and health NGOs. These Round Table on “Alcohol related harm: ways forward” aimed to reach consensus on policy interventions and to ‘identify areas of agreement between the stakeholders as to actions that can contribute effectively to the reduction of alcohol-related harm and indicate where and why there is disagreement, and in so doing help create confidence between stakeholders’.[1] According to the Institute of Alcohol Studies these meetings were "At the behest of the [alcohol] Industry, DG SANCO officials organised roundtable discussion through the aegis of the European Policy Centre, between representatives of the Commission, Member States, Industry and NGOs to discuss the draft proposals for a European Alcohol Policy Strategy". [2]

The meetings involved working through 78 issues or policy proposals related to alcohol harm reduction that were presented by the European Commission in an informal draft of their communication on Alcohol. Participants graded each item using a traffic lights system, green issues were broadly agreeable to all present, amber a possibility and red a clear no. 68 of the measures were marked green, Seven were amber, indicating no overall agreement but that some compromises might be reached. Three were categorised as red issues where the industry simply refused to negotiate. [3]

Dr Peter Anderson, author of the Alcohol In Europe report (2006) commented “The European Policy Centre (EPC) describes itself as ‘an independent, not-for-profit think tank, committed to making European integration work’. Its independence is, of course, ensured by the fact that its prime corporate members and sponsors include InBev, the world’s largest brewer and Philip Morris International”. [4] The final outcome of this process, and other consultations resulted in the launch of the European Alcohol and Health Forum.

In 1998 Diageo and The Weinberg Group helped set up a European Policy Centre Forum. Correspondence shows a representative of Diageo trying to organise a discount for a booking made by Weinberg Group for a forum run by the EPC. [5]. Weinberg Group are well known for their work assisting tobacco, alcohol and chemical industries.

  1. ↑ Corporate Europe Observatory, Part One: The European Policy Centre European Think Tank Series, Issue 2, October 1998,
  2. ↑ Rutherford, D. (2006) AIS Editorial The Globe Issue accessed 28th October 2013
  3. ↑ Anderson & Baumberg, Alcohol Policy: Who should sit at the table? Addiction Volume 102, No. 2 pp 335-336 (online subscription required)
  4. ↑ Anderson & Baumberg, Alcohol Policy: Who should sit at the table? Addiction Volume 102, No. 2 pp 335-336 (online subscription required)
  5. ↑ Legacy Library, Fax to Sarah Bennett BLRA from Andrea Livett of Diageo 10th March 1998, accessed 7th November 2011
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