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Poultry Industry Challenges Campaign Ad (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Poultry industry representatives criticized Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson Thursday for campaign commercials accusing them of using the state's rivers like open sewers.

Industry tactics threaten to derail European alcohol strategy (EurekAlert!) - A European strategy to tackle the health impact of alcohol may be the victim of a carefully planned attack by representatives of the alcohol industry, using tactics associated with tobacco manufacturers, warns public health expert, Professor Martin McKee, in this week's BMJ.

Poultry Industry Challenges Campaign Ad (KiplingerForecasts.com) - (AP) TULSA, Okla. Poultry industry representatives criticized Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson Thursday for campaign commercials accusing them of using the state's rivers like open sewers.

Spitzer takes on life settlement industry (Financial Times) - Eliot Spitzer, New York state attorney-general, on Thursday took on the growing $6bn life settlement industry – a specialised insurance business – charging it with antitrust violations and fraud.

Drinks industry 'fighting abuse strategy' (Times Online) - THE rebuff to Patricia Hewitt came as health experts said that a European strategy to tackle alcohol abuse was under attack from the drinks industry....

Executive Order Speeds Up Changes in Health Information Management Industry (EContent Magazine) - An executive order signed late this past summer by President George W. Bush requires that government agencies make available to the public information about public health-care cost and quality, creating an unexpected, and unprecedented, opportunity for the health care information management industry.

World's Largest RFID Industry Event, RFID World, Returns to Dallas, Texas in 2007 (SYS-CON Media) - RFID World, the world' largest industry event focused on radio frequency identification and advanced track and trace technologies, returns to Dallas, Texas in 2007, announced event organizers CMP Technology Inc.

Industry-University Collaboration Critical to Reducing Nanotech R&D Costs (SYS-CON Media) - SEMI and SIA announced details for the 'Nano U' program to be held on October 31, 2006, immediately preceding SEMI NanoForum November 1-2, 2006 at the Marriott in San Jose, California. Designed to promote cooperation between academia and industry, the full-day session will feature professors from leading university nanotechnology centers discussing the latest research.

Business Managed Hosting Provider SingleHop Launches with Industry's Only Transparent Service Offering (SYS-CON Media) - SingleHop, Inc., a full service managed hosting provider offering solutions tailored for businesses, today launched with the industry's only fully transparent managed service offering on dedicated servers. For the first time ever business customers will be able to tailor their level of support to their needs and expertise, instead of being pigeonholed into fixed fee trouble ticket or vague tiered

Monied investors look for gems in auto industry (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - With Detroit's auto industry struggling through its darkest days in decades, some big investors are betting billions of dollars that the auto-parts sector is poised for a comeback.