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Food Industry Groups Fight State Labels (AP via Yahoo! News) - Food industry groups that want the same food warning labels to be used nationwide disputed claims Monday that such a requirement would pre-empt some 200 state laws.

US TV industry plans June ad campaign on decency (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - The U.S. television industry will launch in June an advertising blitz to help parents control the shows their children watch, the former head of the Motion Picture Association of America said on Monday.

Food Industry Groups Fight State Labels (ABC News) - Food Industry Groups Dispute Claims on Food Warning Label Legislation

Problems persist in meatpacking industry (MSNBC) - A century after Upton Sinclair published "The Jungle" in 1906, the industry that produces the meat for America still faces some of the same tensions and troubles that the muckraking author exposed.

Chip industry struggles for $10 million (The Hill) - The U.S. microchip industry and its congressional supporters are fighting for more money in the 2007 budget to avert what they are calling a crisis — a potential inability to pack more computing power into ever-tinier chips.

Dr. Peter Rost: The White House. The Drug Industry. Genocide. (HuffingtonPost) - I'll start off giving you some background. A few years ago I attended a closed meeting with consultants for Ernst & Young. They told the gathered drug executives that the industry was in trouble. Ernst & Young had added together the sales forecasts the drug industry had given to Wall Street and they told us, "if you are going to meet those numbers, you need twice as many drugs as you have in

Feds poised to off-load regulation of payday loan industry to provinces (Canadian Business) - OTTAWA (CP) - After watching payday loan outlets reproduce like rabbits across Canada with no regulation, the federal government appears poised to hand over control of the controversial industry to the provinces.

Mine industry: Rules stemming from W.Va. fatalities are too rigid (WRIC 8) - LAKEWOOD, Colo. Mine industry officials told federal regulators in Colorado today that emergency rules imposed after deadly accidents in West Virginia are too rigid and could actually put miners in more peril.

Governor asks oil and gas industry to pitch in (ABC 7 El Paso) - SANTA FE Governor Richardson has called on the oil and gas industry for a second time to pitch in 50 (m) million dollars to help consumers with high gasoline...

Beauty industry seeks miracle treatment (Guardian Unlimited) - No parent of teenage daughters needs to plough through an economic report to learn that the beauty industry is raking it in. The unguents, creams and ever more complex paraphernalia that take over the bathroom suggest a sector that is zooming along. And indeed it is.