TRAC
is a new global online due diligence platform for supply and marketing
chain compliance that captures, assesses and shares baseline due
diligence information on organizations and individuals and issues
universal ID numbers to approved applicants. It is designed to
streamline compliance, procurement and contracting operations while
ensuring that basic due diligence is met. TRAC is entirely free for
companies to access – whether or not they are TRACE member companies.
To learn more about TRAC, view our 90 second video, or visit www.tracnumber.com.
TRACE International, Inc. is a non-profit membership association that
pools resources to provide practical and cost-effective anti-bribery
compliance solutions for multinational companies and their commercial
intermediaries (sales agents and representatives, consultants,
distributors, suppliers, etc.).
TRACE provides several core services and products, including: due
diligence reports on commercial intermediaries; model compliance
policies; an online Resource Center with foreign local law summaries,
including guidelines on gifts and hospitality; in-person and online
anti-bribery training; and research on corporate best practices.
For multinational companies, TRACE provides a practical and
cost-effective alternative to increasingly expensive and time-consuming
corporate compliance. For commercial intermediaries, TRACE offers a
marketing advantage by creating a bridge between them and companies
doing business internationally.
Companies cannot afford to ignore the realities of doing business in
today's increasingly complex compliance environment. Over the past 15
years, an increasing number of countries have enacted anti-bribery laws
to implement international anti-corruption conventions criminalizing the
bribery of foreign public officials. The new laws typically state that a
business will be liable for the corrupt acts and/or the improper
payments made by an intermediary if management "knew or should have
known" that a particular intermediary was likely to make an
inappropriate payment. Thus, companies are required to conduct
sufficient due diligence on prospective intermediaries to ensure that
they are committed to transparent business practices regardless of
business pressure, local law or custom. Anti-bribery laws, however, are
deliberately vague on the issue of "sufficient due diligence."
TRACE was founded to achieve economies of scale and set a common
standard for two shared elements of anti-bribery compliance: due
diligence reviews and anti-bribery training for business intermediaries
and company employees based around the world.
TRACE is a 501(c)(6) non-profit membership association, organized under
the laws of the District of Columbia and, as such, does not pay tax on
its net revenue. TRACE was founded in 2001.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit October 31 – November 2, 2012
2012 Science of Eliminating Health
Disparities Summit
October 31 – November 2,
2012
Gaylord Hotel and
Convention Center
National Harbor, MD
The 2012
Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit promises to be a stimulating
learning experience, and a chance to develop new partnerships with others
committed to the quest to eliminate health disparities. It will bring
together national and international leaders in the field of health disparities
representing multiple disciplines and sectors to share cutting-edge science,
policy, practice, and various results-oriented approaches to address health
disparities.
Come and learn about the progress that communities across
the United States and around the world are making to improve the health of
underserved populations, the challenges they face, and opportunities to foster
collaborative alliances to build a healthier global society.
Sessions are
now open for registration http://www.nimhd.nih.gov/summit_site/programAgenda.html
To register
for the sessions, you must first complete the general registration http://citfm.cit.nih.gov/registration/register.php
and use the password you to receive to access the sessions registration page.
Hotel
Reservations Deadline:
Monday, October 1, 2012
If you have
questions, please contact 2012summit@mail.nih.gov
or call 240-395-0549.
Friday, September 21, 2012
3 Ways to Make Your Vote Count in a Money-Soaked Election
by Fran Korten
posted Sep 19, 2012
Recently, a respected friend sent me an outraged email. His subject line:
"BOYCOTT VOTING!" He was at wit's end over the vast sums of money that wealthy
individuals and corporations are pouring into our elections: $400 million from
the Koch Brothers; $100 million from Sheldon Adelson. If big money is going to
buy the election, he said, then he will “withdraw his consent” by not
voting.I, too, am apoplectic at the money flooding our elections. It speaks of a level of corruption that undermines my hopes for solving the big problems of our time. That’s why I’m promoting the passage of a constitutional amendment to curtail unlimited election spending.
But is boycotting the vote the right response? Here’s how I see it: the big money doesn’t buy votes. It mostly buys television ads to influence our votes or discourage us from voting at all. So why would I fall into the trap of doing what the big money wants? As I wrote to my friend, after the election, no one will notice your boycott. They will only notice who won. Think of your vote as an act of protest and vote for candidates who vow to change the system. Here's what you can do:
1. Vote the Whole Ballot
Vote the whole ballot. When we reach the bottom of the ballot, many of us
find a bunch of names and initiatives we don’t know
and skip them. Judicial
positions are notorious for low vote tallies. So a few voters can determine who
wins positions that can have
How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Election a huge impact on our lives. I prepare by reading
the
It won’t be easy to protect our votes from being voter pamphlet with care, especially watching for partisan
It won’t be easy to protect our votes from being voter pamphlet with care, especially watching for partisan
sidelined and stolen this year, but here
are a buzzwords. Then I
check with friends for additional
few simple things we can do. information. I also sign up for emails from
organizations that
recommend candidates who match my values.
So when I go to vote, I make my choices with confidence.
2. Contribute to Campaigns ...
Another conundrum in this money-soaked election season is whether to give money to candidates. Does our measly $25, $50, or even $500 mean anything when the 1 percent can so far outspend us? My husband is pretty cynical about political contributions. But do we want to force candidates to get their funds only from the wealthy? One candidate told me, “I need to raise at least one-fifth of what my deep-pocketed opponent raises. Otherwise, I’m just not a player.” I like this candidate. I think she has smarts and integrity. She wants to overturn Citizens United and other laws that make campaigns so expensive. So I (yes, together with my husband) made a contribution to her campaign, as well as to several other candidates we believe in.3. ... But Not Just Money
Fortunately, money is not the only way to influence an election. Giving time can be even more valuable. One respectful conversation with a potential voter can reverse the effects of thousands of dollars of ads. Going door to door, phoning, helping people get registered and to the polls can all make a difference. Your favored candidates may be outspent, but if they out-organize, they may be able to prevail. Organizing, of course, means getting people like you and me to volunteer.It’s easy to be discouraged about a political system that seems so out of reach. I take heart from history. In the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, income inequality was similar to today’s. There was widespread political corruption. Then people rose up and ushered in the Progressive Era. They voted in candidates who instituted the estate tax and progressive income taxes, changed election laws, and made many other reforms.
By the 1950s through the 1970s we had an expanding middle class and a fairer election system. We can make those changes again. But only if we get engaged and informed, and vote.
Fran Korten wrote this article for It's Your Body, the Fall 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Fran is publisher of YES
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/its-your-body/is-your-vote-for-sale?utm_source=wkly20120921&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mrKorten
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Food Safety: Recall of Fresh-Cut Mango Products
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Safety
Recall -- Firm Press Release
FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls
and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the
media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or
the company.
Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc, Recalls Limited Quantity of Fresh-Cut Mango Products Due to Possible Health Risk – This Recall is Associated with FoodSource's recall of Mangoes Sourced from Agricola Daniella In Mexico
ContactConsumer:
800-659-6500
or email Del Monte Fresh at
Contact-US-Executive-Office@freshdelmonte.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September
20, 2012 - In cooperation with the FDA's warning to not consume mangoes from
Agricola Daniella in Mexico, Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc, is initiating a
voluntary recall of 1,600 bowls of fresh-cut mangoes distributed to retail
outlets due to the potential risk that the mangoes may contain Salmonella.
Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections
in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune
systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever,
diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare
circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into
the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections
(i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis. This recall is
associated with FoodSource's (Edinburg, TX) recall of mangoes sourced from
Agricola Daniella in Mexico.
Product was distributed between September 8-12, 2012
by retailers in the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Oregon, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Washington. Product is packaged in clear plastic 32 oz
bowls with a Del Monte® label on the top. The affected product will have printed
Best By date 9/18/12 and lot code 05252101 below, and Best By date 9/22/12 and
lot code 03256100 below. These dates and codes are clearly printed on the top
label of each individual package. The UPC is 7-62357-07532-1.
There have been no reported
illnesses attributed to the items listed in this recall. Del Monte Fresh Produce
N.A., Inc has notified the retailers who have received the recalled product and
directed them to remove it from their store shelves. Consumers who purchased
affected products with the listed Best By dates and lot codes should not consume
them and should destroy or discard them. Consumers with questions may contact
the company’s consumer hotline at 1-800-659-6500 or email Del Monte Fresh at Contact-US-Executive-Office@freshdelmonte.com
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