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More than 300 photos from the CI Congress are now available on Flickr. You can view the photos at www.flickr.com/groups/cicongress2007 and, if you have a Flickr account, you can download the photos, become a member of the CI World Congress 2007 group and invite others to join. You can also post your own photos to [...]

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Want to read up on CI events in the news? Pharmaceutical marketing was the big topic of the day. Check out the following links to today’s headlines around the world:

Name and shame ‘bribed’ doctors – Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
Drug firms try to bribe doctors with cars – Guardian Unlimited, UK
Drug companies attacked over gifts for [...]

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You can view speaker presentations, video interviews with delegates and speakers and congress photos online at the following places. We will be uploading speaker papers where there was no presentation as soon as we can get copies. We hope to upload audio files of all sessions in the near future. In the next few days [...]

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Coco-cola, Kellogg’s, and Mattel top the list of international brands guilty of abusing consumer rights, with Takeda Pharmaceuticals winning the overall prize for taking advantage of poor US regulation and advertising sleeping pills to children, despite health warnings about paediatric use.

The International Bad Products Awards has made news worldwide. Here are just some of [...]

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Richard Lloyd raised the question of where to hold the next CI World Congress.
We’ve got reports on some of Monday’s fringe events. Georgina has given us the first of two accounts of the day-long campaigning event on advocacy for consumers’ intellectual property rights and Candice has given her impressions of the food marketing fringe event. [...]

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The 18th Consumers International World Congress is already making headlines in Australia and overseas. Junk food marketing was the big story of the day:

Consumer groups push for tighter junk food restrictions – ABC
Bad products to be named and shamed – The Age
Push to ban soft drink ads for young – SMH
Irresponsible companies in firing line [...]

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