One key topic: Whether new rules would cover just independent agents, who work for themselves and sell products from two or more insurers, or so-called "captive" agents, such as the typical State Farm agent, who sell products of just one insurer.

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Last month, the Canadian government moved to list triclosan an antibacterial ingredient commonly found in toothpaste as a toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, which could result in an outright ban on the antibacterial agent in personal care products, affecting U.S. companies that sell such products north of the border.

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Yucho wants to act as a sales agent for third-party products when portable pensions are introduced later this year.

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They would collect environmental samples such as soil, rubble or vegetation that may have been in contact with the chemical warfare agent and may still contain characteristic degradation products or even traces of it.

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Also, the analysis of samples is a powerful tool to identify any agent that may be present, even if in small concentrations, or of characteristic degradation products that would demonstrate its past presence.

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Unlike a broker or an agent, he is not working solely for a commission and must provide the most prudent advice or products to you.

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Whereas American investors willingly send their money to a fund manager they know only from magazine advertisements, and Britons usually buy from independent financial advisers who sell many different fund managers' products, continental Europeans tend to walk to their bank branch and no further, unless an insurance agent gets to them first.

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