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FISH SUBSIDIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed Euro 15 million a year in subsidies are made to the fishing industries of the Azores and Madeira, (part of Portugal), Spain’s Canary Islands and the French departments of Guyana and Reunion. Brussels says they need compensation because they are part of the EU but far from European markets.…
CASCADE RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investing Euro 14 million to create a ‘CASCADE’ network of excellence investigating the presence and effect of harmful chemicals in common foodstuffs. It will include more than 20 universities, research institutes and businesses.…
JAPAN APPLES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN has appealed against a WTO ruling that ruled its quarantine measures on imported apples from the USA could not be justified on health grounds under the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.…
EU - AUSTRALIA: WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has demanded a disputes panel be established at the WTO to hear its complaint that Australian quarantine rules against food products are so tough, they break world trade laws. Brussels says the import of tomatoes, fresh citrus fruit, apples, peaches, nectarines, cucumbers, lettuce, carrots, apricots, edible eggs and egg products, uncooked pigmeat and uncooked poultry meat is unfairly restricted.…
CZECH MDF
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Euro 24.5 million to help wood panel company Kronospan to build a standard furniture grade MDF plant in the Czech Republic. The bank wants to consolidate the Czech wood-processing sector, which it says has “traditionally been unproductive.”…
FRESCO GLUE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT was a case of nature outdoing the toughest solvents. Art restorers have used bacteria to eat through glue that has for 50 years covered a medieval Italian fresco, following a botched post-war restoration attempt. Bombs had damaged the ‘Conversion and Battle of Saint Efisio’ by Spinello Aretino in the Camposanto cemetery, Pisa, and restorers unwisely attempted to pull the frescos from the wall intact using organic glue and canvases.…
SMOKING BANS - USA
BY PHILIP FINE
FROM Gaudeloupe, Arizona, to Duxbury, Massachusetts, and from Helena, Montana, to Loganville, Georgia, US smoking bans have increasingly been finding a small-town
following ; 78 towns and cities in the United States have now enacted smoking bans in all workplaces and restaurants within their municipalities.…
TELEMARKETING REGISTRY
BY PHILIP FINE
UNEXPECTEDLY large numbers of American households have signed onto an official USA registry of consumers unwilling to accept calls from telephone marketers. The Federal Trade Commission now has a list of over 23 million phone numbers registered and expects it to reach 60 million.…
CRUISE LINE BOOK
BY PHILIP FINE
A NEW book has taken cruise lines to task on their labour, environmental and
commercial practices. Cruise Ship Blues by Newfoundland, Canada, writer Ross A Klein finds many employees in the industry working 16-17 hours a day, 7 days a
week for 10-12 months straight.…
WASTE TO OIL
BY PHILIP FINE
A US company that developed a method to turn waste into low-priced usable fuel plans to begin turning out 500 barrels of oil a day next month. Changing World Technologies (CWT) has built its newest plant on the site of Conagra Foods Butterball turkey factory in Missouri.…