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BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH ministers from seven European Union (EU) countries have agreed to boost research cooperation to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Meeting in Paris, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands agreed to jointly organise studies and clinical trials to speed up discoveries, avoiding duplicate testing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has suggested varying animal welfare rules for the live export trade according to the climate of a country, to which livestock are sent. Its scientific panel on animal health and welfare has called for detailed practical research on microclimates in lorries “to develop realistic ventilation models for the different animal species in different climatic zones”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENETICALLY modified (GM) grass pollen has been blown up to 21 kilometres before pollinating other grasses, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found. This contamination zone is much wider than previously measured. The research focused on an experimental herbicide-resistant variety of GM creeping bentgrass, used on golf greens.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL
USA retail food product sizes are outstripping weights declared on their labels by as much as 72%, according to a new study published by the American Dietetic Association.

Researchers from the US Agricultural Research Service (ARS) found that out of 99 food items checked, just 37 had contents weighing what was declared on their labels, 15 were underweight, and 47 products were oversized.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS from the USA’s Agricultural Research Service are trying to improve the taste of reconstituted orange juice in order to match the flavour of freshly squeezed orange juice that most consumers prefer.

To do this, researchers had to isolate 40 “flavour aroma compounds” that make freshly squeezed OJ taste the way it does.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has bitten the bullet and proposed a comprehensive regulation controlling the production, sale and use of children’s medicines in the European Union (EU) following many months of consultations. Brussels wants to ensure special care is taken to ensure the safety and effectiveness of paediatric medicines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Union (EU) Commissioner for research Janez Potocnik has declared he would be prepared to build an ITER-scale fusion reactor at Cadarache, France, if there is no international agreement on where to build the prototype. In answers to a European Parliament questionnaire, he said the EU “could consider launching the construction of the ITER at Cadarache…with those of its partners willing to be involved”, although only at the “very last resort”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PATIENTS finishing a course of anti-depressants are not at an increased risk of suicide according to a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which examined concerns they can fall into dangerous pits of despair.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Union (EU) Commissioner for research Janez Potocnik has declared he would be prepared to build an ITER-scale fusion reactor at Cadarache, France, if there is no international agreement on where to build the prototype. In answers to a European Parliament questionnaire, he said the EU “could consider launching the construction of the ITER at Cadarache…with those of its partners willing to be involved”, although only at the “very last resort”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A new Canadian study suggests that people suffering traumatic experiences during childhood or adolescence, such as parents’ divorce or physical abuse, are significantly more likely than others to develop arthritis later in life.

According to the research, published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, there is a 27 per cent greater chance of such people developing arthritis.…