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BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE is being applied to the European Union’s national governments to support both an increase in biofuel combustion and biomass energy production. A European Parliament’s industry committee report has called for EU Member States to ensure bio-combustibles, such as sunflower and colza fuels, supply two per cent of the fuel market by 2006 and 5.75 per cent by 2010.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration has told three online pharmacies – Ashland Drugs, Mississippi, Bird’s Hill Pharmacy, Massachusetts, and the Compounding Pharmacy, Illinois – to stop selling nicotine impregnated lollipops via the Internet. The FDA said it acted because the nicotine sweets are dispensed without a doctor’s prescription, contain a non-approved form of nicotine called salicylate, and because the products could be accidentally used by children.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted a ban on Chinese imports of certain fish, (including whole farmed and wild fish, gutted and de-headed fish and fish fillets of Alaska pollack, cod, redfish farmed fish and crustaceans), following tests by the EU Food and Veterinary Office.…

KEITH NUTHALL
WATER companies may be able to help the European Union and its Member States improve standards in the sector within developing countries, as part of an initiative to be launched by Brussels at the oncoming World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, this August and September.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMS growing both GM and traditional crops will find it extremely difficult to guarantee that non-GM varieties are not so contaminated with genetically modified material, they cannot be sold as standard food, a European Commission report has claimed.…

BY MARK ROWE
DISPUTES over who owns an idea and the right to stop others from stealing it probably date back to the cavemen who invented the wheel. It was most likely resolved by the application of a large club to the head.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESEARCH project developing ways of feeding spaceship food plants with the recycled faeces of Mars-bound astronauts could have important spin-off applications for the disposal of municipal waste water.

The European Space Agency funded MELISSA (micro-ecological life support alternative) project is examining how to re-use the maximum amount of waste generated by spacemen on future long trips to the red planet.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted a ban on the imports of certain fish, (including farmed fish), and fish products from China following the presentation of new information by the Chinese authorities and the favourable results of tests carried out by the EU Food and Veterinary Office.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A SURVEY conducted by the Food and Veterinary Office of the European Commission on pesticide residues has found that maximum safety limits were exceeded in 4.5 per cent of 45,000 samples of fruit, vegetable and cereals analysed in the year 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MISSPELT word ‘lite’ is not sufficiently descriptive to be a European Union trademark for food products, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It rejected an appeal by German company Rewe Zentral AG against a refusal by the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs), to register ‘lite’ a ‘Community trademark.’…