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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened the UK government with legal action at the European Court of Justice over alleged breaches of the European Union (EU) urban waste water treatment directive. Brussels claims that there are legally "insufficient collection and treatment facilities" for London, Torbay and Whitburn, in England, and Kilbarchan, in Scotland.…

BY MARK ROWE

IF proof were needed that nanotechnology is more than an esoteric scientific discipline then it surely comes with the news that nanotech is about to come to a fast-food restaurant near you. Last month (March), OilFresh, a California-based company, commercially launched a nanotechnology-based frying oil in the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MASS production of a vaccine to fight the H5N1 bird flu strain in humans could begin within a year, after pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline launched clinical trials in Germany and Belgium.

The company is testing two vaccines: the first would be targeted at fighting a pandemic after an outbreak; the second aimed at advance inoculations.…

BY MARK ROWE

NANOTECHNOLOGY is set to dramatically enhance the packaging process across a range of industries in the next few years. Major areas of development include enhancing the performance of packaging materials, prolonging shelf life, antimicrobial packaging and interactive packaging.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission conference designed to ease the damage caused by bankruptcy has heard how most European Union (EU) countries are already reforming their insolvency laws. Speaking at a Commission conference on ‘Insolvency and Fresh Start’ in Brussels, 120 legal experts from 24 countries were told last year 140,000 corporate insolvencies in the old 15-member EU, risked 1.5 million jobs.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The European Commission is to provide euros 25.5 million – half the total cost – of 25 programmes to promote agricultural products in 14 EU countries. These are meant essentially as information/publicity projects, highlighting quality, food safety, regional specialities, organic produce and animal welfare as well as underwriting participation in fairs and agricultural shows.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCOTTISH meat producers are receiving grants from the European Commission to sell within the European Union. Over three years, Brussels will spend Euro 1.4 million on Quality Meat Scotland programmes. It will also spend Euro 145,093 on one year’s Livestock Meat Commission of Northern Ireland marketing schemes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is holding a legislative bonfire, releasing details of proposed fishing measures it will abandon under a drive by its current regime to simplify European Union (EU) laws and lessen their impact on industry. Most of the proposals earmarked for the shredder have encountered political opposition from the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, making it difficult for the Commission to get them passed into law.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BURGERS and pork pies could become healthier by adding a tasteless but fibre-rich extract from seaweed, scientists from the University of Newcastle have claimed. Their research has examined a brown seaweed Lessonia and Laminaria, found in east Asia, south America, Norway and Scotland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MARINE litter clean-up campaign involving Scottish fishermen has received a global United Nations award. Glasgow PR firm Weber Shandwick picked up the 2005 UN Grand Award for outstanding achievement in public relations for its Save the North Sea campaign.…