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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has suggested varying animal welfare rules for live exports according to the climate to which livestock are sent. It has called for research “to develop realistic ventilation models” and meanwhile for existing regulations to allow more flexibility on misting in summer for cooling, and heating incoming air during winter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a policy paper recommending future European Union (EU) actions to deter smoking, which would ramp up Europe’s already tough raft of anti-tobacco rules and guidelines. ‘Tobacco or Health in the European Union’ proposes that national governments increase spending on anti-tobacco actions by between Euro 1 and 3 per citizen, with national tobacco control agencies being established to coordinate such programmes.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
COMPANIES whose employees endure long stressful commutes to work are at a greater risk of losing their workers due to heart attacks according to German research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study said people are three times more likely to suffer a heart attack within an hour of driving a car or bicycle in a traffic jam than if they would be in activities away from traffic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research consortium has announced a breakthrough in cutting the weight of cars, by producing and testing a full-scale carbon fibre floorpan, sills, roof, pillars and side panels. The result, it claims are safe and fast cars, not only using smaller engines and so emitting less pollution than metal models, but would be popular and mass produced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) chemical control package REACH that has been causing metal companies serious concern is starting to move steadily towards the Brussels statute book, with the European Parliament preparing to start formal debates next month. Its responsible committee on the environment, public health and food safety stages its next meeting on November 23 and 24, following a session of the industry, research and energy committee, which has the right to propose its own amendments.…

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.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has followed up the proposals of the European Union’s (EU) high-level group on dealing with the end of textile trade quotas in the New Year, proposing a slush fund to cope with the potential fall-out. It has proposed earmarking 1% EU national development (‘structural’) funds and 3% of regional competitiveness grants for areas with large textile industries.…

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 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 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.…