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BY ALAN OSBORN
WHAT a complex and mysterious thing wheat is! Scientists tell us that modern wheat is a hexaploid, which means that the long-distant ancestors of wheat “hybridised in a way that combined three copies of the original genome to produce a genome with over 150,000 genes.”…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Toronto

A PROCESS that can convert old chip oil and other food waste into inexpensive bio-diesel will soon be available to food and catering companies. Canada’s Biox Corp. says its first bolt-on bio-fuel processing plant should open this summer in Oakville, Ontario.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD researchers will be able to use the world’s largest library of genetic information about wheat, created by the combination of data by Britain’s John Innes centre and the National Institute for Agronomical Research, France.…

BY Alan Osborn
The European Food Safety Authority has begun active operations following appointments to its scientific committee and to the eight specialist panels. Mr Geoffrey Podger, executive director of EFSA and former head of Britain’s food safety agency, said EFSA had recruited the best available scientists working on the most important food safety issues “so that significant improvements can be made to the safety of food in the European Union – that process begins now.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWEDEN has the highest European Union unit labour costs in the combined tobacco, food and drinks industries, according to a report from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency; its average for the latest available comparable figures (year 2000) was Euro 38,000.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US government has announced increased funding to help its state food laboratories deal with possible terrorist attacks directly or indirectly involving food poisoning. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are expanding the National Laboratory Response Network and the Food Emergency Response Network.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Scientific Steering Committee – offering the European Commission expert food safety advice – has held its final meeting, to be superseded by the European Food Safety Authority. The committee advised there should be no great concern about BSE cases in Britain after the imposition of the reinforced feed ban in 1996.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVEN the most ill-informed layman knows that modern farming is often a technically advanced and scientific business, but the extent to which new technologies are being used to maximise production is not so-widely known, even within the industry itself.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority wants a specialist to fill a new position of deputy executive director – head of science. Meanwhile, the agency has chosen experts to fill its scientific committee and panels; 1,050 scientists had applied for membership.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWEDEN has the highest European Union unit labour costs in the combined tobacco, food and drinks industries, according to a report from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency; its average for the latest available comparable figures (year 2000) was Euro 38,000.…