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BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN researchers have developed what they say is a cheaper and safer way of cleaning up contaminated sites, by using tiny iron nano-particles. The particles remove chlorine atoms from polluting compounds, replacing them with hydrogen atoms, thus reducing toxicity and making them easier for natural microbes to break down.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN ONLINE database of information on how pathogenic bacteria respond to different environmental conditions in food has been established by Britain’s Institute of Food Research and the Eastern Regional Research Centre’s Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, in the United States.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE NEW York Times is reporting that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been pressuring its scientific experts to approve meat products not yet deemed safe. An unnamed senior USDA scientist said department researchers had been pressured to approve cattle from Mexico at risk of tuberculosis and, in August, following their BSE scare, boneless meat from Canadian cattle, prior to the conclusion of an in-house study.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Renewable Energy Centres Agency (EUREC) has called for more funding for green energy research, claiming that via up from investment, the industry would be able to improve efficiencies and become more profitable. The agency – a specialist non-governmental organisation – wants to research spending on renewable energy production increased 10 times.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A PUBLIC awareness campaign sponsored by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) – a Ottawa government agency – warning savers that mutual funds are not covered by the federal deposit insurance has sparked a row in the Canadian financial services sector.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ADDING Vitamin E to the diets of turkeys may reduce the instances of people contracting listeriosis, the potentially deadly bacterial foodborne illness. Scientists from the United States’ Agricultural Research Service have found that supplementing turkeys’ diets with the vitamin stimulates their immune responses, helping them clear the gut of the microorganism that causes the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched three projects, drawing Euro 43 million from its Sixth Framework Programme for research developing food safety expertise. They are ‘Safe Foods’ on risk analysis in food safety; ‘NuGO’ on creating a network of specialists in genomics, nutrition and health; and ‘Welfare Quality’ on animal welfare in food production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ASSESSMENTS of the commercial value to businesses of training programmes fail to deliver useful information and should be overhauled, an experienced learning analysis company has claimed, following collaborative research with seven major corporate employers.

ELearnity has worked with B&Q, BP, BT, Coca-Cola Enterprises, HSBC, Marks & Spencer and Vodafone to create what is says are “challenging conclusions” from its Learning Scorecard project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The US Department of Agriculture has launched a US $53-million project to map the genetic makeup of cattle in the hope it will promote human health by controlling animal disease.

The multinational Bovine Genome Sequencing Project will be carried out by universities in the US and Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have discovered ways of protecting live chickens from salmonella, campylobacter and other pathogens that cause foodborne illness. Researchers from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Arkansas have used a concept called competitive exclusion, where probiotics (beneficial live bacteria), are fed to hatchling chickens.…