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BACTERIA PROJECT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has identified four strains of lactobacilli that could help treat intestinal inflammations and infections. The DEPROHEALTH scheme has received Euro1.4 million in Brussels money; its aim is to develop oral probiotic bacteria vaccines to counter conditions such as rotavirus, which causes infant diarrhoea, and Chrohn’s disease.…
EIB LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending Euro 300 million to CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to finance the final phase of construction of its new Large Hadron Collider. The loan will also help to set up instrumentation to record and analyse the facility’s high-energy particle collisions.…
BREAST CANCER
BY PHILIP FINE
CONTRARY to popular belief, a recent American study found no positive association between risk of breast cancer and meat consumption. The Nurses’ Health Study followed 88,647 women for 18 years. Investigators found no evidence that a diet high in animal protein was associated with risk of breast cancer.…
RESEARCH PROPOSALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST formal call for proposals under the European Union’s Euro 16.2 billion Sixth Framework Programme for research have been issued; they include a Euro 167 million budget for studies into food quality and safety, especially on the food chain, disease epidemiology, traceability and animal feed.…
RESEARCH PROPOSALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST formal call for proposals under the European Union’s Euro 16.2 billion Sixth Framework Programme for research have been issued; they include a Euro 167 million budget for studies into food quality and safety. *Full details:
http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=16…
RUSSIA FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
IF you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn’t just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open.
Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.…
FISH FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg
Introduction
Europe
Cuts to EU catch quotas
New sources of fish
Affect on fish producers
Wild alternatives to cod
Farmed cod
North America
USA – Healthier local stocks
USA – Demand up
USA – Fish imports
Canada – Farmed fish exports
Canada – GM issues
Australasia
Australia – New wild sources
Australia – Aquaculture
Australia – Wild fish innovation
Australia and New Zealand – sustainability
South Africa – Export increase and conservation
Japan – Local and regional supply
Japan – Maintaining quality
Japan – Non-Asian sources
Introduction
ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…
ASTURIAS MINE AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment by northern Spain’s Principality of Asturias regional government of Euro 3 million to local private coal mining companies. The money will improve working safety in mines, (via research and development and worker training), and protect the environment, (through waste management and pollution clean-ups).…
VOC EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed an overhaul of European Union legislation regulating the use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in decorative paints, varnishes and car refinishing lines, insisting on tighter and more sophisticated limits for emissions of pollutants from these products.…
OECD ROAD ACCIDENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALE-MENOPAUSE ridden men buying powerful motorcycles that they cannot ride properly is one of two reasons for a levelling off in a 10-year decline in road accidents in rich countries, an OECD report claims. The other problem is an increase in illicit drug use by drivers.…