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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has taken an important step towards giving EU water legislation more teeth, by moving against Belgium’s system of “tacit approvals” of pollution. Belgian law allows companies to assume that they have a right to pollute if they make an application to regulators and then receive no reply.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW laboratory tasked with fostering innovative solutions for nuclear waste management has been inaugurated at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

Its Institute for Transuranium Elements, in Karlsruhe, Germany, has opened a Euro 10 million Minor Actinide Laboratory, which will manufacture and characterize the most suitable materials for the transmutation of long-lived toxic elements created by the nuclear industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’s Joint Research Centre has developed post-slaughter tests for the gender of beef meat. With male meat supposedly of a higher quality exports, imports carry a subsidy difference of Euro 130/kg depending on sex, making accurate designation crucial for producers and processors.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WOMEN who smoke as teenagers have a 70 per cent greater risk of developing breast cancer than their non-smoking peers, claims a study by the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Canada. Research showed that women who started smoking within five years of starting menstruation were significantly more likely to develop breast cancer before reaching 50 than non-smokers.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WITH genetically engineered cows, goats and pigs being developed for pharmaceutical purposes other than providing us with filet mignon, chèvre cheese and strips of bacon, one serious question left begging is whether the pharmaceuticals industry should start to think more about adjusting their operations so that they can incorporate farmers and meat and dairy producers?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW DNA test has been developed which can detect tuberculosis in two to three hours; Professor Mike Barer from Leicester University used the results from the decoding of the mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium genome to look for markers that could be used to detect the germ.…

BY MATTHEW WELLS
A NEW survey of business leaders in the United States carried out by the security professionals’ organisation ASIS International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the US Chamber of Commerce has indicated that around US$59 billion dollars-worth of intellectual property and information were stolen in America over the year to last June.…

BY MATT WELLS, in New York
A NEW survey of business leaders in the United States carried out by the security professionals’ organisation ASIS International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the US Chamber of Commerce has indicated that around US$59 billion dollars-worth of intellectual property and information were stolen in America over the year to last June.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN researchers have developed a package of techniques that could allow confectionary companies to market organic cashew nut bars. Scientists at the Kerala Agriculture University’s Cashew Research Station have identified high density planting systems using natural oil insect repellants, secondary crops between trees which drive out weeds, and carnivorous insects to attack other pests.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE EUROPEAN Commission is promoting new hi-tech vehicle accident reduction inventions in a new report Research on Integrated Safety Systems for Improving Road Safety in Europe. It details the activities of its joint group in high-tech accident prevention, including industry and public sector members, who are trying to fulfill the European Union’s goal of reducing road fatalities by 50 per cent by the year 2010.…