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CARB DIET
BY PHILIP FINE
FEELING grouchy and hungry? Tempted to snack? Your low-carb diet could be to blame, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT researchers who have looked at carbohydrates and brain chemistry. Husband-and-wife researchers Judith and Richard Wurtman have discovered that carbohydrates, despite being demonised by some weight-loss advocates, are essential in regulating mood and suppressing appetite.…
HEMP/FLAX CARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) backed research project is promoting the use of hemp and flax to make fibreboard used in car manufacture. Coordinator Helmut Zimmer of Austrian renewable raw materials specialist Funder Industries said the Hi-Fi project would generate an “added-value opportunity” for hemp and flax producers, improving fibreboard door panel production.…
HEMP/FLAX CARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) backed research project is promoting the use of hemp and flax to make fibreboard used in car manufacture. Coordinator Helmut Zimmer of Austrian renewable raw materials specialist Funder Industries said the Hi-Fi project would generate an “added-value opportunity” for hemp and flax producers, improving fibreboard door panel production.…
ECJ BUDGET
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) is to increase its budget by 50 per cent to cope with the increase in caseload and translation caused by May’s accession to the European Union (EU) of 10 new member countries from eastern and southern Europe.…
CRAZY DRINKS LAWS
BY PHILIP FINE
AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…
SAFE FOODS CORP
BY PHILIP FINE
A US manufacturer thinks an answer to controlling food pathogen outbreaks in meat production can be found in a spray using chemicals found in standard mouthwashes. With food processors finding it hard to eradicate listeria, E coli O157:H7, salmonella and campylobacter, they could now at least weaken their impact, claims Arkansas-based Safe Foods Corp.…
ANIMAL WASTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WANT to safely destroy BSE-infection in specified risk material (SRM) from abattoirs? Well exposing it to 10,000C plasma and high levels of ultra violet light should do the trick. That’s the principle behind mobile waste treatment technology being developed by the European Union-backed PLASMER project.…
LIBERALISATION FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
THE LIBERALISATION of electricity and gas supplies in the European Union (EU) was finally agreed in 2003 and will come into full effect this year for business customers and in 2007 for households and all others.…
FOREIGN POSTINGS - HEALTH
BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…
TAIWAN FEATURE
BY EDWARD PETERS
DEPENDING on who you ask, Taiwan is either a renegade province or to all intents and purposes an independent nation, albeit one that currently lacks full international recognition. To suggest that it could be a fully functioning country in its own right to anyone in Beijing – the capital of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – is tantamount to treason.…