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Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released a global catalogue of ideal safety signs for accident prevention, fire protection and emergency evacuation, because of concerns that worldwide, confusion sparked by existing signs causes death and injuries. Its move follows the release in the UK of a survey by leading health and safety equipment supplier Seton, that 87 per cent of British office-based professionals cannot identify electrical warning signs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have developed technology that could help fight a major garden industry pest, detecting and identifying the presence of black vine weevils through the computerised interpretation of their bodily vibrations. James R. Fisher, entomologist from the USA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), has developed a wand-like microphone that can be inserted onto a large nail placed at the root in nursery pots.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN pharmaceutical companies Hoffmann-La Roche, BASF and Rhône-Poulenc are being supported by the International Chamber of Commerce in a US Supreme Court case that could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with a negligible USA impact.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has thrown down the gauntlet over the agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to US authorities, voting to challenge the deal at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-funded research consortium is producing biodegradable plastics from whey separated from milk curd during cheese-making. WHEYPOL is synthesising the polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) generated from whey. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5316860&CFID=83049&CFTOKEN=71957927…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported an outbreak of the potentially disastrous white spot disease on an American shrimp farm in the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i (SPELLING CORRECT). Already, said the OIE, there have been 6.8 million cases in this outbreak, involving 5.6 million deaths and 1.2 million shrimps being destroyed, with 16 million being susceptible.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has unveiled a three-member panel charged with investigating allegations of substantial corruption within its now defunct Oil for Food Programme, under which Iraq’s deposed Baathist regime sold limited supplies of crude, supposedly to fund humanitarian supplies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA government has listed the beluga sturgeon as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. This decision brings US requirements in line the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and could lead to restrictions or even a ban on imports of its caviar, a real threat given the US imports 80 per cent of world production.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Textile and Clothing Bureau (ITCB) council of representatives has attacked the European Union for unilaterally widening the scope of its import quota restrictions to the 10 southern and eastern Europe countries joining the EU this weekend. The textile-exporting bloc claimed such a unilateral extension of quotas had already been ruled illegal by the World Trade Organisation, with the ITCB noting this infringement came months before the abolition of all such quotas.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
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des Batiments Publics of Luxembourg and is being implemented under the supervision of the Public Works Ministry of Luxembourg, in collaboration with the Court of Justice.…