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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission, reflecting serious divisions between European Union (EU) member states, remains split over whether or not to recommend Turkey for EU membership. The Commission has to decide by October 6 though the final say will be down to the heads of the EU governments at their summit meeting in December.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WINE production waste – or pomace – the seeds, skin and stems of crushed grapes, could be commercially developed as a natural inhibitor against several types of bacteria, a new study has claimed. Research by Turkish academics published in the UK-based Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, showed that pomace has high concentrations of antioxidants which, when mixed with methanol in concentrations ranging from 0.5% to 20%, prevented the growth of 14 types of bacteria including E-coli, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus and enterobacter aerogenes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) says the old 15 member European Union’s (EU) greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years. Sadly, proactive anti-global warming measures were not top of the agency’s reasons for the cut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TURKISH government has launched a formal investigation that could lead it to erecting temporary protective safeguard duties on imports of activated earth and clays. Turkey has told the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that imports have risen from 3,173,604 kilograms in 2001 to 3,977,236 in 2002 and 4,970,399 in 2003, (although 2000 imports were slightly higher than 2001, at 3,749,432 kg).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WINE production waste – or pomace – the seeds, skin and stems of crushed grapes, could be commercially developed as a natural inhibitor against several types of bacteria, a new study has claimed. Research by Turkish academics published in the UK-based Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, showed pomace has high concentrations of antioxidants which, mixed with methanol in concentrations ranging from 0.5% to 20%, prevented the growth of 14 types of bacteria including E-coli, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus and enterobacter aerogenes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU food contamination rapid alert system RASFF has revealed cases where carcinogenic dyes Sudan 1 and Sudan 4 have been discovered in food. Affected minced meat, spice-salt, chilli sauce and pepper, palm oil, pepper sauce, cayenne and red peppers have been removed from sale in Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDIAN government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), complaining about anti-dumping duties imposed by the European Union (EU) in 2000 on hot-rolled steel coils. India wants formal talks with Brussels, claiming discrimination over the EU’s failure to impose anti-dumping duties on the same products from Egypt, Slovakia and Turkey, despite a European Commission investigation showing they were dumping coils and damaging EU producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research network has developed a quality offset press that it claims is flexible enough to thrive in the plastic films, paper or aluminium packaging sectors. The independent EUREKA network’s ‘variable sleeve offset printing’ project had to reduce the cost of machine parts printing variable sizes “as there are no standard sizes in packaging applications”, said a project memorandum.…

Keith Nuthall
GOVERNMENTS in south-eastern Europe have agreed it is “fundamentally important to increase and intensify interregional cooperation in air transport.” Such work, which would cover airport operations and air traffic control will be written into a detailed memorandum of understanding, with a detailed and timetabled work programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DOMINANCE of fossil fuels in energy production is set to continue for the next 30 years, even growing a little, the European Environment Agency (EEA)’s latest ‘environmental signals’ report has predicted. Despite the European Union’s (EU) efforts to promote renewable energy, it is “not expected to raise its share significantly” of energy production sources, while “nuclear energy is projected to decline”, it predicted.…