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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR American golf clothing chain has failed to secure European Union (EU)-wide trademark rights to its name, because European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges found it insufficiently distinctive. Golf USA Inc franchises more than 100 golf clothing and equipment stores in 32 US states and 11 other countries: Belgium, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, South Korea, Mexico, Spain and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) Joint Research Centre (JRC) is opening three new reference laboratories this month (March 17) to monitor reliable testing of contaminated food items and animal feed. The new laboratories, at Geel, in Belgium, will test for heavy metals, mycotoxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), all key food health concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has laid formal charges against European flat glass suppliers – including Britain’s Pilkington – alleging the existence of a European Union (EU) cartel controlling the sale of this key construction material. Brussels has not named companies receiving formal ‘statements of objections’, however, Pilkington has admitted these cover “alleged violations of competition rules by a number of glass manufacturers in the European building products glass sector, including Pilkington.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) Joint Research Centre (JRC) opened three new reference laboratories last month (March 17) to monitor reliable testing of contaminated food items, a key part of its work. The new laboratories, at Geel, in Belgium, will test for heavy metals, mycotoxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), all key food health concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ABILITY of French tobacco retailers prospering from cross-border shopping to undercut their British competitors could be helped by a European Commission bid to end France’s minimum retail price system. Brussels is taking the French government to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over the issue, claiming that the system illegally “distorts competition”, breaking European Union (EU) freedom of trade laws.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS from Ghent University in Belgium have developed a non-antibiotic dietary supplement that protects farmed shrimp against bacterial infection – a finding that could help end antibiotic use in fish farming.

The study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Microbiolology said brine shrimp that were fed a compound called a polymer polyhydroxybutyrate – or PHB – were prevented from becoming infected with the bacteria vibrio campbellii an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that causes significant losses in the fish farming sector as an outbreak cannot be treated with antibiotics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has unveiled further data underlining the risk to human health posed by widespread contamination of broiler chicken flocks across Europe with the pathogen salmonella. In its latest figures, which back earlier alarming data about salmonella contamination within egg production systems, EFSA said that in 2005-6, almost a quarter – 23.7% – of EU broiler (meat) flocks were contaminated with salmonella.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS from Ghent University in Belgium have developed a non-antibiotic dietary supplement that protects farmed shrimp against bacterial infection – a finding that could help end antibiotic use in seafood production.

The study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Microbiolology said brine shrimp fed a polymer called polyhydroxybutyrate – or PHB – were prevented from becoming infected with the bacteria vibrio campbellii an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that causes significant losses in the farmed seafood sector as an outbreak cannot be treated with antibiotics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) summit has agreed a 10% binding minimum target for all 27 member states regarding the share of biofuels in overall EU transport petrol and diesel consumption by 2020. The agreement, which followed weeks of political manoeuvreing, has however been qualified in that biofuels must be “introduced in a cost-efficient way”.…

BY MARK ROWE
FOLLOWING the ‘big bang’ of European Union (EU) expansion in May 2004, when 10 countries acceded to the EU, followed by Romania and Bulgaria this year, analysts were curious to see how those new members with well-regarded drinks industries would cope in the new pan-EU family.…