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BY KEITH NUTHALL

IF the number of notifications received by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for pre-registering the use of chemicals by businesses making or importing chemicals in Europe is a gauge of success, then the new REACH control system is performing with aplomb.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

THEY may be putting off the new car purchase and the long-haul holiday this year, but Japanese consumers are finding that they cannot do without all their little luxuries.

For the 25th consecutive month, confectionery sales increased in Japan in January.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CONFECTIONERY does not just taste nice – it could calm babies, Canadian scientists have shown. Researchers at Canada’s Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital and York University studied 240 babies and found their pain reactions after injections were significantly less if they were also given some sugar to eat.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE SULTANATE of Oman has earmarked billions of dollars to build six new airports and expand its existing international airports of Muscat and Salalah.

This Arabian country of 3 million people has the least developed aviation sector of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states and this dramatic increase in capacity forms part of a diversification strategy away from energy – which accounts for an estimated 75% of government revenues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AT time when the world’s governments are trying to stem losses to complex financial frauds, another international initiative is tackling another slippery customer – illegal fishing. Keith Nuthall reports.

FAR from the prying eyes of police and customs officers, the breaking of international and national fishing laws and regulations happens every day.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

Although today’s nuclear technology is used primarily to produce electricity, meeting about 14.2% of the world’s demand, the birth of nuclear power, like many technologies, was not intended for civilian use. Rather, it was used to harness a militaristic advantage at the onset of the Second World War.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s internal market committee has voted for a complete ban on selling, importing and exporting seal furs within the EU, rejecting compromise proposals for a labelling regime. "In practice, seal products such as bags, hats, boots and gloves used by motorcyclists, skiers and boxers would be outlawed," said a committee communiqué.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE PRINCIPLE of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is of course well established amongst energy suppliers: polluting industries, such as coal, would be able to continue to burn fossil fuels, but carbon dioxide, rather than being expelled into the atmosphere, would be harvested in the energy production cycle and securely locked away.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SCOTCH Whisky Association (SWA) is mulling a fresh appeal against the trademarking of Canadian single malt whisky Glen Breton, after Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal ruled that Nova Scotia-based distillery Glenora could use this brand name. The SWA argues the word ‘Glen’ can mislead consumers into thinking the whisky is from Scotland, rather than Cape Breton, eastern Canada, a region heavily populated by Scots from the Nineteenth Century’s Highland Clearances.…