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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) researchers have teamed up with north American scientists to successfully develop commercially-viable treatments for pig wasting disease ‘postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome’ (PMWS), a major scourge of the pigmeat sector.

A new report on ongoing research, says PCVD is, “the most economically important pig disease to emerge in the last 10 years”, and “severely affects the livelihood of producers through EU member states and elsewhere.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SOUTH Asian tsunami did not just destroy homes and businesses – it wrecked schools, social clubs, and sports facilities. Now a donation of 50,000 footballs has been made to encourage sporting fervour in Aceh, Indonesia, the region worst hit by the disaster.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s proposal to simplify the organisation for milk and dairy products, announced last month, is already having profound effects on the industry says Dr Joop Kleibeuker, Secretary General of the Brussels-based European Dairy Association in an exclusive interview with just-food.com.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend between Euro 200 and 230 million to Canadian dominated Ambatovy Minerals SA and Dynatec Madagascar SA to develop and operate a new large-scale open pit lateritic nickel ore mine in Madagascar.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HEALTH warnings on cigarette packaging are more effective if they are updated and regularly changed according to study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Researchers from an independent International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC) analysed data from surveys taken between 2002-2005 of 15,000 adult smokers in Britain, Canada, the US and Australia.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PICTURES of tumours and diseased mouths on cigarette packages are the most effective health warning persuading people to stop smoking, according to a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Researchers from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey analysed data from surveys taken between 2002-2005 of 15,000 adult smokers in Britain, Canada, the US and Australia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEXICAN environmental group has lodged a formal complaint with a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-linked tribunal, claiming a Mexican subsidiary of Canada’s Metallica Resources Inc has been given illegal authorisation to open a gold and silver mine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SOUTH Asian tsunami did not just destroy homes and businesses – it wrecked schools, social clubs, and sports facilities. Now a donation of 50,000 footballs has been made to encourage sporting fervour in Aceh, Indonesia, the region worst hit by the disaster.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
A WORLDWIDE standard for automotive safety glazing may only be a few months away, now that suppliers have agreed on the content and wording.

The new draft standard was finalized at a January conference in Brussels under the umbrella of CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers), with representatives from the US, Japan, Canada, Belgium, France and Germany taking part.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
HIGH crude oil prices, rapidly growing domestic demand, depleting reserves, and the absence of any really significant new oil discoveries in India has forced local oil and gas companies to exploit small and remote clusters of petroleum deposits, namely ‘marginal oil fields’.…