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BY ANDREW CAVE

BIOFUELS have generated earnest debate ever since German inventor Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil back in 1894, but suddenly there is a biofuels boom that’s moving global markets.
World economies are in a race to find alternatives to fossil fuels and turning crops such as wheat and corn into ethanol or oilseed rape, soya, or palm oil into biodiesel is having an impact on farmers, manufacturer and industrial producers worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

The paint and coatings sector in Australia appears to be holding steady. According to business analysts IBISWorld, the total manufacture of paint in 2006-7 was 0.2 billion litres, which registers no change from the previous year.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

WITHOUT fanfare, the European Union (EU) regulation on nutrition and health claims came into effect at the start of this month (July), beginning an significant shake-up of the EU food sector, with will take 15 years to complete.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

IT is self-evident that the printing industry is all about ink. And many inks are made with artificial chemicals. As a result, the sector and its ink suppliers have to take care they comply with the European Union’s (EU) new chemical control system REACH, which formally came into force on June 1.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

THE DEVELOPMENT of biofuels and their impact on food crops has generated debate since Germany’s Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil in 1894.
However, now a biofuels boom is moving global markets and one result is commodity crop price inflation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DRAFT standard being developed by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) could harmonise traditional sizing practices within the European clothing industry, enabling clothing retailers to sell clothing across Europe without changing designs or labels.
The proposals have created something of an uproar amongst right-wing nationalist tabloids in the UK, because the proposals would being to an end Britain’s comparatively rigid size 4 to 32 dress sizing system, based on fixed hip and bust sizes.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

EUROPEAN Union (EU) legislation applying specifically to nutraceuticals, as opposed to its laws covering safety and health regarding foods of all kinds, is a relatively recent development. The first, and so far the only directly applicable legislation, is the so-called food supplements directive approved in June 2002 and numbered 2002/46/EC “on the approximation of the laws of member states relating to food supplements.”…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AIRCRAFT landing and parking charges in India are expected to increase from May of 2008 when the government control over the pricing structure, put in place while privatising Delhi and Mumbai airports, will be replaced by a market oriented system.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AIRCRAFT landing and parking charges in India are expected to increase from May of 2008 when the government control over the pricing structure, put in place while privatising Delhi and Mumbai airports, will be replaced by a market oriented system.…