Search Results for: Dutch caribbean

BY MONICA DOBIE
DUTCH scientists from Eindhoven Technical University have developed an inexpensive software patch that can reduce CO2 emissions in new vehicles by 2.6%. The patch shuts alternators on and off when a car or van’s speed makes it inefficient for the engine to power it, conserving energy and improving the overall efficiency of the engine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s consumer alert service RAPEX has warned of a voluntary recall of ‘Rival de Loop’ double effect mascara in the Netherlands. This followed the discovery of excess bacterial contamination in 17% of the line, which was totally recalled.…

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
NICARAGUA has joined the latest round of formal disputes talks demanded by Ecuador at the World Trade Organisation, over the European Union’s banana import system, which Managua says favours Caribbean island producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition from ICI of Dutch-registered flavourings and fragrances manufacturer Quest International by Switzerland-based Givaudan, which operates in the same sector.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union anti-fraud agency OLAF has uncovered a rules-of-origin fraud where 4,000 tonnes raw cane sugar was illicitly imported into Britain and Malta under duty-free African-Caribbean-Pacific quotas. The sugar was Brazilian, evading Euro 2 million duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) US$85 million loan to ISTIL Ukraine, will help the Ukraine’s only modern mini-steel mill using an electric arc furnace and continuous casting technology to raise Euro 3 million in Kyoto Protocol carbon credit sales.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has awarded a network of European researchers Euro 2.4 million to chase one of the pharmaceutical industry’s Holy Grails: a malaria vaccine. Coordinated by Dutch biotechnology company Crucell, researchers will over three years conduct pre-clinical trials of a peadiatric vaccine where a version of the BCG (tuberculosis) vaccine is the vector for a malaria antigen.…