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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTCH government has been told by the European Court of Justice to scrap rules insisting exporters from other European Union (EU) member countries wanting to sell foodstuffs with additional vitamins or mineral salts first prove they meet a “nutritional need” and do not risk public health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GRANTS worth Euro 1.35 million have been awarded by the Dutch government to fund two new research centres carrying out multidisciplinary studies into the prevention, management and treatment of infectious diseases in the Netherlands and developing countries. The centres will be virtual institutions, recruiting researchers from around the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) should be completed this June. It has involved an apron expansion, landscaping and the construction of a sewerage treatment plant, a control tower and a new runway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan facing unprecedented pressure for his resignation over the involvement of his son in the brewing Iraq oil for food scandal, the spotlight has again fallen on the finances of his global body.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Akzo Nobel, BASF and UCB Euro 66.34 million for operating between 1992-8 a cartel for choline chloride (CORRECT SPELLING) cartel (poultry and pig feed additive vitamin B4). These Dutch, German and Belgium chemical companies set European prices and market shares.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition by Dutch veal and calf producer Van Drie of calf-feed specialist Schils, also of the Netherlands, which focuses on dry dairy feed calf-milk replacers. Although Brussels accepted the merged company would command influence in European feed and slaughtering markets, it concluded there was sufficient competition to allow the take-over.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Akzo Nobel, BASF and UCB Euro 66.34 million for operating between 1992-8 a cartel for choline chloride (CORRECT SPELLING) cartel (poultry and pig feed additive vitamin B4). These Dutch, German and Belgium chemical companies set European prices and market shares with the USA’s DuCoa and Canada’s Chinook, escaping fines by leaving the cartel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TEAM of Dutch researchers has offered the PVC industry a possible alternative to using toxic phthalates to soften plastics, in the wake of September’s decision by the European Union (EU) to ban six of these chemicals in toys.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTCH, Belgian and German governments have placed 162 cattle farms in quarantine after it was revealed they were feeding (partly dairy) livestock potato peels contaminated with dioxin. The carcinogenic chemical had been present in clay used by potato supplier McCain to separate potatoes of differing qualities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN clay producer Fuchs is at the centre of a row involving the contamination of animal feed with dioxin, after its kaolin – used by agricultural to separate potato peels from potatoes – was found to contain the cancer-causing chemical.…