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China in April successfully conducted a maiden test flight of the first aviation biofuel entirely processed on its shores, joining the US, Finland and France as only the fourth country in the world to independently research and develop a bio-jet fuel production technology.…

MEAT traders should be officially registered and covered by official controls, Enrico Frabetti, deputy secretary general of the Liaison Centre for the Meat Processing Industry in the EU (CLITRAVI) told a conference organised in the European Parliament yesterday (Tues) afternoon.

“There should be a register for meat brokers at European Union (EU) level to make sure they are known, but food business operators should also know what traders they are working with,” Frabetti told delegates to the event organised by Dutch centre-right MEP Esther de Lange.…

A CENTRE-left Portuguese member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nuno Teixeira has raised concerns about the safety of Brazilian beef after learning that two shipments of Brazilian beef meat have been blocked in the port of Rotterdam after testing positive for the presence of Ecoli bacteria.…

PLASTICS companies have not responded comprehensively to requests from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) that they register certain ingredients and polymers in the now completed second registration process under European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH. ECHA says that by the May 31 deadline for registering chemicals made, used or imported in quantities of 100 tonnes or more, there were 984 substances left unregistered that companies had earlier promised to register.…

THE CONSORTIUM running the European Commission-backed U-Multirank is working to better ensure the quality and reliability of the indicators it will use to rank universities, University World News has been told. Speaking exclusively to University World News, Jordi Curell, director of higher education and international affairs at the Commission’s directorate general for education and culture, said assessments were weakened by universities failing to monitor the professional success of their graduates: “There is an issue because some of the indicators are difficult to obtain, especially when it comes to the tracking of students, because they don’t exist everywhere,” he said.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has told the Dutch government it should stop exempting state-owned businesses from corporate taxation. Many Dutch government-owned corporations benefit including the Port of Rotterdam, Holland Casino, Maastricht airport and the Bank of Industry LIOF. The Commission claims this could break EU state aid rules designed to prevent governments giving unfair advantages to local companies in the EU single market: “Exempting certain companies merely because they are publicly owned gives them a competitive advantage which cannot be justified.”…

THE UNITED States might be a relatively new country, but it has not been keen on changing the borders of its constituent states, counties and cities. The result is sometimes an administrative hotchpotch, with political and administrative boundaries set in the 1700s and 1800s bisecting urban communities in an almost arbitrary way.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) restrictions could be imposed in future on three chemicals used in the EU paints and coatings sector, with member states agreeing that they may be carcinogenic, mutagenic or harmful to reproduction. Toluene, ethylene oxide and tributyl phosphate (TBP) have been assessed under the EU’s ‘community rolling action plan’ (CoRAP) programme (NAME IS CORRECT), which is part of Europe’s chemical control system REACH.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a series of three-year spending programmes helping meat producers from around the European Union (EU) sell their products at home and abroad. The money funds “public relations, promotional or publicity campaigns” said Brussels, with spending being augmented by matching funding sourced from industry groups and national governments.…

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has made a lot of noise about its anti-bribery convention. But some countries are failing to comply, and where others do – otherwise honest companies can lose trade. David Hayhurst and Keith Nuthall report.…