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BY MONICA DOBIE
CHEESEBURGERS can help fight off dangerous bacteria and stomach complaints, say Dutch scientists. A study published in the USA’s Journal of Experimental Medicine, shows that eating high fat foods can help ward off infection and soothe gut inflammations.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS
THE RELATIONSHIP between Caribbean people and tobacco could have at one time been described as virtually umbilical, with important outward feeders to Europe and other parts of the world. Tobago, the smaller unit of the twin-island state of Trinidad & Tobago, bears the name of the instrument used by native Amerindians 500 years ago to smoke Burly blends.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DUTCH cigarette wholesale trader hit by an illegal diversion of cargo involving corrupt customs officers should pay Euro 1 million customs debts, the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance has ruled. It said Ricosmos, of the Netherlands, then part of the Kamstra Shipstores group, was liable, despite not being involved in the fraud.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of sole control of Netherlands-based EU food ingredient business IMCD Group by global financial services group ABN AMRO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DUTCH cigarette wholesale trader hit by an illegal diversion of cargo involving corrupt customs officers should pay 2.2 million Dutch guilders customs debts (Euro 1 million), the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has ruled.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A LINK between under-nourishment and mental illness has been confirmed after scientists found that children born during China’s 1959-61 famine were twice as likely to develop schizophrenia. It afflicts roughly 1% of the global population and tends to run in families but researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University noted that the percentage of children who were babies during the famine and developed schizophrenia rose to 2.2%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN tobacco industry is resisting handing over detailed cigarette ingredients data to national European Union (EU) governments, a European Commission report has claimed, despite it being their legal duty under the EU tobacco products directive. Highlighting “some difficulties associated to the submission of ingredient information…by the industry”, the Commission said data has so far only been sent to Brussels by 13 out of the 25 EU member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists will cooperate for the next five years in a Euro 7 million research project developing odour traps and effective repellents to keep malarial mosquitoes away from potential human hosts. This Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative will unite US, Dutch, Tanzania and Gambia researchers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN both the Austrian and Swiss paint industries the European Union’s (EU) chemicals policy, and in particular next year’s introduction of the regulatory framework known as REACH, hang like a grim cloud over the near to mid term future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ACQUISITION of sole control of fresh yeast, dry yeast and related bread ingredients producer DSM Bakery Ingredients by Gilde Buy-Out Fund II, of the Netherlands, from fellow Dutch company Royal DSM NV, has been approved without conditions by the European Commission.…