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BY ALAN OSBORN

IN today’s world of globalised and increasingly competitive markets Europe’s food and drink industries need enlightened regulation if they are to meet accepted international standards for safety, additives, labelling and environmental responsibility.

There can be too much of it of course.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

AS Japanese consumers seek out innovative cosmetics, homegrown beauty brands must continuously come up with novel products to keep their place within the industry and the use of bio-based oils and fats in formulations is an important part of that process.…

BY MAKKI MARSEILLES

GREECE is something of a paradox in the tobacco sector. Its citizens smoke more cigarettes per capita than anywhere else in the world, yet its government is increasing anti-smoking legislation and its long-established leaf growing sector is shrinking towards virtual extinction.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE USEFULNESS of the statistical measure ‘threshold of toxicological concern’ to assess potential health dangers posed by cosmetics has been challenged by three European Union (EU) scientific committees. Its Achilles heel, they said, is that checks are "dependent on the quality, quantity, and relevance of the underlying toxicity database and a reliable estimation of the exposure to the chemical in the respective field of application".…

BY MONICA DOBIE

WOMEN hair stylists exposed to hairspray in the first trimester of pregnancy, more than double the risk of having a son with the genital birth defect hypospadias claim studies from the Imperial College London, University College Cork and the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have pushed for a major overhaul of the way authorised genetically modified food products are monitored, to make sure discoveries in their environmental and health affects are noted and taken into account by regulators.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…

BY ERIC LYMAN

BATTLE lines have been drawn in negotiations to renew the Kyoto Protocol over the future shape of energy policy within future United Nations efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At December’s climate change summit, in Poznan, Poland, a key power industry issue has emerged as a primary point of discord: whether or not carbon capture and storage technologies should be allowed in a revised Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).…

BY MARK ROWE

THE FUTURE of the oils and fats sector globally may be shaped in the coming years by the emergence of synthetic biology, which is enabling scientists to create oils and fats with enhanced properties.

This new technology has been developed in the wake of advances in biofuel manufacture, as the United Nations, major energy companies, scientists and environmental organisations all seek to identify the sources of energy that will sustain a post-oil world.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE US president-elect, Barack Obama, will take office later this month (Jan 20) having promised sweeping changes to America’s energy policy. This includes aggressive regulations on carbon emissions to combat climate change and substantially increased government funding for alternative energy with the aim of creating a new "green" sector of the American economy devoted to the development of renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean coal and other sources.…