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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH sales of biofuels still very much in their nascent stage and concerns rising about the environmental impact of biofuels growing, research and development into ‘second-generation’ biofuels is going ahead apace. And a key element of this work is lowering CO2 emissions from fuel by using waste alternative sources of material for conversion to biofuel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked France, Italy, Luxembourg and Slovenia to update their chemical laws to comply with the European Union’s (EU) 2008 directive on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, which covers cosmetics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FINANCIAL rescue package for ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project was in major jeopardy last night as European Union (EU) politicians failed to agree an EU budget for 2011. The package had included a commitment to find an additional Euro EUR1.4 billion in additional EU funds for the global nuclear fusion project in 2012 and 2013, which is 45% funded by the European Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEDIUM-sized and large paint and coating coatings companies and their suppliers have wrongly claimed low administrative charges for small businesses under the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned. After the first November 30 deadline for registering chemicals under REACH has passed, ECHA officials will screen claims for the small business administration rate of Euro EUR8,300 and EUR2,070 for micro businesses, assessing whether these claimants were actually small.…

BY David Haworth

Too few universities teach about turning science into specific products to be sold on the markets and lack entrepreneurship departments which instruct ways in which ideas can be turned into money. Dr Bernd Huber, president of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, tells an audience of some 300 researchers attending a Brussels conference on the future of Europe’s science and technology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its gas infrastructure investment priorities for the next 20 years. They are pipeline and other transit projects delivering gas directly from the Caspian Sea to Europe; integrating the Baltic gas market, connecting it to central and southeast Europe; and boosting north-south infrastructure in western Europe to remove internal bottlenecks.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE cuts and bruises from angry patients are nothing new to nurses, there are growing concerns that there is a link between physical assaults and long-term musculoskeletal symptoms.

The mental and emotional consequences of nursing violence have been on the radar of health institutions for a long time, but a recent study published in the UK-based international academic journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine is the first to make the connection between physical violence and chronic health problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MJ DESCHAMPS

WHEN the European Commission heralds the oncoming launch of a major new energy initiative, it is usually wise to await the details with a healthy dose of scepticism. A master of hyperbole and repackaging old policies as new, the devil is always in the detail with grand European Union (EU) announcements.…

BY WANG FANGQING, ALAN OSBORN

Tainted tobacco leaves generate China push to restore polluted soil

A new report has warned that Chinese tobacco plants are sucking up heavy metals from contaminated soils. The Chinese tobacco industry is challenging the findings, and analysts predict sales will not be weakened.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN AMERICAN company offering high-tech navigation services providing real-time advice on avoiding congestion, has branded London as Europe’s second largest traffic jams. Only Paris has more congestion, says USA-based Inrix Inc. It has collated data from drivers using its systems to create, it says, more comprehensive traffic information than available from traditional road sensors and sample surveys.…