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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN researchers have created a new method to manufacture groups of different kinds of proteins they claim is much faster than traditional genetic engineering systems. A group of scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues in Britain, France, Switzerland and Sweden have called their discovery "the first fully automated pipeline for the production of multiprotein complexes", or ACEMBL, said a European Commission note.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DYING companies may find commercially useful new information revealed about the molecular structure of cotton by the USA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). It and collaborators the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, and the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, has provided new information about hydrogen bonds that connect the building blocks of cellulose, the main molecule in cotton fibres and most other plant cell walls.…

BY MARK ROWE

The expansion of the European Union (EU) continues eastwards – and the food and drink industry of the existing EU will inevitably be affected by the new competition, as will companies in the new member countries.

The next few years are likely to see several countries accede to the EU.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

STANDFIRST

The Indian clothing sector is emerging from its traditional image as an outsourcing-hub image and establishing its own brands that sell modern design and high quality garments in the international market. A resurgent economy still growing during the current global economic downturn and the official encouragement of entrepreneurial freedom have brought forward talented designers to challenge established names in the business.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACED with a global recession caused partly by commercial financial crime, governments have been pushed into taking action against tax evasion in recent months by ending the practice of banking secrecy. Is it the end of the road for tax havens as protected jurisdictions where illicit transactions can hide?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW system of gathering food health data across the European Union (EU) appears to have marred an annual comparative study from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), with Britain’s data collection being indirectly criticised.

While the UK appears to have received a relative clean bill of health regarding food-related illnesses, statistical anomalies probably explain the results, with Britain supplying insufficient information.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, DAVID HAWORTH, RUSSELL BERMAN, MARK GODFREY and GAVIN BLAIR

INTRODUCTION

WHILE the drinks industry is undoubtedly an important sector in the global economy, the honest truth is that there are bigger players in town: the IT sector, steel making, and food, to name a handful.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE IMMINENT threat of heavy USA tariffs on many European Union (EU) confectionery exports has been lifted, after Washington and Brussels struck a preliminary deal over the long-running beef hormone dispute. Retaliatory duties such as 100% duties on filled chocolate, chewing gum, raspberry and lingonberry jams were to have been levied this month (May), but have now been suspended, along with other EU food products earmarked for new tariffs, such as fruit juices from Austria, Cyprus, France and Poland.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON

DEMAND for halal cosmetics worldwide is on the rise, driven not only by more affluent Muslim consumers but also growing interest in high quality, safe products.

Sales of all kinds of halal-certified goods have surged in recent years alongside higher purchasing power in Muslim countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IN another sign of attitude shifts towards global standards on commercial crime, a group of international business leaders have called on governments to do more in fighting corruption. Executives from 27 companies ranging from Britain’s Anglo American and Sweden’s IKEA, to EADS France, the USA’s General Electric Company and India’s Tata signed the letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.…