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BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS from Bonn University, Germany, have staged medical trials proving that certain honeys have strong medicinal qualities. It has fused two special honeys to treat skin injuries on children whose immune systems have been weakened through cancer therapies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

CURRENT European Union (EU) president Finland will this year urge fellow member states to raise the political profile of alcohol across Europe as a threat to public health, bringing in specific measures to curb abuses. Its views are particularly important this year, because the European Commission is buffing up just such a plan for release in September or October, and the Finns will be pushing or agreement at the EU Council of Ministers in December.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS from Bonn University, Germany, have proved that honey can be used to heal wounds, opening up new neutraceutical marketing opportunities, says a European Commission research report.

*http://www.uni-bonn.de/

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer alert service RAPEX has warned of three skin-creams being withdrawn from sale because their ingredients include substances banned or restricted by the EU cosmetics directive. They are:

*A US-made tanning intensifier and bronzer named ‘Swedish Beauty’ banned by British consumer authorities for containing vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) which the directive prohibits in cosmetics;

*An Ivory Coast-made skin lightening beauty cream ‘G&G’ (500 g can), recalled in Germany because of excess concentrations of hydroquinone; and

*An Italian-made skin lightener labelled Beneks Pharmaceuticals Ltd destroyed by French retailers because it contains a banned glucocorticoid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) food safety consumer alert service RASFF has warned of a series of aflatoxin contaminations in a variety of imported and EU-produced foodstuffs. Aflatoxins have been discovered within: Polish roasted and salted peanuts in Slovenia; Ethiopian mixed spices in Italy; Chinese, Ivory Coast and Ghanaian peanut butter in Britain; American almonds in Italy; Turkish hazelnuts, kernels and paste in France, Germany and Italy; Nigerian ogbono groundnuts in Britain; and Iranian pistachio nuts in Germany, Spain and Poland, among others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE VAST financial impact on the European Union (EU) budget of financial frauds involving the cigarette industry has been made starkly clear by the most recent report from EU anti-fraud agency OLAF. It says the cost of cases being probed by its investigators during 2005 was Euro 1.3 billion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld or strengthened two fines originally imposed by the European Commission on seven graphite electrode producers from Germany, Japan and the USA for operating a global cartel. These penalties had been appealed, and eased somewhat by the ECJ’s junior Court of First Instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY’S Ruhr valley has long been a symbol of industrial decline and high polluting coal-based industry, so it is apt that a planned 750 MW power station, using the latest clean-coal technology should be sited here. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced plans to lend operators STEAG Aktiengesellschaft, Germany, and ENV AG, Austria, Euro 420 million: half the development costs of a power station in Duisburg-Walsum.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

EUROPEAN Union (EU) lawmakers are stepping up the development of a legally binding technical standard to ensure the safe operation of hydrogen fuel cells in road vehicles. The European Commission has begun a public consultation (which runs until September 15) on the matter, seeking to ensure that the rapid technical development of hydrogen power by automakers is not held back by safety fears and conflicting national safety rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has announced plans to lend operators power plant STEAG Aktiengesellschaft, Germany, and ENV AG, Austria, Euro 420 million, to help build a 750 MW coal power station, using the latest emissions control technology. The plant would be at the Ruhr Valley’s Duisburg-Walsum, a region with a long coal mining tradition.…