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BY MONICA DOBIE
A GERMAN beer company has created a beer containing nicotine, designed for smokers trying to quit, especially as researchers have proved smokers have difficulty resisting a cigarette when drinking, because they associate the two pastimes. Its beer NicoShot, has three milligrams of nicotine and a 6.3% alcohol content.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SMOKERS trying to quit their habit, particularly when surrounded by triggers such as alcohol and second hand-smoke in bars, may now be able to fight the cravings by drinking a new brand of beer that contains nicotine. The beer, known as NicoShot, has three milligrams of nicotine and a 6.3% alcohol content.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN times of conflict, cultural property, such as archaeological sites, works of art, museums and monuments, can also suffer grievously at the hands of opposing military and guerrilla forces. In recognition of this, such objects are accorded protection by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s consumer alert service RAPEX has reported the voluntary withdrawal from distribution from German stores of a Turkey-made shampoo range ‘Hobby Collection Baby Shampoo’, both blue and pink bottles. RAPEX reported "presence of excessive quantities of pseudomonas aeruginosa", and non-compliance with the European Union cosmetic product directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has launched a research project developing a virtual-reality unit, training construction workers in using potentially dangerous heavy plant, without the risk of injuring their co-workers. Researchers from Spain, Germany, France, Slovakia, Poland, Portugal and Italy are designing a computer-aided training programme, involving a virtual-reality platform or cabin with controls mirroring those on real-life equipment plant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DYE supplies companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were four dye suppliers named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
DYE manufacturers, like others in the European chemical industry, have reacted with ill-concealed dismay to the amendments approved by the environment committee of the European Parliament to the European Commission’s proposals for the REACH chemicals control programme. In a vote taken on October 4, the committee approved the original Brussels proposals for controlling the 10-100 tonne volume band, sharply breaking with the views of the industry and internal market committees, which had called for this to be relaxed.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control of seafood firm Nordsee, of Germany, by a consortium involving the UK subsidiary of Japanese investment bank Nomura, a private investor Mr Heiner Kamps, and TML-Invest, of Switzerland, (owned by German food company the Müller Group).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ON July 31 this year the European Union’s (EU) Tobacco Advertising Directive came into effect, making it illegal to advertise tobacco products in the print media, radio and over the Internet within the EU. Also banned was tobacco sponsorship of cross-border cultural and sporting events.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S labour costs are rising at a faster rate than those of its key European Union (EU) competitors, Germany and France, figures from the EU statistical agency Eurostat reveal. In the second quarter of 2005, UK nominal hourly labour costs for the whole economy rose by 3.4% compared with the same period in 2004.…