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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

INDIA’S response to the final Harry Potter novel has been “absolutely amazing and delightful” for the local distributor Penguin India. With 170,000 copies sold in first 12 hours across the country and another 90,000 decorating bookshops, it is by far India’s fastest selling book ever.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

THE CHINA National Publications Import and Export Corporation, which controls imports of books, imported 50,000 English language copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The company usually orders about 100 copies of popular English language books.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HAVING a crystal ball can be useful and profitable for oils and fats businesses wanting to get ahead of the game and know what investments they may need to comply with future regulations and best practice.
But how should this be done?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved the accession of EURATOM to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material. This follows a European Court of Justice ruling that EURATOM was legally responsible for ensuring nuclear materials are not used illicitly, and so should become a convention party.…

BY MARK ROWE

DANISH scientists believe they are on the verge of developing a novel means of storing carbon dioxide. Its Professor Susan Stipp, of the University of Copenhagen’s Nanotechnology Centre is developing a way to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and store it by turning it into rock.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD food standards body the Codex Alimentarius has approved new additional guidelines for handling chicken to fight salmonella and campylobacter worldwide. A spokesman for the body’s ruling commission said later: “Finding efficient ways of dealing with this problem from farm to table could result in the prevention of hundreds of thousands of foodborne disease cases every year.”…

BY MARK ROWE

A FUEL marker so complex that it is all but impossible for thieves to replicate has been developed by scientists; the marker is so sensitive, it can identify illegal stolen fuel by using nanotechnology-based components.
This nanotech-based tracer, developed by Authentix, a nano-science company based in Dallas, Texas, uses hand-held LSX-based technology, and which has already been taken up by Luke Oil, Shell and BP in the United States.…

BY MARK ROWE

CONCERNS over the way in which soybean production takes place have led to calls for the Brazilian government to dramatically escalate its efforts to clean up the industry. Groups campaigning for a socially and environmentally responsible approach to soy production have called on the Brazilian government to speed up the process of providing satellite images that can map the scale of soy-related deforestation, and regulate the ownership of land earmarked for soy production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed adjusting the current European Union (EU) system of classification of chemical substances and mixtures with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonised System (GHS). This internationally accepted classification criteria and labelling system is to be integrated in new EU legislation, replacing the current laws on the classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances (directive 67/548/EEC) and mixtures (directive 1999/45/EC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRODUCTION of one kilogram of beef creates more greenhouse gas emissions than motoring for three hours, leaving the lights on at home, according to a new Japanese study. The country’s National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, Tsukuba, examined CO2 emissions emitted by way of methane from beef cattle; the energy required to create the beef (including feed production, husbandry, transport, slaughtering, butchering and packaging); plus the environmental effects of production methods, for instance water acidification and eutrophication, with excessive nutrient runoff into lakes, rivers and ponds reducing oxygen content and CO2 absorption.…