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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERYONE knows commercial fraud costs business millions and millions of dollars and euros, but no one really knows how much. The United Nations is going to investigate, following a successful international seminar staged in Vienna. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A COMBINATION of global warming increasing pollen production and chronic pollution from industry and traffic of is raising levels of asthma in children according to a report from the American Public Health Association. The impact of increased on the under-fives was particularly damaging; their asthma rates rose 160 per cent from 1980 to 1994.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL food standards body Codex Alimentarius has drawn up new standards for dairy products for consultation, including guidelines for evaporated skimmed milk-vegetable fat blends, fermented milks and minimum protein content in cheese.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHEN a local pizza parlour goes bust, or the site of a planned hotel complex is suddenly left abandoned or interest rates suddenly shoot up for no apparent reason, we don’t normally blame money launderers. Perhaps we should though.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE GLOBAL food standards body Codex Alimentarius has asked its member countries for their comments on a number of proposed food risk assessment, dairy and additive standards which could become the basis for international food safety legislation. Since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round in 1994 the Codex has become the reference point for international food law, laying down precise regulations for the composition of more than 200 specific food products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Generally the application of geo-spatial technology for sustainable management of Tanzania’s forests and woodlands is still low. Thus, there is a big gap between developed countries and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in application of space science and technologies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have developed technology that could help fight a major garden industry pest, detecting and identifying the presence of black vine weevils through the computerised interpretation of their bodily vibrations. James R. Fisher, entomologist from the USA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), has developed a wand-like microphone that can be inserted onto a large nail placed at the root in nursery pots.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-funded research consortium is producing biodegradable plastics from whey separated from milk curd during cheese-making. WHEYPOL is synthesising the polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) generated from whey. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5316860&CFID=83049&CFTOKEN=71957927…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation is to be named as the coordinator of a global plan to cut road deaths from their current level 1.2 million. The United Nations general assembly is discussing how it can work with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and relevant national ministries to reduce the number of such tragedies.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released a global catalogue of ideal safety signs for accident prevention, fire protection and emergency evacuation, because of concerns that worldwide, confusion sparked by existing signs causes death and injuries. Its move follows the release in the UK of a survey by leading health and safety equipment supplier Seton, that 87 per cent of British office-based professionals cannot identify electrical warning signs.…