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BIRD FLU HINDERS ATTEMPTS TO OPEN CHINESE MARKET TO EUROPEAN POULTRY
THE OUTBREAKS of bird flu in Germany, Britain and the Netherlands is hampering efforts to create export markets in mainland China for these countries’ poultry and poultry products.
China’s Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) on November 27 banned any poultry products and birds from entering China if they were produced and reared in North-Rhine Westphalia.…
NELIPAK LAUNCHES NEW TABLE TOP HEAT SEALER
Dutch technology firm Nelipak Healthcare Packaging has launched a new table top tray heat sealer, used for packaging items in cleanroom environments, notably International Organization for Standardization (ISO) cleanrooms classified ‘seven’ (which ranges from 2,930 to 352,000 dust or other particles allowed per cubic metre of air) and ‘eight’ (29,300 to 3,520,000 particles).…
RUSSIA ENERGY MINISTER LAUNCHES AMBITIOUS CO-GEN EXPANSION INITIATIVE
RUSSIA’S combined heat and power sector is poised to undergo a radical transformation that will use the open market to rejuvenate and update the industry, according to the country’s energy minister.
Speaking to the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, energy minister Alexander Novak announced last November that creating a competitive market for combined heat and power (CHP) was a key priority.…
NELIPAK LAUNCHES NEW TABLE TOP HEAT SEALER
Dutch technology firm Nelipak Healthcare Packaging has launched a new table top tray heat sealer, used for packaging items in cleanroom environments, notably International Organization for Standardization (ISO) cleanrooms classified ‘seven’ (which ranges from 2,930 to 352,000 dust or other particles allowed per cubic metre of air) and ‘eight’ (29,300 to 3,520,000 particles).…
MILK IS TOPS, BUT WHEY AHEAD EVEN BETTER, SAYS EU CRYSTAL BALL
MILK will remain “white gold” for Europe’s food sector during the next 10 years, despite the current market difficulties, according to the European Commission’s annual assessment of the industry’s prospects. The report was launched at a one-day conference in Brussels on Friday, December 5.…
EU RESEARCH PROJECT AIMS TO PERSONALISE EPILEPSY MEDICINE
A EURO EUR7.8 million, largely European Union (EU)-funded research project is analysing anonymised clinical data from nearly 2,000 epilepsy sufferers to work towards the personalisation of medicine for the condition. The goal is to create genome-based biomarkers to indicate potential success for epilepsy medicines, and the development of diagnostic tests.…
OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA OPENS NEW FRONTIERS ABROAD
The Open University of Tanzania (OUT) is reaching out to higher education institutions in other neighbouring countries to establish collaborations that will encourage more foreign students to enroll for distance learning.
University vice chancellor Professor Tolly Mbwette said the institution’s board hoped to spread its influence regionally: “We are now the largest distance learning university in the region and our plan is to take distance learning to most countries in East Africa and those under the Southern African Development Community [SADC] by 2016.”…
SMALLER-SCALE SOLUTIONS TO ROUTINE FLARING NEEDED
AROUND 140 billion cubic metres of associated natural gas from oil production is still burned off annually, according to World Bank analysis of satellite images from the United States’ (US) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Flares light up the night sky in regions such as the Arabian Desert and America’s Bakken formation in North Dakota, where shale oil production is booming.…
EUROPEAN CYBERCRIME CENTRE DELIVERS, BUT STILL FACES CHALLENGES
ALMOST two years since its establishment in January 2013, the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) created as part of Europol, has delivered on its objectives, but still faces numerous resource challenges. Set up by the European Commission to support the 28 European Union (EU) countries in cybercrime investigations targeting online intrusion, fraud and child sexual abuse and to disrupt the operations of organised crime networks that commit a large share of cybercrimes, the EC3 is now receiving more requests for support that it can handle, its head, Troels Oerting, told Fraud Intelligence.…
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – RUSSIA TRADE RESTRICTIONS BLOCK CONFECTIONERY AND INGREDIENT TRADES
DOCUMENTS obtained by Confectionery Production from the European Union (EU) indicate that Ukraine has lost up to USD126 million’s worth of confectionery export sales to Russia this year, because of Russian trade restrictions.
EU briefing papers note that Ukraine has been complaining to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) since October 2013 about alleged “unjustified barriers to trade caused by the measures of the Russian Federation, in particular, on Ukrainian confectionery products.”…