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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR cigarette smuggling boom is being reported in Ireland by customs teams, with a record 135.2 million cigarettes being seized last year, almost twice the amount seized in 2007. Of these, 56.82 million were counterfeits, the country’s Sunday Independent newspaper has reported.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STRENGTH of Britain’s recycling sector is becoming a force to reckon with across Europe, according to the latest available comparative figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat. The proportion of municipal waste recycled in the UK equalled the EU average in 2007, it says – 22%.…

BY MARK ROWE

BY the end of 2010, according to Britain’s Institute of Nanotechnology, nano elements will be incorporated in Euro 16.4 billion’s worth of annual food production across the world. This is likely to mean more work for environmental health officers.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES

THE NUMBER of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the skies above Europe is increasing rapidly, but safety concerns mean they normally remain segregated from other airspace users, inhibiting their employment in a wide range of activities. Eurocontrol, the European organisation for the safety of air navigation, has therefore launched a major project of work intended to ensure the safe and efficient integration of UAS into the pan-European Air Traffic Management Network (ATM).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have voted to allow all 27 EU member states to charge low rate VAT on leather goods repair services in future. Although this formal right should be introduced from January 2011, the vote makes it unlikely that the European Commission would prevent earlier VAT rate reductions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A TASKFORCE established by the European Commission after last year’s shortage of radiopharmaceutical supplies in Europe has recommended precautions are taken to deal with any repeats of these problems. This follows a 2008 summer temporary shutdown of the Netherlands’ High Flux Reactor in Petten, which produces 60% of radioisotopes used in European radiopharmaceuticals.…

By Monica Dobie

The ingredients of this cream was discovered through the Dutch researchers unraveling the ingredients of the protective film called Vernix caseosa (VC) that covers the foetus and newborn babies, helping skin growth before and after birth. It provides waterproofing inside the mother’s womb, allowing skin to grow in wet conditions, while after birth it hydrates and cleanses.…

BY MARK ROWE and SUZANNE KOELEGA

THE ISSUE of decommissioning rigs is an increasingly pressing one. According to consultants Wood Mackenzie up to half of the North Sea’s 600 installations – first installed nearly 40 years ago – are scheduled for decommissioning by 2021, while more than 4,000 are scheduled for removal worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EVERY recession has a silver lining: inefficient competitors are unmasked and forced out of business; and governments usually spend freely to pump prime an ailing economy. And for major essential industries such as the power sector, economic slumps can be good times.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BIOTECHNOLOGY companies will look carefully at the possible impact of a European Union (EU) Council of Ministers decision today to allow member states to block production f genetically modified (GM) foods previously approved by the EU. Ministers overwhelmingly threw out the latest bid by the European Commission to force Hungary to lift its national ban on the cultivation of Monsanto’s GM maize MON810 and Austria’s ban on MON810 and Bayer’s T25 maize.…