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THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared it is ready to investigate the contamination of beef products with horsemeat, because it raises issues of false labelling, food quality and traceability in the European Union (EU) food chain. Although there is no evidence at the moment of any food safety issues, risk managers from EU countries are already conducting extensive tests of meat products to assess their components.…

PHARMACEUTICAL companies seeking pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology information from across the European Union (EU) can now consult two new databases. Created by the public-private partnership PROTECT project, they are the Drug Consumption Database and the PROTECT ADR [adverse drug reaction] database.…

NORWAY is on course to become the latest European country to roll-out full body scanners at its airports, following a ministry of transport and communications decision, authorising the country’s airports to purchase and employ 360 degree full body scan technologies and equipment.…

RUSSIA is now the world’s highest value market for super premium fragrances, in a development that appears to reflect the fabulous wealth of the burgeoning Russian middle and upper class.

The price of premium fragrances ranges wildly. At the top end, the latest super premium fragrance from Giorgio Armani (Armani Prive La Femme Bleue) is limited to only 1,000 bottles, and retails in Moscow with a price tag of around USD600 for a 100ml bottle.…

Universities should be more transparent about what their offer through their PhD programmes, to better allow students to compare doctoral studies across Europe, Thomas Jørgensen, the author of the recently concluded Accountable Research Environments for Doctoral Education (ARDE) project told University World News in Brussels today.…

INDIA’s auditors have had a difficult time in the court of public opinion since the revelations of the USD1 billion Satyam Computer Services scandal. A new Companies Bill might change that – although it will also inflict some pain on India’s auditors.…

EUROPE risks falling behind its international rivals in rolling out high-speed broadband technology because of European Union (EU) policies, warns Erzsébet Fitori, director of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA), which represents new telco entrants. In an exclusive interview with European Communications at her Brussels office, Fitori said Europe will not have end-to-end fibre networks if the currently recommended policy approach, which rewards investment in partial network infrastructure upgrades such as VDSL, is endorsed.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released formal guidance to European Union (EU) member states on fighting tax evasion and avoidance. In one of two ‘recommendations’ the Commission has advised member states to identify tax havens and place them on national blacklists, suggesting national governments take measures to pressure such non-EU jurisdictions to “apply EU governance standards” regarding tax transparency and payment.…

THE ENERGY sector has been left guessing whether there will be a robust future international climate change agreement after the latest global diplomatic meeting on the subject in Doha, Qatar. Delegates attending the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change were tasked from November 26 to December 7 with solving two key issues: devising a post-Kyoto Protocol agreement that will kick in from 2020; and also devising a holding agreement for countries wanting to reduce emissions from the expiry of the Kyoto Protocol this December until the new agreement comes into force.…

AFTER months of speculation about the future of Poland’s nuclear program, the New Year has brought an encouraging sign of progress.

On January 9, PGE EJ 1, the special purpose vehicle handling the construction of Poland’s first of two planned nuclear power plants, announced the result of a public tender to select a contractor to assess possible sites, looking at a shortlist of three.…