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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUREKA-network European Union research project has developed software speeding-up the design of ready-meals. Computer programmes will help instant manufacturers assess how their products defrost and cook in microwaves.

*The MICRODEFROST MODEL: Birgitta Wäppling-Raaholt – br@sik.se

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS from Bonn University, Germany, have proved that honey can be used to heal wounds, opening up new neutraceutical marketing opportunities, says a European Commission research report.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUREKA-network EU research project has developed software speeding-up the design of ready-meals. Computer programmes will help instant manufacturers assess how their products defrost and cook in microwaves. *The MICRODEFROST MODEL: Birgitta Wäppling-Raaholt – br@sik.se

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

TV dinners should be quick to prepare, and now a European research project has developed software speeding-up the design of ready-meals. Computer programmes created by Swedish and Polish scientists in the Eureka network, will help instant meal manufacturers assess how their products defrost and cook in microwaves.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

FOOD manufacturers and retailers may sell more if they price ranges of similar products the same, American researchers show. A Northwestern University study in the US Journal of Consumer Research compared parity pricing and differential pricing, studying people ordering restaurant desserts.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

AGRICULTURAL Research Service scientists in the US have developed an organic alternative to animal fat and vegetable oil bio-based lubricants that is more cost efficient and better performing than existing bio-lubricants, rivalling commercially available petroleum-based lubricants.

The new lube is chemically connected with different unsaturated fats called estolides, the building blocks of high-oleic oils, such as sunflowers and canola.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

USA Agricultural Research Service scientists have developed a bio-based lubricant called estolides with cold and oxygen resistance outperforming existing bio-lubes. They chemically connecting different unsaturated fatty acids in production, creating unsaturated estolides withstanding -30C and saturated estolides -40C, before thickening into gels, compared -18C for conventional soya-based lubricants.…

BY MARK ROWE, in Munich

NANOTECHNOLOGY is on the verge of transforming the way in which energy production takes place. The use of components such as carbon nanotubes is forcing scientists to reassess the potential yields and efficiency associated with traditional energy production.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

AMERICAN researchers have found that paint manufacturers continue to produce and sell consumer paints with dangerously high levels of lead in countries with weak environmental health controls. A University of Cincinnati study, to be published in the journal Environmental Research, found 75% of all tested paint in India, China and Malaysia contained high levels of lead, with more than 50% of samples containing levels 30 times higher than the permitted US standard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has developed a software tool called an ‘uncertainty manager’, which can help food manufacturers manage unpredictable results when testing products for additive concentration, drug residues and other microbiological issues. Because of many variables, from human error to prevailing weather, results can vary, even for the same test, on a single foodstuff.…