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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a three-pronged attack on using animals to test cosmetics, notably by releasing formal guidelines on labelling claiming products were tested in other ways. Participating manufacturers, whose products could gain a significant marketing boost from these labels, must follow common criteria to make such claims.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN the space of less than three years the German cigarette market has gone from being Europe’s most stable, profitable and legislation-free into one beset by obstacles almost everywhere you look. In the words of an independent report just issued by the market number two British American Tobacco, the industry has "overnight….found…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DRINKS industry arm of the European Union’s (EU) Joint Research Centre (JRC) is developing analytical methods to classify fruit juice products and their fruit content or added sugar.

BEVABS (the European Office for Wine, Alcohol and Spirit Drinks) wants to help customs officers and consumer protection teams identify fraudulent labelling for fruit juice products, and help manufacturers conduct their own quality controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union-EU funded research project has developed an IT analysis system helping mine operators and regulators assess risks posed by stored waste in tailings ponds. e-EcoRisk should help emergency services deal with spillages, especially catastrophes such as the Baia Mare gold mine disaster in Romania.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

AGRICULTURAL Research Service, USA, scientists have determined that the mineral gypsum is a very effective soil additive for curbing run-off of phosphorus from farm fields into water supplies. They found that applying 5,000 pounds of gypsum per acre of soil curtailed phosphorus leaching by promoting the binding together of soil particles, locking in the contaminant and reducing the likelihood of its leaching into watercourses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TARGETED energy research projects of all kinds will command budgets of Euro 2.2 billion from 2007-13 under a draft rewritten European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7). Other targeted research budgets under the Euro 54.5 billion scheme proposed by the European Commission include Euro 1.8 billion on environmental studies and Euro 9 million on IT, the largest budget for focused research work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD, biotechnology and agriculture research projects will command budgets of Euro 1.9 billion from 2007-13 under a draft rewritten European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7). Other targeted research budgets under the Euro 54.5 billion scheme proposed by the European Commission of potential relevance to the food sector include Euro 5.9 billion on health, Euro 1.8 million on environmental research, plus Euro 3.4 billion on nanotechnology, materials, and manufacturing.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has launched a comprehensive anti-corruption initiative, funding good governance and anti-corruption initiatives in developing countries, often seconding expert western accountants and auditors. The thinking, said bank president Paul Wolfowitz, is that honest governments are more effective developing economies than corrupt regimes.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE DEADLY viral hemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV), which causes fatal anaemia and haemorrhaging in many fish species, has been discovered for the first time in norther-eastern north America, in upstate New York, by Cornell University researchers.
In May 2006, scientists isolated the virus in round gobies that died in a massive fish kill in the southern St Lawrence River and in Irondequoit Bay, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario near Rochester, New York.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

SCIENTISTS from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the USA have determined that the mineral gypsum is very effective soil additive for curbing run-off of phosphorus from farm fields into water supplies.

Their work could give additional value to gypsum, one of the more common minerals often in massive beds.…