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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE REMARKABLY quick approval of the European Union’s (EU) Third Money Laundering Directive this summer has delighted the EU’s law enforcement agencies but it may have done little for the composure of lawyers who had hoped, in vain as it turned out, that the measure would tackle what they see as the deficiencies of the 2nd directive approved in 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DRUG officials in the European Union (EU) have confessed to being such cultural dinosaurs, it was five years after reports about ecstasy emerged in youth, music and lifestyle magazines before they started collecting and reporting data on the drug.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW group of specialists and academics forged by the European Commission will focus on the cancer risks associated with environmental and nutritional factors, as well as individual susceptibility. This ‘Network of Excellence’ ECNIS (environmental cancer, nutrition and individual susceptibility) is the latest group established to link experts from across the European Union (EU), under the European Research Area policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW group of specialists and academics forged by the European Commission will focus on the cancer risks associated with environmental and nutritional factors, as well as individual susceptibility. This ‘Network of Excellence’ ECNIS (environmental cancer, nutrition and individual susceptibility) is the latest group established to link experts from across the European Union (EU), under the European Research Area policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a booklet showing how European Union (EU) research is exploring links between a poor quality environments and health problems. “EU research on environment and health – expanding knowledge to improve our well-being”, is also available online.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
USING hair dyes does not cause cancer, according to an assessment of 79 hair-dye studies conducted in 11 countries, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Scientists from around the world found there was no evidence that personal hair-dye users were at increased risk of breast or bladder cancer, although they discovered a “borderline effect” for haematopoietic cancers, such as leukaemia.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCOTS may drink hard, smoke, and eat deep-fried pizzas with battered Mars bars, but obvious environmental factors do not explain why they are so prone to heart disease says a University of Edinburgh study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
POSTMENOPAUSAL women who consume even moderate amounts of alcohol may face an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a comprehensive US study. Research conducted at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard School of Public Health indicated that postmenopausal women who consumed less than one glass of wine or beer a day were more likely to develop breast cancer than women who did not consume alcohol.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the United States have developed a industrially-usable manufacturing technique that takes the itch out of wool, makes it whiter and makes it shrink-proof. Its “biopolishing” process involves pre-treating wool with a stable, activated peroxide, which is followed by a treatment with either serine or cysteine protease cellular enzymes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BANGLADESH’S first quarterly results following the abolition of textile trade quotas worldwide have been buoyed by the success of its knitwear industry in exporting to the European Union (EU). Prof Mustafizur Rahman, research director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has been quoted in Dhaka’s press saying that the knitwear sector had actually enabled the country to grow its garment exports from January to March by 9.5% compared with the same period in 2004.…