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KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN research network Eureka has developed a new formulated feed for baby sole, which hatch very young and so whose mouths cannot eat standard fish feeds. In nature, they feed on tiny artemia shrimps, but as their supply cannot be guaranteed, the project has created an artificial alternative.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN smokers are quitting at record rates due to smoking bans in public places and intolerance at home, said a recent study. Published in Statistics Canada’s Health Reports, it said between 2001 and 2003, 17% of smokers tried to quit, up from 1994-96’s 10%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ECOLOGICAL havoc that could be wreaked by careless undersea mineral extraction at the fringes of Europe’s continental shelf will be assessed by a Euro 15 million international study. The European Commission is funding the HERMES project, which involves 36 research institutes and nine small companies from 15 countries, led by Britain’s Southampton Oceanography Centre.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ACCORDING to global consumption figures, Israel is the world capital of teenage soft drink demand, with hot weather combined with a competitive market to create something of a utopia for drinks companies. An international survey of soft drinks consumption published by the Economist by 15 year olds of both sexes suggests that Israel has the world’s biggest teenage consumers of carbonated and still drinks, colas, sodas, juices and the like on a per capita basis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HEAVYWEIGHT European international consortium will spend Euro 20 million on trying to develop commercially-viable flat plastic light sources, that could be moulded to fit spaces in homes and offices. The OLLA project (‘high brightness Organic Light-emitting diodes for information technology and Lighting Applications’) aims to build on basic research into these materials.…

KEITH NUTHALL
ANDRIS Piebalgs, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for energy, has announced that energy conservation would be his top overall policy priority for his five-year term, rather than developing new energy sources. The Commission would this year launch a major ‘European Energy Efficiency Initiative’, he said, which should set the EU “an ambitious but realistic and achievable target” to save, by 2010, the equivalent of 70 million tonnes of oil per annum, saving the EU Euro 15 billion annually.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
CHINA’S massive economic growth and foreign infiltration is posing significant challenges for China’s paint and coatings industry according to Asiacoat.com, the website of the National Paint and Coatings Industry Information Centre. The country produced 1.64 million tonnes of paint and coatings for the whole of 2003, on average 22%, up from 2002 year-on-year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
DESIGNATED-driver initiatives do not reduce the number of drunk drivers on the roads, according to a new US study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The research found that as popular as the projects may be, very few designated drivers actually abstain from alcohol and in fact, it is the least drunk person in a group, as opposed to a sober one, that usually drives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN coatings giant BASF is heading a European Commission funded research project aiming to ensure the safe use of nanoparticles. Brussels is granting Euro 7 million from its ongoing Sixth Framework Programme for research to this Nanosafe2 project, which will examine the behaviour of tiny nanotechnology particles in all goods.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WHAT a woman eats during her pregnancy and lactation period may determine if her grandchildren will suffer from type 2 diabetes, according to a recent US study. The research published in the Journal of Physiology in Press showed that grandsons and granddaughters of female rats fed a poor diet during pregnancy and/or lactation were more likely to become obese and insulin resistant than grandchildren of females fed an adequate diet.…